How to Use quagga in a Sentence

quagga

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• The arrival of zebra and quagga mussels led to the collapse of alewives and king salmon in Lake Huron in the early 2000s.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• Utah law prohibits the transport of quagga mussels — dead or alive — through the state.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Some of the key species of concern are zebra and quagga mussels, Eurasian water milfoil and spiny water fleas.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 June 2018
• Mussels, zebra and quagga mussels, to be exact, have invaded the Lakes - and the wrecks themselves.
  — CBS News, 10 July 2018
• Some of the species on the governors’ list have been in the headlines before, including water-gulping salt cedar trees and quagga mussels.
  — Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2018
• Larry Toal had heard the National Museum of Ireland owned a stuffed quagga.
  — Paul Muldoon, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2021
• In 2007, the quagga was detected in the Colorado River, apparently after hitching a ride on the bottom of a boat or a piece of equipment that was used in Lake Mead.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
• None has yet demonstrated the ability to kill quagga mussels.
  — Lindsey Botts, The Arizona Republic, 25 Apr. 2022
• Settele is learning to make a living despite the quagga infestation by focusing his business on brown and lake trout — two species that keep the clients rolling in.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• But none, Egan writes, have been more destructive than the innocuous-seeming zebra and quagga mussels.
  — Robert Moor, New York Times, 23 May 2017
• Pests that have been in the headlines before include water-gulping salt cedar trees and quagga mussels, which clog water and sewer pipelines.
  — Fox News, 15 Mar. 2018
• Sampling last fall found larvae of quagga or zebra mussels at Tiber Reservoir in north-central Montana.
  — Keith Ridler, idahostatesman, 20 Feb. 2018
• Past attempts to bring a species back from extinction through selective breeding for a specific appearance include the quagga and the auroch.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 11 June 2017
• Each Junior Mint-size quagga can filter up to a liter of water per day, stripping away the plankton that for thousands of years directly and indirectly sustained the lake's native fish.
  — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2011
• Asian clams don’t have the ability to attach themselves to hard surfaces, unlike quagga mussels, an invasive species that can clog pipes, colonize boats and starve fishing holes.
  — AZCentral.com, 18 Aug. 2021
• For example, the invasive quagga mussel, which has drastically changed the food webs, still dominates the lake bottoms.
  — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 12 Aug. 2022
• But less welcome critters soon followed: sea lampreys, alewives, spiny water fleas, and the poster bivalves for ecological trouble, zebra and quagga mussels.
  — Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 3 July 2018
• Crichton speculated about recovering far older DNA than the quagga’s by looking in the guts of bloodsucking insects preserved in amber that had formed millions of years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs.
  — The Economist, 4 July 2020
• Zebra and quagga mussels, two distinct but closely related species, pose an unlikely threat to the Pacific Northwest.
  — OregonLive.com, 10 Feb. 2018
• Zebra and quagga mussels have been migrating to water ways across North America since their accidental introduction to the Great Lakes decades ago.
  — Terry Wickstrom, The Denver Post, 7 Mar. 2017
• Like the invasive zebra mussels that have proliferated in many Texas lakes in recent times, quagga mussels are native to Eastern Europe.
  — Matt Williams, Dallas News, 22 May 2021
• Three years after quagga mussels were discovered in Lake Michigan, zebra mussels still made up more than 98% of the lake's invasive mussel population.
  — Dan Egan, jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Steel wrecks are corroding, and invasive quagga mussels have colonized the surfaces of both steel and wooden shipwrecks, speeding degradation.
  — Talia Soglin, chicagotribune.com, 8 July 2021
• Invasive nonnative mollusks in Utah, such as New Zealand mudsnail or quagga mussel, hitched rides on fishing gear and boats, but the boreal top snail would have no such opportunity.
  — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
• Invasive zebra and quagga mussels have spread so pervasively throughout the Great Lakes, their filtration of nutrients from lake water has caused ripple effects throughout the food web.
  — Keith Matheny, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2017
• Another invader, one that’s threatening the state’s water infrastructure, is the quagga mussel.
  — Lauren Williams, Orange County Register, 9 June 2017
• All watercraft including non-motorized boats must be inspected when coming into Montana to prevent zebra and quagga mussels from becoming established in the state.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 17 July 2021
• Legislators heeded concerns about the aircraft bringing invasive species — specifically the zebra and quagga mussels, which have ravaged the nation’s lakes — and making Colorado’s already overcrowded lakes and reservoirs unsafe.
  — Jesse Paul, The Denver Post, 6 Apr. 2017
• Today in Lake Michigan, quagga mussels, Eastern European invaders generally smaller than a stamp, reign over an upended underwater ecosystem.
  — Genevieve Bookwalter, chicagotribune.com, 4 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024