It also brings the dreaded quagga mussel. The destructive aquatic invasive species infest lakes and reservoirs, typically ...

By all accounts, freshwater mussels are boring creatures. From the time they fall off their host fish as a larva and settle ...

An asteroid strike 66 million years ago caused millions of species to go extinct—including many mollusks. By studying the ...

Christopher Barnhart, a malacologist—or scientist who specializes in mollusks—at Missouri State ... Once mama mussel blasts the fish with all of her larvae, the tiny creatures latch onto ...

Lance Butler, a senior scientist with the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD), and his team cultivate up to 50,000 freshwater mussels annually in the Schuylkill, deploying them as tiny but powerful ...

Another sign oysters are doing better is their “spat sets” — the process of the tiny larvae (spat) attaching to a hard surface so they can grow into mature oysters. A high number of spat ...

TPWD workers first found zebra mussel larvae in plankton samples at the lake in November 2024; they also discovered some larvae near a road bridge that crosses the lake, and the dam on the eastern ...

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Zebra mussels are small, bivalve mollusks that thrive in freshwater ... large ships can pick up these larvae—and even adult zebra mussels—and transport them across the ocean,” Nickell ...

This is possible because the L3 larvae are present in mollusk slime. For instance, if a slug or snail traverses a leaf of lettuce, leaving a slime trail in its wake, the leaf can be contaminated ...