Some Pond Creatures and Controls
Here's a few links for helping you attract the good guys and discourage the bad guys.
Now, let me be clear that some of these creatures are gifts and some are trials and I"m not suggesting you encourage any of then (well, maybe the frogs). But the reality is that as soon as you put water into your landscape design, you're going to attract wildlife.
And that's part of the reason we have water in our backyards, to encourage and support wildlife in simple ways. From providing water for birds to a home for insects that are being driven to extinction by development.
It's a small thing and we do get to take the good with some bad but that's what watching nature is all about. :-)
Friendly frogs
Dragonflies
This is one of my favorite insects because it eats a ton of mosquitoes and black flies. Love these insect helicopters.
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Read What Others Have Said
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What are these creatures? Does anyone know what this is? I have a ton of them flitting around in my pond.
Hand pump vac to protect nymphs? Doug, Have you ever heard of using some sort of suction hand pump to vacuum up debris in a 1200 gallon pond? I want to protect the dragonfly nymphs. Was ...
snails eating water lilies
How do I get rid of the snails without killing the fish?
Doug says - it depends on the size of your pond. There are chemical solutions to do this but ...
snails
I have a over popultion snail problem in the bog on my koi pond. The little tiny ones. So many they are stopping up my fountain. Any solutions?
Doug ...
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