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When mussels attack
Plumas News ^ | September 3, 2017 | Stacy Fisher, Staff Writer

Posted on 09/03/2017 8:11:31 PM PDT by Utilizer

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To: Utilizer

21 posted on 09/04/2017 6:07:34 AM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Garth Tater

Any idea what that thing was? I’ve a feeling that info might come in handy here in the not-too-distant future.


22 posted on 09/04/2017 6:34:32 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: KosmicKitty

Well, but the same is true about oysters and crabs, and people eat them notwithstanding.


23 posted on 09/04/2017 6:38:18 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

No, sorry. But I imagine whatever it was will be along. Nature is not one to pass by a good meal.


24 posted on 09/04/2017 6:38:57 AM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

As I understand it, it is pronounced “byoot”, as in “She’s a real beaut”, or “Da two yoots”...
But I am not an area native, so I could be wrong. :)


25 posted on 09/04/2017 6:57:02 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: Garth Tater

Hmm. Well, I imagine you are right but it would have been helpful to know so some of the locals could have begun importing it into the area to help with combating this upcoming threat.


26 posted on 09/04/2017 7:04:35 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

Belongs in Sven & Ole Land...


27 posted on 09/04/2017 7:32:03 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: Utilizer

According to Wiki, zebra mussels are eaten by crayfish, smallmouth bass, and some species of birds, although it doesn’t name the birds.

http://www.biokids.umich.edu/critters/Dreissena_polymorpha/ has a list of fish that will eat them.


28 posted on 09/04/2017 8:58:43 AM PDT by Ellendra (Those who kill without reason cannot be reasoned with.)
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To: Utilizer

I think it’s the source that matters. Zebra mussels filter the water. Probably oysters too, but I’m not so sure about crabs.


29 posted on 09/04/2017 10:31:35 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspiration)
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To: Ellendra

Harvest them and dry them out. Grind them finely for fertilizer.


30 posted on 09/04/2017 10:59:09 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Hatteras

Ok... That must have really stretched out the creative skills of someone in Marketing.


31 posted on 09/04/2017 11:09:51 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: Ellendra

Some particular species of birds might be the answer here, as we see quite a few during the migrating season.


32 posted on 09/04/2017 11:18:27 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: KosmicKitty

Unfortunately, crabs eat decaying tissues such as dead bodies, which is why people are warned not to eat them for 2 to 3 years after there has been a shipwreck close to shore.


33 posted on 09/04/2017 11:26:28 AM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer
Unfortunately, crabs eat decaying tissues such as dead bodies, which is why people are warned not to eat them for 2 to 3 years after there has been a shipwreck close to shore.

In WWII, the Norwegians sank the heavy cruiser Blucher with heavy casualties

during the invasion of Oslo. The Norges didn't eat local mackerel for years for the same reason.

34 posted on 09/04/2017 1:10:07 PM PDT by Oatka
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To: Utilizer

Like turkey vultures around there parts eat road kill - but I’d have to be awfully hunger to eat one of those.

How about lobsters - what do they eat?


35 posted on 09/04/2017 3:10:28 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspiration)
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To: KosmicKitty

Lobsters eat mostly rock scrapings, but bottom-sludge is an acceptable substitute if the local rocks have been cleared.
Basically, scum-snackers. Algae and the related simple-celled growths as the main food source.


36 posted on 09/04/2017 6:30:16 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

Amazing how lobsters can turn that into the most wonderful meat, especially when it’s dipped in lemon butter :-)


37 posted on 09/05/2017 6:39:50 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspiration)
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To: KosmicKitty

Indeed. I also must admit to a small source of amusement from that when the topic of conversation happens to swing around to whether or not you could ever get hungry enough to eat a bug, and I ask them if they ever had lobster and if so whether or not they liked it.
Then watched their reaction when I tell them they ate a bug. *grin*


38 posted on 09/05/2017 1:58:05 PM PDT by Utilizer (Bacon A'kbar! - In world today are only peaceful people, and the mohammedems trying to kill them)
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To: Utilizer

I know they’re bugs that I’ve in the water - but they just taste so gosh darn good!!


39 posted on 09/05/2017 3:39:10 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspiration)
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To: Utilizer

Speaking of bugs - having a crawfish boil tonight for dinner. I’m a Yankee - but I do love Southern cooking :-)


40 posted on 09/05/2017 3:53:39 PM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspiration)
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