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

After quagga mussels were detected in the Snake River, the Idaho State Dept. of Agriculture set up boat decontamination stations in Twin Falls, as seen here in September 2023.

To date, quagga mussels have been documented in a few inland lakes in Michigan and New York and in the Mississippi River. However no study has been conducted on their potential impacts.

Quagga mussels, native to Russia and Ukraine, were discovered in the Great Lakes in 1989, around the same time as their infamous cousin species, zebra mussels.

A boat propeller encrusted with invasive quagga mussels that was found in Nevada is displayed during a demonstration of a boat inspection for reporters, Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2020, at a boat launch in ...

Quagga Mussels Invade Idaho Tiny, highly invasive mussels have been found in the Snake River in Idaho, prompting an urgent response from officials. The mussels can devastate ecosystems, ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The invasive quagga and zebra mussels have a $100,000 bounty on their "heads." The U.S. government is offering the six-figure prize for the best suggestion on how to stop ...

The quagga mussels found this year were adults; the size and number of mussels found indicate the species has been in the lake for two to three years, Schmidt said.

The invasive quagga mussel rapidly dominates habitats, outcompetes native mussels, and alters water quality, but its filtration benefits are limited by temperature and cyanobacteria species ...

Quagga mussels, finger-sized mollusks with voracious appetites, have become the dominant invasive species in the lower Great Lakes over the past 30 years, according to biologists.

Quagga mussels were introduced to the Great Lakes in the late 1980s, likely as a result of ballast water discharge by ships from Europe, and spread quickly to other U.S. waterbodies via ...

Hannah Shramm inspects David Black's boat for quagga mussels at the Daniels Port of Entry checkpoint near Heber City on July 1, 2016. Quagga mussels entered Utah's lakes in 2007.