Dear G. Tom;-
    I figured if anyone knew about the Zebras, it would be you. If they are in
the Ohio AND the Lakes, they must also be in the Mississippi system. Is there a
next step? Is there a predater that wouldn't be worse than the Zebra? Do
Muskrats like 'em?
    What controls them in their European habitat?  Temperature? Food? Rap
music?
    Are they cyclic? Do they bloom, then retreat? Bagworms do.
            Art

G Thomas Watters wrote:

> Art:
>
> The war is over. They won.
>
> Actually, the zebra mussel population was way down (in numbers) in the Ohio
> River last year according to the Ohio River Islands National Refuge folks,
> who have copious data on the native and zebra mussels in the Ohio. Maybe
> your pigs "deposited" something in the river at Cincinnati...
>
> We did a study several years ago in the western basin of Lake Erie looking
> at old mussel bed sites, mostly around the Bass Islands and off
> Davis-Bessie. These were areas that historically had supported large mussel
> beds. In a week of diving, not a single living native mussel was found,
> only zebras.
>
> At 09:43 PM 4/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >Dear All;-
> >     I don understand. I ask a perfectly crafted shell question and get
> >no answers. Was hapnin'? Did I burden you all when the Flying Pigs
> >returned to Cincinnati this year? Did I insult yer interest when Archie
> >Toothless (The Giant Squid that lives in my basement) had to be rushed
> >to the emergency room for a herniated sucker? I did not! I did not even
> >comment when Ross talked about snow in Canada. Everyone knows the whole
> >country is listed as a sub-tropical paradise.
> >     All what I want to know is how the war goes with the Zebra Mussels.
> >     Don't some of the rest of you want to know?
> >             Q-Man
>
> G. Thomas Watters, PhD
> Curator of Molluscs
> Museum of Biological Diversity
> Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology
> The Ohio State University
> 1315 Kinnear Road
> Columbus, OH 43212
> v: 614-292-6170
> f: 614-292-7774
>
> Visit the Molluscs Division at:
> http://www.biosci.ohio-state.edu/~molluscs/OSUM2