Wondering what this sticky blob is

Jenny_Aster · 9 March

Hi, I'm in the middle of doing a bit of garden spring cleaning. One of the 'urgent' jobs was to clean out a 65L builder's bucket that I keep filled with water for easy watering. The bucket is filled from a water butt which in turn is filled from rain water draining from the roof. There are several blobs of jelly like 'thingies' stuck to the sides and despite squirting them with water from the hosepipe on full bore they're not budging. I'm wondering what they are, and are they safe? My dog used this bucket to drink from. I've left them 'glued' to the side of the bucket which is now filled with water again.

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Pete.8 · 9 March

Pond snails usually lay their eggs on the underside of lily pads in my pond and they do look similar to your 'blobs'

Fairygirl · 9 March

I agree - that's what mine look like on the underside of lily foliage

Jenny_Aster · 9 March

Thanks for that, wonder where they came from? My guess is a bird dropped it on our roof? I've not seen anything in my super small sized pond, but then I've not been looking.

Thank you for your replies, I'm going to make them disappear as I've read they could hold parasites that could pass on lungworm to dogs, I don't need that complication for my 11 year old best friend. The bucket can look forward to getting a good bleaching.

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