The Buzz
Wasp recruited for Michigan stink bug fight
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Sometimes you have to fight invasive species with outside help.
Wildlife
Fish guts show changes on the Lake Huron menu
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Alewives were once an important food source for top predators and popular gamefish such as salmon and lake trout. But Great Lakes populations of the small fish started to decline in the early 1980s.
bees
New non-native bee discovered in Illinois, Minnesota
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Scientists have found a new species of non-native wild bee in Illinois and Minnesota.
Capital News Service
Mighty 4-inch crayfish can be bold or shy
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Crayfish have personalities—and they can shape how well the critters can escape from their predators, such as largemouth bass.
Fish
The dose is in the bite: silent effects of parasitic sea lamprey
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The research could have implications for estimating how many lake trout are in the Great Lakes.
Wildlife
Michigan lawmakers push for moose hunt in national park
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Four lawmakers want the Michigan House of Representatives to adopt a resolution urging the National Park Service “to establish a moose tag lottery hunt” to help control the island’s growing moose population.
Asian carp
Favorite food not on the menu? No problem for Asian carp – they eat almost anything
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Study says lack of a picky-palate could help them spread and disrupt native ecosystems.
Catch of the Day
Great Lakes denizen gets nationwide attention
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Cleaner water, fishing limits, stocking programs are credited with beginnings of a recovery.
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White pelicans extend their Great Lakes range, study finds
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The species “is undergoing a dramatic expansion of its breeding range in North America,” the study published in the journal Ontario Birds said.
Wildlife
Invasive mussels challenge commercial whitefish fishing in the Great Lakes
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The spread of invasive quagga and zebra mussels in the Great Lakes has altered the ecology of lakes, including disrupting the food web in the lakes. Commercial whitefish fishers are facing challenges in their industry that may be the result of changes to the food web brought about by the presence of the invasive mussels.