When it is unable to hold the two haves of its shell tightly shut together.
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No, dead blue mussel shells cannot grow. Growth in mussels occurs only when they are alive, as they obtain nutrients from their environment to build and expand their shells. Once a blue mussel dies, its biological processes cease, and the shell remains in its last formed state without any further growth.
A freshwater mussel is also called a unionid mussel or naiad.
Yes, a mussel is a decomposer. Their eating habits come from dead plants and pieces of animals. Decomposers metabolize organic matter, and release elements.
I have an 1834 Springfield mussel loader shot gun and would like to know the value of it, and am willing to sell it.
A bearded mussel is a mussel found off the coasts of Britain, Latin name Modiolus barbatus, also known as the horse mussel or the horse-bearded mussel.
A mother zebra mussel pushes out an egg that grows into a another zebra mussel.
Yes, mussel is high in cholesterol. In 3 oz of mussel there is 48 mg of cholesterol.
The mussel is a bivalve mollusk. When the tide rushes in, that mussel will clam up.
The homophones for "mussel" are "muscle" and "muzzle."
Duck mussel was created in 1758.
Blue mussel was created in 1758.