While collecting 492 Iris virginica (I was the counter) plus miscellaneous plants from an overgrown parking lot patch at Sheldon Lake, we disturbed a few crawfish.
They didn't like being picked up, but they were carefully relocated to a plant grow-out pond.
Ninety-two iris sprigs went back into the same mud bed. The rest will be planted near a Sheldon pond next week with the help of high school volunteers.
I would suggest the students wear shorts and sunblock.
Today in the sunshine with the temperature around 80, I was a smelly, sweaty mess after about 15 minutes. And I wasn't even one of the volunteers wielding a sharp shooter shovel.
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