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No bigger than a thumbnail, yet this mussel is a huge pain http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1214431071
With no natural predators and a high reproductive rate, the quagga mussel has become a growing worry throughout the United States, clogging municipal water pipes, taking food from native species and possibly stimulating the growth of the deadly bacteria that cause botulism.... The quagga — which is even hardier than its better-known cousin, the zebra mussel — started out in the Caspian or Black Sea, reached the Great Lakes in the ballast of ships, and in early 2007 hitched its way West on industrial and recreational boat hulls.
The mussels, in densities of up to thousands per square yard, cling to boats, docks and even other shellfish...
Scientists are especially concerned with the quagga's potential ability to invigorate toxic botulinum bacteria. The quagga mussels deplete oxygen from the water, creating ideal conditions for the bacterial spore, which exists naturally in the water, to vegetate and become dangerous.
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... and the deoxygenated water is lethal
to most aquatic species.
They are as evil as their name sounds:
Quagga!
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