The quagga mussel is a species of freshwater mussel native to the Aral, Black and Caspian seas and the Dnieper River drainage in Ukraine. It's closely related to the zebra mussel.

The quagga mussel, and the related zebra mussel, came from Eastern Europe to the Great Lakes in the 1980s. In the last dozen years or so, quagga mussels have been found in California, Nevada and Utah.

Finding replacements for bleach and chlorine. Quagga mussels are about the size of an adult human thumb, making them hard to detect early on. Researchers have documented up to 100,000 per square ...

The first-of-its-kind project is happening in Lake Michigan near Milwaukee, and Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The invasive quagga and zebra mussels have a $100,000 bounty on their "heads." ... Mussel infestations could increase costs that would have to be passed on to consumers.

Quagga mussel larvae was first detected in the Snake River near Twin Falls on Sept.18, 2023, by routine monitoring conducted by the ISDA. If nothing were done, ...

BANGOR, MI -- The history of the zebra mussel invasion reads like the victory march of a conquering power: The United Kingdom fell in the 1820s. Sweden fell in the 1920s. Canada and the United ...

TWIN FALLS, Idaho — Despite efforts to keep them out, the invasive quagga mussel is now in the Snake River. The Idaho State Department of Agriculture (ISDA) confirmed they found multiple samples ...

The rapid proliferation of dreissena rostriformis bugensis—the quagga mussel—has major implications for power plant reliability. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation installed a groundbreaking ...

The quagga mussel is a species of freshwater mussel native to the Aral, Black and Caspian seas and the Dnieper River drainage in Ukraine. It’s closely related to the zebra mussel.