State officials may have solved the puzzle of how zebra mussels got into the Colorado River. On July 3, Colorado Parks and ...

Zebra mussels are similar to another invasive mollusk, the quagga mussel, which has not been detected in Colorado’s lakes and ...

Discoveries of the invasive and damaging zebra mussels have been piling up in Western Colorado, with recent detections in ...

Water managers and state wildlife officials last year hoped the discovery of a microscopic zebra mussel larva in the Colorado ...

Colorado Parks and Wildlife let Coloradans know that zebra mussels have been found in a private body of water in Eagle County ...

Photo of a zebra mussel veliger discovered by CPW in the Colorado River near Grand Junction after routine testing in early July. A veliger is the mussel’s free-floating (planktonic) larval stage ...

According to the Post Independent, Colorado Parks and Wildlife found the lone mussel larvae — called a "veliger" — along the ...

A zebra mussel veliger discovered by Colorado Parks and Wildlife in the Colorado River near Grand Junction after routine testing in early July. A veliger is the mussel’s free-floating ...

No adult zebra mussels have been found in the Colorado River. That’s good news for the river: Once adult populations are established, eradication is nearly impossible and can cost millions of ...

The main stem Colorado River discoveries piled on top of a confirmed “large number” of adult zebra mussels in a private body of water in western Eagle County, and two more positive larvae ...

Zebra mussel veligers, the free-floating larval stage of the mussel, have been detected in the Colorado River and Government Highline Canal in Mesa County, which could have serious repercussions for ...

Zebra mussel veligers, the larval stage of zebra mussels, were found earlier this month during routine testing on the Government Highline Canal and in subsequent testing of the Colorado River.