ELY -- In an effort to keep out exotic spiny water fleas, Voyageurs National Park officials are considering banning live bait in the park's smaller lakes and ending float plane and boat visits to ...

Spiny water fleas, another foreign species believed to have crossed the ocean in the ballast of saltwater ships, has been confirmed in Shagawa Lake near Ely. The tiny creatures, which resemble a large ...

DULUTH -- Two decades after first invading Island Lake Reservoir north of Duluth, spiny water fleas have muscled their way ahead of native species and signaled that they are here to stay. The European ...

AN INVASIVE SPECIES HAS BEEN FOUND IN NEW HAMPSHIRE WATERS. THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES SAYS BIOLOGIST HAVE FOUND A NEW AQUATIC FLEA IN LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE. BIOLOGISTS FOUND THE ...

Reporting in Environmental Science & Technology Letters, researchers found that plastic microfibers can entangle some of the smallest aquatic creatures: water fleas. Plastic pollution can harm some of ...

CHICAGO — In the summer of 2023, strange things happened to the tiny creatures that swim and float in the Chicago River. One type of water flea, Chydoridae, basically disappeared from the South Side ...

The spiny water flea was discovered in Lake Winnipesaukee in September, marking the first time the aquatic invasive species has ever been detected in the Granite State, officials announced Friday.

A new aquatic invasive species has been found in Lake Winnipesaukee for the first time, environmental officials said. On Sept. 13, biologists from the New Hampshire Department of Environmental ...