But please, if someone could only answer my 7 year old sons question " Daddy, how come there's only crawdaddies and no crawmomies or crawbabies??"
Your 7 yr old is not alone. Others have pondered that very same question. I found an article that explains it. It is an informative and a bit tounge in cheek. Here's an excerpt:
"...Like crawdads for instance. If crawfish are all dads, then how does the species reproduce without any crawmoms?..."
Bottom line is that it seems these are all nicknames for crawfish or crayfish. So Crawdads is not the real name for these creatures.
Anyone remember the old Beverly Hillbillies episode with Granny and the smoked crawdads? Hippies thought the Hillbillies acted the way they did from smoking crawdads and they wanted to smoke some too. Way funny. Anyway, check the article linked below.
Joe Kerr
CrawFish (not Crawdads)