So I've Got This Garden Pond

[joggerjayne]

Okay, it's not strictly speaking "a pond" ...

It's a green ice bucket that I left out on the balcony ...

It filled with rain water. And now, it's got these teeny, weeny little things swimming around in it. They're like tiny, tiny tadpole shaped things.

Any ideas what they could be? And will they grow into big, scary things?

I can't empty out the ice bucket now, coz they would all die.

[Baldric]

Probably Mozzies!

[Prudie]

They are the larvae of something like midges, gnats or mosquitoes. How cute :-)

[Elina]

Ebola tadpoles.

[RATTER15]

Mozzies I'm afraid!

[joggerjayne]

Gnats or mozzies, that's okay.

Ebola tadpoles doesn't sound good.

[snags]

Mosquito Lava. Or possibly Spermatazoa.

[Elina]

^ lol! Jayne?

[joggerjayne]

Wrong colour, snags.

[Daffy6543]

I was reading an article the other day that there are some deadly mozzies arriving on our south coast, they have been found to be carrying some horrible diseases :-/

[Daffy6543]

*that SAID*

[Daffy6543]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/11101789/Border-controls-set-up-to-catch-deadly-mosquitoes.html

[snags]

''they have been found to be carrying some horrible diseases''

What... like Malaria, Dengue Fever and West Nile virus are not horrible? ;-p

[mallyh]

tip that bucket joggerjane

[stuey]

Let them grow to full size, and then they could fly in formation with the two Lancasters and the Spitfire.

[Daffy6543]

Not actually arrived now that I read it properly, just expected to.

[Elina]

Awww, you got a family of these Jayne! TAKE THEM OUT OF THE WATER!!!!! http://trailersfromhell.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1384962323_13867808821.jpg

[joggerjayne]

I might have to tip them over the balcony.

#gladidontliveonthegroundfloor

[Mags22]

Wow! You can do pond dipping on your balcony!

[joggerjayne]

(wonders what "pond dipping" involves?)

[jno]

are they very small red squirrels? I've heard they're dying out