Hi all,
For my inagural post, I have an especially gross one for you. Just today my wife came up to me and asked me what the little worms were on the bottom of my pond. I went outside and took a look and, to my utter horror, there was a number of 'pockets' of these worms throughout the pond in shallow water. They seem to have popped up overnight (we look at the water almost every day to spot frogs). I googled as much as I could for freshwater worms, and the closest I can figure they appear to be a kind of detrius worm, although far be it from me to say so conclusively.
The video, for those of strong stomach (okay, maybe I'm just squeamish), is here (please excuse my french in the video, but my reaction was visceral):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DJPPdGlPEE If anyone can have a look at this video and let me know what they think of it and if I need to get rid of them, that would be very helpful. My pond is very small (it's just a 10 x 10 back yard pond), with no fish or other larger animals save for the occasional frog. Maybe I just do nothing? Just feels wrong to have them there though - it is truly horrifying to walk by and see them wigglling away like that.
Thanks all!
Dan
