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05-09-2007, 02:20 PM
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| | | leech type creature id please
hello. i don't know if anyone can help me with this but there are literally thousands of these stuck to the waterfall at the college ponds. they're about 5-10mm long, stuck to the lino with suckers and wiggly. sorry about the dodgy photo... 
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05-09-2007, 02:28 PM
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what about blackfly larvae? They adhere themselves to rocks etc in the flow of water |
05-09-2007, 02:37 PM
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aha...yes that could be what they are. oh dear though, does that mean we're going to get inundated with them?  
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05-09-2007, 02:54 PM
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apparently according to my book unlike mosquitos they do move quite some distance ~(several km) from the area of emergence and they don't like to come indoors so a slight improvement on mosquitos. |
05-09-2007, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Gill Catton  apparently according to my book unlike mosquitos they do move quite some distance ~(several km) from the area of emergence and they don't like to come indoors so a slight improvement on mosquitos. | woohoo....nope hang on a minute i reckon its about 1km from the pond to the office carpark. d'oh! maybe they'll head in the other direction out into the open countryside!
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05-09-2007, 04:13 PM
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Originally Posted by almostnormal woohoo....nope hang on a minute i reckon its about 1km from the pond to the office carpark. d'oh! maybe they'll head in the other direction out into the open countryside! | put up some tiny wee signposts  |
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