🔥 Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) use lures to attract fish, which they then parasitize with their larvae (glochidia). : r/NatureIsFuckingLit

How Mussels Fool Fish Into Carrying Their Parasitic Babies

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

🔥 Freshwater Mussels (Unionidae) use lures to attract fish, which they then parasitize with their larvae (glochidia). : r/NatureIsFuckingLit

Alluring larvae: Competition to attract fish drives species diversity among freshwater mussels

Gotcha! 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

A video: How freshwater mussels attract fish, by Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, Land Stewardship

Frontiers First Immunodetection of Sensory and Nervous Systems of Parasitic Larvae (Glochidia) of Freshwater Bivalve Nodularia douglasiae

The bizarre strategies of hitch-hiking clams

This Parasitic Mussel Pretends to Be a Fish

Gotcha! 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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels