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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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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This is NOT A FISH! #mussel #bassfishing #lampsilis | Wild Heart
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This is NOT A FISH! #mussel #bassfishing #lampsilis | Wild Heart
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Luring mechanism of the Wavyrayed Lampmussel (3 of 3)
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Luring mechanism of the Wavyrayed Lampmussel (3 of 3)
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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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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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Freshwater Mussel TV - Wavy-rayed Lampmussel (Lampsilis fasciola) mantle lure display
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The shell of the mussel (Mytilus) filters water: the movement of the outgrowths of the mantle is visible between the shell valves, extreme close-up.
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Mussel Mantle Lures Larval Hosts — Biological Strategy — AskNature
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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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The albino mussel (Mytilus) filters the water: movement of the white outgrowths of the mantle can be seen between the shell valves, close-up.
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Plain Pocketbook Mussel displaying
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Albino mussel (Mytilus): the white edge of the mantle is visible between the shell valves, extreme close-up.
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Plain Pocketbook mussel (Lampsilis cardium) displaying fish lure
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Natural Fish Lure Lampsilis Mussel and Bass
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Freshwater Mussel TV - Mantle Display of Lampsilis fasciola (The Sequel)
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北美水域中的“美丽蚌属”（Lampsilis）有一种不逊色于双盘吸虫的拟
Aug 30, 2019
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2025 HIGHLIGHT: The freshwater mussel team produced about 75,000 yellow lampmussels (Lampsilis cariosa) using just six wild broodstock females. More than 20,000 survived primary and secondary culture and were stocked out on a pond at Joseph Manning to overwinter in baskets. They also successfully cultured Eastern Elliptio (Elliptio complanata) mussels indoors until they were stocked out on the pond in baskets. Out of the about 7,500 individuals that arrived, over 7,300 made it to the pond basket
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Lampsillus & Bass Host
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Outdoors Maryland | 🏆 And the award for weirdest reproductive strategy goes to… Freshwater mussels in the genus Lampsilis begin life as parasites. To survive,... | Instagram
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Life of a green-lipped mussel
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sciencelearn.org.nz
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NZ Basic Fishing | Tutorial | How to use mussels for bait
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Freshwater Mussel TV - Dwarf wedgemussel Mantle Lure
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Gnarly Structure Fishing With MUSSEL Lure!!
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The albino mussel (Mytilus) filters the water: movement of the white outgrowths of the mantle can be seen between the shell valves, extreme close-up.
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