Water bucket full of black wrigglers!

[hmguk]

I have a water bucket for filling up my garden water feature and I have noticed that it is full of minute 1/4 inch long black thread like things that come to the surface and stay for a short time then go back down to bottom. Is this mosquitoes? or something else. Any info appreciated.

[commoner]

Sounds like mosquito larvae at the "wriggler" stage........better to tip them out the nasty little beggars...........

[heathfield]

Check and see if they look like these

[Catso]

Almost certainly mosquito larvae. Relatively harmless - you won't catch malaria.

[naz_nomad]

Don't let the blighters go to the flying stage ...tip 'em on the lawn & let the birds eat 'em

[hmguk]

Thought so, but being in the UK, mosquitos are not a common problem. Have had a spell of hot weather so maybe this has assisted them!

[spudqueen]

Common enough hmguk - I've just come back from a narrowboat holiday and had to kill mosquitos nearly every night before I could go to sleep, didn't want to get bitten in the night. Kill them now!

[genius2006]

or give them to someone with fishies, they love em