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Help - Larvae identification
When I went to clean my skimmer box I noticed a large number of small
wriggly black larvae attached to the pump intake. It is a slotted piece of PVC pipe. I am using a Sequence 5800, a 5800 GPH pump. I see them both at the intake area and attached to the strainer in the priming pot. Some hold! Do you think these are leech larvae? Any other ideas? Thanks, Tim |
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Help - Larvae identification
When you talk wriggly that usually means mosquito larva. Look here http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...pages/1249.htm But when you say they are holding on in a strong current that usually means black fly larva. Look here http://www.rayswords.com/bugs/pages/31b.htm Leeches, if you pick one up, are soft. Insects, larva and adult, have hard 'skin', actually an outside skeleton to hold their innards together. Look here for leech pictures http://www.rackelhanen.se/eng/10143.htm Not all leeches will latch onto you and digest blood. Some leeches eat the decaying stuff (detritus) in the pond. I've kept leeches, found in ponds, indoors with aquatic frogs and snails and all the leeches do is rummage around in the rocks looking for dead bits of plants, frog and snail poo. All that being said, any one of these critters make excellent fish food. The way to test leeches (barring offering them your finger) is to buy some liver and put the leech in with the liver piece. Detritus eating leeches will turn their noses up at liver. kathy :-) A HREF="http://www.onceuponapond.com/"Once upon a pond/A |
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Help - Larvae identification
"ttalbls" wrote in message news:uiMpc.58724$536.9976738@attbi_s03...
When I went to clean my skimmer box I noticed a large number of small wriggly black larvae attached to the pump intake. It is a slotted piece of PVC pipe. I am using a Sequence 5800, a 5800 GPH pump. I see them both at the intake area and attached to the strainer in the priming pot. Some hold! Do you think these are leech larvae? Any other ideas? Thanks, Tim Probably black flies. Kill them before they turn or you'll be sorry. |
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