BUGS

Client had this paint on his pond. He used a paper towel on a rod to gather some. Once it started to warm up the paint started crawling and flying away. They were bugs about the size of fleas. I have never seen this before. He recently cut down some pine trees that had pine beetle damage. Also upon further review he noticed a few around the house not just on top of the ice on his north Georgia pond. Anyone have a clue. His up close shot was blurry. There is another picture after this one as well if that helps.

Hard to tell Greg, but they might be a type of Springtails.

Do they look like any of these up close? Scroll down and check out the snow fleas.

http://whatsthatbug.com/springtails.html

Thanks shorty I will get that link to client. Cody, any other wants to comment, ever seen anything like that on a pond?

Greg,

We had the same on one of our client's ponds about 2-weeks ago. After the cold temps last week (1 degrees) they have vannished.