Nature is just incredible. Check out this video of a wavy-rayed lampmussel displaying its fish lure. Female mussels use the technique to attract fish onto which they hope to release larvae. When a fish grabs the lure the mussel releases her larvae, which hitch a ride on the fish as a way to transport themselves upstream. © David & Laura Hughes | West Virginia Nature Conservancy
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Nature is just incredible. Check out this video of a wavy-rayed lampmussel displaying its fish lure. Female mussels use the technique to attract fish onto which they hope to release larvae. When a fish grabs the lure the mussel releases her larvae, which hitch a ride on the fish as a way to transport themselves upstream. © David & Laura Hughes | West Virginia Nature Conservancy
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This is a video clip of a Lampsilis mussel in the Conasauga River in northwest Georgia. She is displaying in order to attract a fish to come and snap at this lure, whereupon the parasitic mussel larvae, Glochidia, will attach to the skin and gills of the unsuspecting host fish! It is an amazing bit of trickery and affords a means of dispersal for this otherwise sedentary animal! After a while, the larval mussels drop off and begin a life of living in the substrate. This one was so noticeable tha
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This is a video clip of a Lampsilis mussel in the Conasauga River in northwest Georgia. She is displaying in order to attract a fish to come and snap at this lure, whereupon the parasitic mussel larvae, Glochidia, will attach to the skin and gills of the unsuspecting host fish! It is an amazing bit of trickery and affords a means of dispersal for this otherwise sedentary animal! After a while, the larval mussels drop off and begin a life of living in the substrate. This one was so noticeable tha
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It’s #wildlifewednesday, and we’re introducing you to the fascinating reproductive process of the pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis ovata), which includes a short parasitic stage in a fish’s gills. The pocketbook is a mussel species native to the Ohio River basin of the United States and its major tributaries, including the Upper Tennessee River Basin of Southwest Virginia. The species spawns in the fall as stream temperatures decrease and larvae (called glochidia) are brooded by females in gill sacs
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Freshwater Mussel TV - Wavy-rayed Lampmussel (Lampsilis fasciola) mantle lure display
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