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By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
The time is finally here to determine which invasive species you think is the worst for the Great Lakes. Will it be the water-filtering quagga mussel? Or the vampire-like sea lamprey? You know the drill. Fight and debate for your pick below.
By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
The quagga mussel and Eurasian watermilfoil proved to be worthy opponents in last week’s semi-finals tussle. At first, it seemed like the two water-cloggers were playing nice. But one of the lake invaders prevailed in the end. Was it the thick and slimy Eurasian Invasion? Or the highly adaptable and shielded Quagmeister?
By Alice Rossignol and Rachael Gleason
The sea lamprey and the alewife both fought successful battles and made it to the Great Lakes SmackDown! semi-finals last week. And it’s time to reveal whether the eel-like fish, which sucks the life out of its victims, or the alewife, a 6-inch silver fish that eats things like young fish, will prevail. And the winner is…
THE GREEN LAMP-REY! Thirty-five percent of those who filled out brackets guessed that the lamprey would dominate in Round 2.
The second round of invaders now duel in the SmackDown! semi-finals:
The Alewife, “Vlad the Impale-wife,” out-ate the White “The Incredible, Edible, Egg-eater” Perch in a gluttonous match. And the Sea “The Green Lamp-rey” sucked the win from the Round “Roundy Goboa” Goby, asserting its dominance as a more well-known and established invasive species.
Now the alewife and the sea lamprey face off!
See how the Great Lakes SmackDown! Round 1 champions fair in the next stage of the game. Will the water-clogging Eurasian watermilfoil outmatch the filter-feeding quagga mussel?
Click here for Round 2, Bracket 1:
We asked you to tell us which aquatic invasive species are the most ecologically destructive to the Great Lakes.
And Round 1 results are in.
Something smells a little fishy in this match. Well, actually, a lot fishy, because there’s a whole lot of both the alewife and the white perch in the Great Lakes.
Tell us which one you think is the most destructive to the Great Lakes.
It’s time for two of the Great Lakes’ most aggressive invaders to lake fight!
In corner number one we have the Sea Lamprey and in corner number two, the Round Goby!
Now the aquatic plant nuisances face off.
In corner number one, the Eurasian Watermilfoil – AKA “The Eurasian Invasion.” And in the other corner, we have a veteran from the Eastern world, the Curly-Leaf Pondweed, “The Leaf-O-Nater.”
It’s time for the first two competitors in the Great Lakes SmackDown! to flex their mussels: The zebra mussel vs. the quagga mussel.