Where does this critter fit in the food chain?

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Where does this critter fit in the food chain? #513669 11/04/19 01:27 PM
Joined: May 2013 Posts: 2,897 Likes: 146 West Michigan C canyoncreek OP
OP canyoncreek C Joined: May 2013 Posts: 2,897 Likes: 146 West Michigan	see next post below... Last edited by canyoncreek; 11/04/19 08:52 PM.

Re: Where does this critter fit in the food chain? canyoncreek #513681 11/04/19 05:37 PM
Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 6,080 Likes: 1 Boone County Illinois Bill D.
Bill D. Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 6,080 Likes: 1 Boone County Illinois	The pic looks blurry to me and has a Photobucket notice in the middle. Can anybody else see it clearly? Be Brave Enough to Suck at Something New!

Re: Where does this critter fit in the food chain? canyoncreek #513689 11/04/19 08:50 PM
Joined: May 2013 Posts: 2,897 Likes: 146 West Michigan C canyoncreek OP
OP canyoncreek C Joined: May 2013 Posts: 2,897 Likes: 146 West Michigan	Saw this critter last week in the shallows at night, via flashlight. Water was quite cold too so I was surprised to see it swimming around in the shalllows. It has a very ineffective 'kick stroke' and can't seem to move much at all. Must be it tastes bad or it would have disappeared long ago! Online pictures make me think this is tabanus atratus, the larvae stage of a rather large nasty looking BLACK HORSE FLY Oh RATS! that is right, photobucket is now blurring pictures to encourage us to pay them more. I'll upload to the forum directly in this message and then delete the one above. Thanks for letting me know the picture in my first post was bad! Attached Images Last edited by canyoncreek; 11/04/19 08:52 PM.

Re: Where does this critter fit in the food chain? canyoncreek #513691 11/04/19 09:17 PM
Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 6,080 Likes: 1 Boone County Illinois Bill D.
Bill D. Joined: Oct 2014 Posts: 6,080 Likes: 1 Boone County Illinois	That is one creepy looking critter! If I was a fish, I wouldn't eat it either! Be Brave Enough to Suck at Something New!

Re: Where does this critter fit in the food chain? canyoncreek #513714 11/05/19 12:38 PM
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Vortex 4 V Joined: Nov 2016 Posts: 215 Likes: 2 Texas	Looks like a horsefly larvae to me too. I usually find them in the mud though, haven't seen one swimming around. 4 acre pond 32 ft deep within East Texas (Livingston) timber ranch. Filled (to the top of an almost finished dam) by Hurricane Harvey 9/17. Stocked with FHM, CNBG, RES 10/17. Added 35lbs RSC 3/18. 400 N LMB fingerlings 6/18

Re: Where does this critter fit in the food chain? canyoncreek #513726 11/05/19 08:21 PM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 15,145 Likes: 488 Northwest Ohio - Malinta OH B Bill Cody Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker
Bill Cody Moderator Ambassador Field Correspondent Lunker B Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 15,145 Likes: 488 Northwest Ohio - Malinta OH	It is one of the numerous species of the horse fly and deer flies family called Tabanidae. aka Pond Doctor & Dr. Perca Read Pond Boss Magazine - America's Journal of Pond Management

Re: Where does this critter fit in the food chain? canyoncreek #513739 11/06/19 08:07 AM
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Dave Davidson1 Moderator Lunker D Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 16,053 Likes: 277 Hurst & Bowie, Texas	Looks like bait to me It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color. Without a sense of urgency, Nothing ever gets done. Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP

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