For Texas rice farmers determined to hang onto their land, crawfish offer clear benefits. Omnivores and swamp creatures at heart, mudbugs thrive in the low, warm, plant-filled waters of rice paddies.

KAPLAN, La. — Josh Courville has harvested crawfish his whole life, but these days, he's finding a less welcome catch in some of the fields he manages in southern Louisiana. Snails. Big ones. For ...

Warm weather is shaping this year’s crawfish season, with a local farmer saying strong production and steady demand are ...

Jason Cogburn earlier this week watched as a crawfish farmer hammered a crawfish trap free from a 3-inch block of ice. Once the crawfish were liberated, they crawled around their cage as lively as ...

I set a minnow trap baited with chicken breast to see if it could attract and catch crawfish. Now it’s time to check the trap and see what showed up. Sometimes the simplest bait can bring surprising ...

As Michigan grapples with a never-before-seen invasion of red swamp "crayfish" threatening cities' infrastructures and ecosystems, mudbug experts from Lafayette have organized a Cajun culture lesson ...