How to Use quagga mussel in a Sentence

quagga mussel

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• For a creature that’s only the girth of a fingernail, the damage that quagga mussels wreak is outsize.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• Invasive zebra and quagga mussels also cannot grow when calcium levels – needed to form shells – are too low.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• The state has been using copper poisoning that is the industry standard for treating water for quagga mussels.
  — Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
• Once quagga mussels invade, few solutions exist to eradicate them.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• Shipwreck hunters have been searching the lakes with more urgency in recent years out of concerns that invasive quagga mussels are slowly destroying wrecks.
  — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
• The wreck’s exterior is covered with quagga mussels and the upper cabins are gone, Ehorn said, but the hull looks intact and the oak interiors are still in good shape.
  — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 15 Feb. 2026
• Two other species of invasive mollusks, the zebra mussel and quagga mussel, have entered California over the past 20 years.
  — Paul Rogers, Mercury News, 8 May 2026
• The ship’s resting place deep underwater helped preserve key features, like bow clamps and belaying pins, by limiting the growth of invasive quagga mussels, as noted in the release.
  — Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 15 Aug. 2025
• The invasive quagga mussels found in an Idaho river in 2023 were microscopic.
  — Alex Music august 17, Idaho Statesman, 17 Aug. 2025
• Florida's effort to eradicate Burmese pythons has become well known and the Great Lakes region is struggling to prevent the spread of zebra and quagga mussels.
  — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA Today, 28 May 2026
• However, the ones already in the Great Lakes, like zebra and quagga mussels and the emerald ash borer, are still causing substantial ecological and economic harm.
  — Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 23 Jan. 2026
• Nunez-Mir said there are local invaders already well known for their negative impacts, like the zebra and quagga mussels in Lake Michigan that damage infrastructure and disrupt the food chain.
  — Madeline King, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2026
• The water is actually unnaturally clear because more than 400 trillion invasive Black Sea quagga mussels have taken over the bottom of the lake.
  — Theodore J. Karamanski, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2026
• Glenneda Zuiderveld had voted against funding the eradication of invasive quagga mussels from the Snake River and against law enforcement budgets, Naerebout said.
  — Idaho Statesman, 13 Apr. 2026
• Today, quagga mussels are present in the lower Colorado River and the canals of the Central Arizona Project and Salt River Project.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• From Centennial Park to Shoshone Falls, two segments of the river — divided by Pillar Falls — tested quagga mussel-free this year, officials said.
  — Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025
• In 2014, quagga mussels infiltrated the water pumps of Cave Creek, racking up a bill of nearly $50,000 for emergency repairs.
  — Shi En Kim, AZCentral.com, 13 Mar. 2026
• Florida's years-long effort to eradicate Burmese pythons and the Great Lakes region's ongoing struggle with zebra and quagga mussels illustrate what happens when early intervention fails, including high costs and potentially endless containment measures.
  — Moná Thomas, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026