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[Closed] Weird things swimming in our large bucket. Nature lovers please

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They look like long thin tadpole type things with a longish tail attached.
About 2 c.m lengh of body and 1.5 c.m. of tail. There are 4 of them and they keep intertwining. Slug like in appearance and scary to look at.
No photo as it's a bit dull out there now. The bucket is like a small pond and full to the brim of diry rainwater.

Could they be larvae? Any ideas?


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 9:33 pm
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can you get a flash light n take a pic?


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 9:34 pm
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Leech?

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Posted : 05/06/2010 9:38 pm
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Will try tomorrow as a photographer - hubby say's the flash will just reflect off the water.

They're definitely not tadpoles as we have plenty of those in the pond.


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 9:39 pm
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Don't think leech either, as the tail is a definite tail and not just a thinner part of the creature.
I was fasinated by the intertwining actions.


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 9:40 pm
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Mosquito larvae?

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Posted : 05/06/2010 9:42 pm
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Smooth Newt tadpoles?


 
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Mosquito Larvae, love standing water


 
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Smooth Newt Larva


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 9:52 pm
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Will get photo in the morning, as it's none of the above.


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 10:07 pm
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You'd have to be quite a nature lover to feel anything but mild scorn for whatever revolting thing is spawning in a manky bucket. ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 10:15 pm
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dragonfly larvae ?


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 10:17 pm
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Sounds, to me, suspiciously like the spawn of the devil!

I'd get some holy water in that bucket as soon as, and stand well back.


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 11:29 pm
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thing is spawning in a manky bucket.

I know the feeling.


 
Posted : 05/06/2010 11:34 pm
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Weird, aren't they? Mrs NBT thinks the smaller black things are midge larvae: they are about 5 or 6 mm long. There's also a big ol' frog living in the bucket and he came out to play. The wriggly wotsits were all over him and he didn't gobble them up.


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 5:06 pm
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holy cow.....freaky. really big sperm? ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 5:11 pm
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That is very weird. The black things are midge larvae, no idea at all about those "wriggly wotsits"


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 5:12 pm
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Giant sperm?


 
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albino tadpoles?


 
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holy cow.....freaky. really big sperm?

Or very small bucket! certainly neither my sperm or ex...


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 5:25 pm
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clearly not of this earth
nuke from orbit


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 5:28 pm
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Albino Tadpoles?


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 5:39 pm
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Does your hubby visit the bucket often?

Maybe you need a chat with him!

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Monkey spunk.

*Thread closed*


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 5:43 pm
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Rat tailed maggots, Hover fly larvae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat-tailed_maggot


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 6:00 pm
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Baby robin larvae


 
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Damn you Dave, just found it myself, Grrrrrrr!


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 6:09 pm
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I didn't have to [i]find[/i] it, I [i]knew[/i] 8)


 
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FFS.......from Dave's link :

[i]"Flies, attracted to feces, may deposit their eggs or larvae near or into the anus, and the larvae then penetrate further into the rectum. They can survive feeding on feces at this site, as long as the breathing tube reaches towards the anus."[/i]

Whatever you do Bunnyhop, don't place your exposed bum over the bucket ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
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Whatever you do Bunnyhop, don't place your exposed bum over the bucket

Thats maybe how they got there in the first place ernie. Bunnyhop's a northerner - no indoor cludgey, hence the bucket in the garden. ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 6:17 pm
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A bucket damn she's from a posh family we have a hole in the ground.


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 6:38 pm
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You've got a hole in the ground? So you've got ground have you? Well let me tell you this posh lad- I don't even have a bum, let alone anything to point it at!


 
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This thread is starting to give a whole new meaning to the term [i]"I ain't got a pot to piss in".[/i] ๐Ÿ˜•

Or is that just a Southern term ?


 
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Terrible language, that should be I ain't got a pot in which to piss (quote 1st St Trinians film)


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 7:26 pm
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Oh my! I'm sitting here laughing my old wellies off. Feeling sick also on looking up Dave's link.

Oh and welcome back sharkie (blows kisses your way).

They look scary enough coiled around each other, on their own the wee beasties look even yukkier.

Have now spent the late afternoon pouring out the contents of large bucket down the drain with the help of my young nepwhew, who insisted on going in there with both hands and pulling out the frog.


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 7:32 pm
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Down the drain???

Then they'll be back up the pipes and into your loo! ๐Ÿ˜ฏ


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 7:35 pm
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& back up your bum!!


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 7:36 pm
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Yep Angela, that did occur to me only after reading Dave's link, which of course was way too late.


 
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Yep...all Dave's fault...with his too bloody late link!! ๐Ÿ™„

8)


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 7:40 pm
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Terrible language, that should be I ain't got a pot in which to piss (quote 1st St Trinians film)

I think the scariest thing on this thread is that he knows enough about the film to quote it!


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 10:47 pm
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Down the drain? DOWN THE F***ING DRAIN!!!

Now we are all doomed!


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 11:07 pm
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Could be worse ;o)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candiru


 
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To be honest, I thought it was just the old "botflies" what got up to that sort of nonsense....... I had no idea that hoverflies were botty boys too.

I can see that I'm going to have to keep an eye out for suspicious looking snorkels/ breathing tubes poking out of me anus ๐Ÿ˜


 
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.....and the bj catfish ๐Ÿ˜•


 
Posted : 06/06/2010 11:27 pm
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Hot frying pan, bit of garlic, chilli oil and ginger and serve up to the in-laws at BBQ time........... ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 07/06/2010 8:53 am
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I ain't got a pot in which to piss

Dodgy film, but that line is pure class ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 07/06/2010 2:37 pm
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Yep down the drain.

To clarify - I did this before I read Dave's link of doom. I recognised that the other 'snarlies' were midge larvae and visiting friend confirmed this so the whole lot went down.


 
Posted : 07/06/2010 5:34 pm