Comments on: Save water: bath with a friend http://jeremybiggs.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/save-water-bath-with-a-friend/ "If only I had found this website last year when I started my pond!” Sun, 27 May 2012 13:08:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jeremy Biggs http://jeremybiggs.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/save-water-bath-with-a-friend/#comment-594 Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:44:55 +0000 http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/?p=2803#comment-594 Hi Paul

The answer is not to worry about it.

Mosquitos quickly colonise new ponds, but as other animals come along they will also fairly quickly disappear.

I don’t know enough mosquito biology to know quite why they disappear: probably it’s a combination of competition from other creatures and predation by backswimmers – for which they must be a fairly easy target. If you have fish they will obviously be gobbled up as a tasty snack.

In my original pond they are almost competely absent.

Jeremy

]]> By: paul johnston http://jeremybiggs.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/save-water-bath-with-a-friend/#comment-592 Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:08:40 +0000 http://thegardenpondblog.org.uk/?p=2803#comment-592 Jeremy,

My newly built pond (6 weeks old) has a huge number of what appear to be mosquito larvae. Have you nat advice on how I might address this problem?

Many thanks
Paul

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