Seems like a normal underwater encounter: largemouth bass goes after a minnow...right? Wrong! The little fish is a bivalve, a mussel, that mimics a minnow to spray its parasitic larvae into the gills of an actual fish. 🎥@USFWS B. Billings R. Hagerty
USFWS NCTC

Oct 22, 2023 · 12:09 PM UTC

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Outrageous!
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I have read about this bivalve but never saw it in action. Known as the Alewife Floater bivalve in New England.
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