In the interest of finding out what, exactly, those little wiggly things are
in my pond I scooped out a couple and am leaving them in a container for a
few days to see what develops. I know mosquitos don't take too long to
'grow up' so I'm keeping my eye on them.

Got a bunch of interesting stuff out of my mini-pond, including dragon fly
larvae (yay!), those mystery wiggly things, small beetle like things that
look like grains of pepper cruising around, small flesh-colored things a
little bigger than those grains of pepper (tons of the black ones, like
100's and 100's) and a lesser, but still a good amount, of the fleshy
colored ones. Also a strange blood red worm about 3/4 of an inch long
w/what looked like pincer things at one of it's ends (but they looked almost
soft and useless).

I put everything back except the mystery wiggly things and a few unfortunate
pepper grains that are now part of my project. I think there are three or 4
wiggly things in my project container, and only 1 is behaving like a
mosquito larvae by hanging near the surface.

Anybody know what any of this stuff might be?

Thank you
LeeAnne
It's amazing what a couple scoops of water may yield.

PS - If I put mosquito fish (are those rosier reds or different?) will they
eat the dragon fly larvae? I'd much rather have the DF's.

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