Can you spot the mussel? 🥸 The Plain Pocketbook mussel tricks fish by disguising part of its shell as a lure that looks like a small fish or other prey. When a fish tries to bite the lure, the mussel releases tiny baby mussels that attach harmlessly to the fish’s gills or fins. They stay there until they grow big enough and then drop off. These freshwater mussels have all kinds of lures, from fish-shaped to wormy, and even crawfish-like. 📸Calvin Rezac | Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
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Can you spot the mussel? 🥸 The Plain Pocketbook mussel tricks fish by disguising part of its shell as a lure that looks like a small fish or other prey. When a fish tries to bite the lure, the mussel releases tiny baby mussels that attach harmlessly to the fish’s gills or fins. They stay there until they grow big enough and then drop off. These freshwater mussels have all kinds of lures, from fish-shaped to wormy, and even crawfish-like. 📸Calvin Rezac | Mississippi Museum of Natural Science
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Zebra mussel | Freshwater Invader, Aquatic Pest & Invasive Species | Britannica
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Come closer.... a little closer....BOOM! 💥 Did you know freshwater mussels shoot their fertilized eggs (glochidia) at passing fish? The glochidia hitch a ride on the host fish's gills for several weeks before dropping to the stream bed to start their new life. Our native freshwater mussels are the foundation of healthy rivers and streams. They clean waterways, stabilize aquatic ecosystems, and have the coolest life cycle around. Video shows a largemouth bass grabbing a plain pocketbook mussel l
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Come closer.... a little closer....BOOM! 💥 Did you know freshwater mussels shoot their fertilized eggs (glochidia) at passing fish? The glochidia hitch a ride on the host fish's gills for several weeks before dropping to the stream bed to start their new life. Our native freshwater mussels are the foundation of healthy rivers and streams. They clean waterways, stabilize aquatic ecosystems, and have the coolest life cycle around. Video shows a largemouth bass grabbing a plain pocketbook mussel l
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This is so cool! This video shows a plain pocketbook mussel in Big Darby Creek, Battelle-Darby Metro Park. The “lure” that this species of mussel uses looks like a fish, and other predator fish investigate and try to eat this lure, with the mussel releasing its glochidia (“baby mussels”) that immediately attach to the fish’s gills. The glochidia act like benign parasites and are then carried elsewhere, eventually detaching from the host fish. That’s how mussels get upstream. Different mussel spe
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This is so cool! This video shows a plain pocketbook mussel in Big Darby Creek, Battelle-Darby Metro Park. The “lure” that this species of mussel uses looks like a fish, and other predator fish investigate and try to eat this lure, with the mussel releasing its glochidia (“baby mussels”) that immediately attach to the fish’s gills. The glochidia act like benign parasites and are then carried elsewhere, eventually detaching from the host fish. That’s how mussels get upstream. Different mussel spe
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