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Larvae in my pond

susan.lewis36

susan.lewis36 Posts: 2

June 2021 in Wildlife gardening

Please can anyone identify these please

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Jellyfire Posts: 1,139

June 2021

They look like rat-tailed maggots, which sound horrific, but are actually hover fly larvae and a definite good guy in the garden and pond

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susan.lewis36 Posts: 2

June 2021

Thank you Jellyfire,been googling all afternoon trying to find out what they were, glad they’re good guys

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Fire Posts: 19,096

July 2021

They kind of look like small floating tampons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B6MJQGDDiU

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