Marimo moss balls now are rolling into stylish vases and even into tiny orbs and bottles as jewelry. Consider marimo the moss in your underwater terrarium. Or the floating plant in your aquarium.

Highly invasive and destructive freshwater mussels are threatening to make their way to the Pacific Northwest through decorative aquarium moss balls. Earlier this month, a wholesale aquarium company ...

Balls of moss commonly found in aquariums are threatening to push the zebra mussel invasion further across the U.S., wildlife officials are warning. Contaminated moss balls have been found in pet ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Zebra mussels, the invasive species that cause extensive damage to waterways, have discovered another way to inflict harm to the habitat and economy. They recently have been ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A plant meant for aquariums in the United States and imported from the Ukraine could contaminate your aquarium with invasive zebra mussels, according to the Texas Parks and Wildlife ...

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is urging pet and aquarium stores and consumers to immediately remove and properly dispose of commercially purchased “moss balls” for aquariums after ...

State and federal wildlife agencies are warning pet and aquarium store owners and their customers about the finding earlier this month of invasive zebra mussels in aquarium products known as "moss ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KLTV) - The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) and other wildlife agencies around the country are urging stores that sell aquarium products to remove a “moss ball” aquarium ...

Pet stores in more than 30 states across the country, including Indiana, have been selling something they shouldn't: invasive zebra mussels. These fingernail-sized mussels are regarded as one of the ...

B.C. officials are sounding the alarm over a tiny invasive species they say has hitched a ride into our province and could be hiding on popular decorative aquarium plants known as moss balls. Both the ...

Zebra mussels have been detected in a popular ornamental plant sold in Saskatchewan. The moss/algal ball products, often sold as Marimo Moss Balls, are used in aquariums and water gardens typically ...

The B.C. Conservation Officer Service tweeted a picture of one of the invasive species recently found on popular aquarium plants known as moss balls, originally shipped from pet suppliers in Europe.