The dreaded, destructive golden mussel has become an urgent topic among San Joaquin Valley water agencies prompting near ...

RANCHO SECO – Before you go in the water at Rancho Seco Lake, you need to let a dog sniff your boat. This is all part of the fight against the invasive golden mussel that has been detected in several ...

Mussels clean the water from pollutants but all of those pollutants pass through their body. The threshold the mussels can ...

Despite CPW’s best efforts to eradicate zebra mussels from various bodies of water on the Western Slope, 2025 saw the mussels discovered in the Colorado River. It was a good year to be an invasive ...

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If you’re a mussel, this is basically your worst nightmare. A set of sea stars descend on a pier, looking for food. When they find a mussel, they go to work. This video is from the viewpoint of a tiny ...

When you think about shellfish, “devious” is probably not the first word that comes to mind. That is, unless you’ve met the parasitic mussel Lampsilis, the trickiest thing on two shells. To attract ...

Freshwater mussels function as nature’s water treatment plants. Each animal can filter up to 600 gallons of water per month. And when working together, they can dramatically clean the water of the ...

A mussel bed along Northern California's Dillon Beach is as healthy and biodiverse as it was about 80 years ago, when two ...

SPICER — Oscar Oakes and his crew at Oakes Lawn Service and Dock Removal in Spicer have been helping residents on Green Lake pull their docks for the season, and this year is no different than the ...