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

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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

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

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

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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

🔥 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

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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

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

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

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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

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

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

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

This Parasitic Mussel Pretends to Be a Fish

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

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Aquatic Journal

🔥 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

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

FMCS - Freshwater Mussels

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

Glochidia extraction by fish host (Ambloplites constellatus) from