Sue & Bob Hobden wrote:

Anita wrote in message
after Bob wrote:

Now you presumable want to keep your wildlife pond and would not wish to
introduce one of the larger species of fish so may I suggest
Sticklebacks to
take care of any larvae there may be.
Finally, I too suffer badly from some insect bites and therefore wear a
good
insect repellent containing DEET, perhaps you could suggest they do to.


Unfortunately sticklebacks can be just as destructive to wildlife as
larger
fish. They'll certainly take out newt tadpoles.


True they will eat tadpoles and other creatures, that's nature which is what
a wildlife pond is all about, but they would only take a few a day unlike,
say, a full grown Koi that would simply hoover them and everything else up,
plants and all.
--
Bob


In most garden ponds thats still enough to wipe out the year's production
of newts. In the wild newts are hardly ever found in ponds which have
sticklebacks. That not to say you might not choose to have sticklebacks
rather than newts in your wildlife pond but you are unlikely to be able to
have both.
Anita