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13-06-2011, 01:21 PM
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| |  how quickly?
So I went to empty caught rain water in my water butt and found in this shallow seed tray of water that is only about a week old a water beetle (see preivious id post) and this clump of snail eggs. 
What is baffling is that I cannot seem to find any snails in the tray of water which does have some sediment in it, I have disturbed the sediment and outside of just mosquito larva I cannot find anything else. My question is how quickly does a body of water become habitated by water wildlife and where did the snail eggs come from, so quickly especially since I cannot find any snails ???
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13-06-2011, 01:26 PM
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| | | Re: how quickly?
Waterbeetles will fly in in a matter of hours. The eggs may well be Fly eggs. I forget which fly. We don`t get those this far North.
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13-06-2011, 03:37 PM
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It's really random. I have had a pond up since October last year and have Mosquito and Midge larvae, Dafnia and some kind of Crustacean. I have yet to have any beetles, snails, damselfly (apart from a single rat-tailed maggot) or dragonflies. It might not help that I have high hedges but I'm sure it's only a matter of time before more things find my pond. |
13-06-2011, 09:16 PM
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Yes I agree it doesn't take long to find a new pond, when I built my first pond in hours after it was filled I had pond skaters, which was great (strangley though I haven't had any this year yet) hmmm?!
What I was really surprised by this time was that this was a shallow (2") amount of water and yet it still attracted life. Dont you just love nature 
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