Xref: utzoo alt.great-lakes:833 sci.bio:5043 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!ox.com!msen.com!emv From: emv@msen.com (Ed Vielmetti) Newsgroups: alt.great-lakes,sci.bio,mi.misc Subject: zebra mussels spotted in Escanaba, MI Message-ID: Date: 28 May 91 05:10:51 GMT Sender: usenet@ox.com (Usenet News Administrator) Followup-To: alt.great-lakes,sci.bio Organization: MSEN, Inc. Ann Arbor MI Lines: 26 zebra mussels are little critters that hitch-hiked their way in from Europe. they're prolific and enjoy making their homes on things like boats, piers, water intake valves, and the like. they're bad news all around -- the city of Monroe lost their water feed from Lake Erie when the entire pipe got encrusted with the things. A recent article in the Detroit Freep said they'd made it all the way up to Escanaba in northern Lake Michigan. Some questions: - what's the scientific name of the zebra mussel? - who is doing research on them these days? I'd expect it would be a hot topic, given their potential economic impacts on the Great Lakes region, but a cursory search of the literature didn't yield any hits on "zebra". - these things are supposed to be widespread in Europe. How do they cope with them there? thanks. followups to sci.bio.alt.great-lakes. -- Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com