You may have heard that various kinds of invasive plants and animals create problems for the species that are native to an area. In the case of the quagga mussel, which only grows to the size of a ...

MADISON — The zebra mussels that have wreaked ecological havoc on the Great Lakes are harder to find these days — not because they are dying off, but because they are being replaced by a cousin, the ...

The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation has launched a challenge to stop invasive mussels that cost more than $1 billion a year.

Lake Erie's zebra and quagga mussel plague has gone nationwide.An outbreak of the invasive aquatic mollusks is worsening in the upper Great Lakes where the population has tripled in the last three ...

Oregon officials have discovered invasive quagga mussels on a pontoon boat that was transported to the state from Nevada, marking the first such finding of the year. An official from the Oregon ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Joe Ford cleans mussels from a basket in the cooling water eductor bay on Feb. 16, 2022, at Hoover Dam on the Arizona/Nevada ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California State Parks’ Division of Boating and Waterways is offering grant funding to prevent the further spread of quagga and zebra mussels into California’s waterways. Funded ...

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture is yet to find invasive quagga mussels in the Middle Snake River as annual water sampling continues. Crews detected quagga mussel veligers, or larvae, in the ...

Treatment of a stretch of the Snake River near Twin Falls, Idaho, for invasive quagga mussels is slated to start Sept. 30 and conclude around Oct. 10, state officials announced. The Idaho State ...

AUSTIN, Texas (News Release) - The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) reports that invasive quagga mussels have been detected for the first time in Texas. The quagga mussel discovery was made ...

Quaggas, which resembled zebras in the front and horses in the back, once roamed South Africa in large herds, specifically in the Karoo and southern Free State. European settlers did not want quaggas ...