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Originally Posted by left of center
At this point I wonder if its wise to introduce some of the Zebra mussel's natural predators into the lake ecosystem? We haven't really had much luck in the past with introducing foreign species into the Great Lakes system, but short of the complete ecological collapse that we are essentially seeing and facing, what other options are there?
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Well the lake really is not "dead" but lacking microscopic natural photosynthesis diatoms and other larger copepod like species.
But there are many examples of introducing exotic predators to deal with another invasive species.
We introduced the Asian Lady bug that can bite a person and is not as effective as a natural Lady Bug that is harmless to humans.
I would easily say there are more examples of introducing invasive predators to eliminate invasive species than there are successes.
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