The mussel larvae, called glochidia, must spend the first part of their lives feeding on the gills of the fish as temporary and relatively harmless parasites. Just spraying the glochidia into the ...

If a fish could turn itself inside out, the result would resemble a creature recently recorded on a stream bed in West Virginia. The video, shared Aug. 4 on Facebook, shows what seems to be a glob of ...

Moreover, the protective effect of glochidia infestation against bacterial disease sustained several months after the larvae had dropped off from the gills of fish. The higher the number of pearl ...

Ecologist Jonathan Young steered his rowboat alongside a rectangular container that was floating between two bright orange buoys. He reached under a plastic mesh covering and pulled out a large black ...

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Abrams Creek was once one of the most productive streams in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with a diverse range of ...

A mussel has been captured on video flapping its mantle in an attempt to lure a fish to involuntarily serve as a host for its larvae. The short clip, which was posted online by the West Virginia ...

As anglers cast lures into Minnesota’s lakes and rivers this time of year, native mussels lurking on the bottoms of those water bodies are also luring fish — with a surprising bait-and-switch move.

Nestled in the silt, sand or fine gravel of South Dakota’s rivers and streams live some of the state’s least appreciated yet most ecologically important creatures — freshwater mussels. Their names ...

Each year, for almost 20 years, the Corps of Engineers and other resource agencies on the Upper Mississippi River take a day and clean native mussels free from zebra mussels. No, they do not use scrub ...