ALIEN INVADERS ATTACK ARIZONA

Aliens!!!  Attack of the Aliens!  Are you prepared?  Get your guns, your wife, and your children (not necessarily in that order), and hide out in the cellar.  This is a no brainer.  If they flew down from Mars and attacked us for our natural resources, we would know how to act.  So why don't we know how to act with a real invasion?  And yes they are attacking us for our natural resources.  It is real and it is slow.  Do not be fooled by their size, or the fact they taste good in butter.  They are destroying our wetlands and leaving behind a mess.  Their real impact on Arizona is still unknown.  We are seeing some damage here and there, but we have not seen the desolation just yet.  I don't plan to find out what it is going to look like.  I am going after them and I am not hiding in the cellar.


Here are some of the early signs.  No vegetation in the water (because it has been eaten by the crayfish).  We think to ourselves, "What is the big deal?"  Nothing right?  Nothing, unless of course you are a frog.  A Chiricahua Leopard Frog to be exact.  You use the Grass in the water to hide from your natural predator; Birds.  Cranes to be exact.  No place to hide here.  The frogs use the grass to make it difficult for the cranes to find them.  The grass also offers a safe haven for tadpoles, minnows, and all sorts of  insects.  Feeding the cranes is not necessarily bad.  However, having them destroy their own food supply, is.  Who knows how the crayfish got here?  They may have been introduced years ago to help control the vegetation.  They might have thought it would be food for the fish and cranes alike.  I am sure they did not anticipate this.  None of us did, but that does not help us now.  We have to act and take this back from the invader laying and waiting here.  This does not belong to them, it belongs to the frogs and the birds.  Does this look like a harmful invader?

Don't be fooled.