Purple beans tagged with PIT tags two years post-release

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Tim Lane/Virginia DWR

Date Shot/Created
01/01/2024
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Public Domain
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Service biologists used dental cement to adhere passive integrated transponder (PIT) tags to these purple bean mussels to track them through their lifetimes. These mussels were recovered two years after their release into the wild.
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Freshwater mussels