"Mary Fisher" wrote in message
t...


"Brian Watson" wrote in message
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Plunging a bucket into my water butt this morning to give the roses a
bit
of
help through the dry spell, I noticed four or five unfamiliar beasties
twitching in the drawn water.

You only have one kind?

No, I have several kinds. It's just that I can't identify this kind!

Golly, there must be half a dozen different kinds in our butt - but only
in
the open one. The ones with lids have no visible life in them, must be a
lesson there !

I have a lid on mine but I assume the parents got in where the inpipe passes
through that lid.


Had another look this morning.

The bodies have a kind of blotchy, almost zigzag dark pattern when viewed
from above, and the pipe-type "tail" is actually about as long as the body.

Any ideas?
--
Brian
"Stuck down a hole, in the fog, in the middle of the night, with an owl."