there not tad poles but look the same what are they?

Question

i have a small pond in my garden only had it for a week there are lots of little things that look like tad poles but no frog sporn what can they be and how can i get rid of them iv tryed emptying pond but when i refill they come back iv also tryed clorine

Answer 1

It depends on the size of the things. If they're roughly the size of tadpoles, they could be toad tadpoles or newt tadpoles. They don't produce a mass of frogspawn, but strings of it.

If they're _much_ smaller, then they could be mosquito larvae - no frogspawn and they appear within days of a puddle appearing. Definitely not dragonfly larvae - they don't swim or look like tadpoles, but build a little armoured tube around themselves for protection and crawl around on the bottom

The simplest thing is to leave them for a few weeks and see what emerges.

But why bother trying to get rid of them anyway? Frogs, toads and newts do a valuable service eating garden pests like slugs, while mosquitoes are a good food source for birds. I wouldn't waste my energies trying to kill off something that may be harmless at worst and may be helpful to you as a gardener at best. And chlorine will poison the water for any living thing.

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

Mosquito larvae

Rev. Steven

Answer 3

I would say it was sperm somone has been jacking off in your pond

Answer 4

tad - Albanians? They always seem to come back after they've been deported

Answer 5

they are probably larvae of either mosquito or dragon fly

Answer 6

? sperm?