
Despite mankind’s best efforts, the ultra-aggressive quagga mussel continues to spread unabated across our great land. Gorgeous Lake Tahoe is the latest victim, while the shellfish invasion’s in full swing over near Cleveland. And could the mussels even dim the Sin City lights someday? Nothing, it seems, can stop the quagga mussel, given the species prodigious talent for reproduction—a single critter can lay upwards of 40,000 eggs.
But that doesn’t mean we’ve given up trying. And that’s surely g
Published on June 10, 2009 08:00