creatures

[chazza]

We've noticed some little creatures in a bucket of water outside our house � like tadpoles only far smaller.  Any idea what they might be?

[kkeggie]

i think i know what you mean, right little squirmers. i think that are midgy larvae.

[woofgang]

I think that kkeggie is right. if you don't want to be bitten to bits when the little dears hatch, empty the bucket!!

[Cetti]

Nasty little critters!

More than likely to be Mosquito larvae, so do as you've been told by woofgang and get rid of them ;-)

[spudqueen]

Another way of killing the little blighters is by pouring a bit of oil on the top of the water, if it's only a bucket though i'd do what woofgang says and pour it all away.

[dmsjps]

Oh I never knew that. I've got a new pond/waterfall and it's full of the little blighters. But every day I get loads of sparrows and tits coming to drink and play there, so I don't want to poison them as well. Is there anything I can put in to kill the larvae but not harm the birds?