Hiya All
Heres hoping you can help me with identifying
some tiny worm like creatures I have in the pond.
They are about 1/2 cm big , and very thin , they tend to (Swim/Wriggle)
around in a figure of 8 , and there are a lot of them indeed. They also
appear to have gill like characteristics on the front??!! of them. All help
will be appreciated
TIA

Steve

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:00:51 +0100, "Steve"
wrote:

Hiya All
Heres hoping you can help me with identifying
some tiny worm like creatures I have in the pond.
They are about 1/2 cm big , and very thin , they tend to (Swim/Wriggle)
around in a figure of 8 , and there are a lot of them indeed. They also
appear to have gill like characteristics on the front??!! of them. All help
will be appreciated
TIA

Steve

mosquito larva?

Hiya All
Heres hoping you can help me with identifying
some tiny worm like creatures I have in the pond.
They are about 1/2 cm big , and very thin , they tend to (Swim/Wriggle)
around in a figure of 8 , and there are a lot of them indeed. They also
appear to have gill like characteristics on the front??!! of them. All
help
will be appreciated
TIA

Steve




Updated with a few pictures cause I cant really
describe em

http://www.backgarden.net/creatures.htm

mosquito larva

Steve wrote:
Hiya All
Heres hoping you can help me with identifying
some tiny worm like creatures I have in the pond.
They are about 1/2 cm big , and very thin , they tend to (Swim/Wriggle)
around in a figure of 8 , and there are a lot of them indeed. They also
appear to have gill like characteristics on the front??!! of them. All

help

will be appreciated
TIA

Steve





Updated with a few pictures cause I cant really
describe em

http://www.backgarden.net/creatures.htm

Steve wrote:

Heres hoping you can help me with identifying
some tiny worm like creatures I have in the pond.
They are about 1/2 cm big , and very thin , they tend to (Swim/Wriggle)
around in a figure of 8 , and there are a lot of them indeed. They also
appear to have gill like characteristics on the front??!! of them. All help
will be appreciated
TIA

Sounds like maybe they are mosquito larvae




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"Mike" wrote in message
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mosquito larva



Steve wrote:
Hiya All
Heres hoping you can help me with identifying
some tiny worm like creatures I have in the pond.
They are about 1/2 cm big , and very thin , they tend to (Swim/Wriggle)
around in a figure of 8 , and there are a lot of them indeed. They also
appear to have gill like characteristics on the front??!! of them. All
Updated with a few pictures cause I cant really
describe em
http://www.backgarden.net/creatures.htm


So are these guys bad to have and should I take steps to eliminate them , If
so what steps would they be (apart from fish)

TIA

Steve

Looked at the pictures.

RUNNNNNNNNNNN!
Mosquito larva!!!!!!

You need hungry fish or mosquito dunks.


k30a

`It still looks like mosquitos to me...


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:37:50 +0100, "Steve"
wrote:

get some mesquito fish....they eat lots and lots of larva

Steve wrote:
"Mike" wrote in message

mosquito larva


So are these guys bad to have and should I take steps to eliminate them , If
so what steps would they be (apart from fish)

Koi and goldfish consider mosquito larvae "candy" and will eat all if
given the chance. Or if it is a pond where you do not want large fish,
get some gambusia or other local small fish that will eat the larvae.
The other choice is mosquito dunks, but I'm still not convinced they
work as well as they should work.
--
Kathy B, zookeeper
3500gal pond, 13 pond pigs
Oregon

Thx for all you guys for the help ,Im gonna go get some goldfish now :-)



Thx again...

Steve

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:37:50 +0100, "Steve" wrote:


Updated with a few pictures cause I cant really
describe em

http://www.backgarden.net/creatures.htm

From the subject line, I thought you were talking about Theo. :-)

There are mosquito larvae. Good for the pond, bad for us after they
metamorphose. 1 or 2 gambusia in a small pond will all but eliminate them.

Bob

"K30a" wrote in message
...

Looked at the pictures.

RUNNNNNNNNNNN!
Mosquito larva!!!!!!

You need hungry fish or mosquito dunks.


k30a

Mosquito dunks?? what are those??


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On 19 Jun 2003 00:16:55 GMT, ESPMER (K30a) wrote:


Looked at the pictures.

RUNNNNNNNNNNN!
Mosquito larva!!!!!!

You need hungry fish or mosquito dunks.

Burnt motor oil works, but leaves the mother of all bath tub rings. ;-)

Bob

Garee wrote Mosquito dunks?? what are those??

You can find them sold all over the web, here is a description from one of the
pages.

Place Mosquito Dunks in ponds or standing water and it's active ingredient,
Bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israaelenses called BTI kills mosquito and
black fly larvae for 30 days or more. While floating they slowly release a long
term biological mosquito larvacide killing the larvae before they hatch into
adults. Will not effect fish, plants, people or wildlife. Alternative wetting
and drying will not reduce it's effectiveness. Use one dunk per 100 sqft of
water surface.





k30a