Mosquito Larvae and Pupae.

[imwastedenough]

@DetroitDiesel671 Thank you SOOOO much for the tip about floating a thin layer of oil on the surface of the water to suffocate the larvae. My aunt has some sort of plant that she won't get rid of and I've been watching these organisms floating and having a good ol' time in the water. I've changed the water and flushed it down the toilet several times, but about two weeks later, the effing jar would be full of them again. HOPEFULLY, this oil thing will get rid of them once and for all.

[hakmurro]

ok cute... BUT KILL EM NOW!!!

[Plantix4thWatcher]

If only they could stay like this : / Then they'd be cute

[WolfySnackrib666]

@MrMedal77 That little weak boy grew up, grew strong! Well except for the immune defence...

[jamie10310]

@WolfySnackrib666

You're sick.

[WolfySnackrib666]

@jamie10310 Sick, yes, in a lot of fun ways. Sick and superior to a lot of stupid fucking zombies that are out there, shambling around on the streets, living for society, unable to think for themselves. At least I am an individual who sees through the human bullshit, sick though I may be. The only difference between genius and insane is success.

[WolfySnackrib666]

@MrMedal77 I contracted the disease from your dad, several years ago. About the time you were hatched as a matter of fact.

[WolfySnackrib666]

@MrMedal77 I will capture you inside my hemeroid and squirt aids into your rectum. Then I'll paint you like an easteregg and display you on the moon and put rhubarb bushes all over your treehouse.

[WolfySnackrib666]

@MrMedal77 After... no... before... hmm that question doesn't have a favorable answer. So before you intend on doing that I'll steal your car and drive it far away where you will never find it again, hahaa!

[WolfySnackrib666]

@MrMedal77 I will take vengeance upon you and stab your throat! See if you can breathe then.

[Nauticus89]

oh my god, for the past year everyday I've been going outside to wash my face my dunking my head in the pool.. I took a closer look today and my pool is absolutely INFESTED with these.. I'm gonna hurl

[AgentCROCODILE]

@Nauticus89 You can kill them by pouring (olive) oil over the pool - this works because it clogs their oxygen tube and suffocates them.

[demotedpluto]

@Aquaticopia You may want to look into polystyrene beads. They swell up in water and prevent access to oxygen. It's used a lot as a vector-control strategy for malarial mosquitoes.

[iMvERysLeEpy]

they should die like 2012

[Stephaniewatercolour]

thanks, I could tell what was living in the bird bath

[ThowHilton]

I catch these and feed them to my fish they love em.

[mmmmmarcus]

D'ahh look at the cute little buggers. Soon they'll be on their own, transmitting diseases, and fouling swimming pools. *tear-drop*

[tonni124]

add white spirit to the water to kill these

i tested one time

they all float to the top

[tonni124]

i have a couple of things in a jar that look like those but ther are worms

[frexmamen]

add bleach its better than oil :)

[DetroitDiesel671]

I had a jar of these little boogers once, and I disturbed the jar to make them swim to the bottom, and I kept them there by disturbing the jar constantly until they HAD to come up to breathe.... But when they finally did, they discovered that I had floated a thin layer of oil on the water surface, which they were unable to penetrate. Suffocation! ......That's for all the times those bastards have bitten me.

Cool video, by the way.....

[bl0000000000]

@DetroitDiesel671

ROFL XD

[opmike343]

@DetroitDiesel671

Haha, nice.

[Aquaticopia]

@DetroitDiesel671 lolseriously!? That sounds really amazing! I was just wondering how I can kill off extra populations in my yard b/c I have a few ponds/buckets that I can't quite dump..b/c the stuff in them (wood/substrates) that needs to remain underwater...I probably shouldn't use oil though haha!

[WolfySnackrib666]

@DetroitDiesel671 Fucking sadist

[TheSacredSilly]

oh my... these things look like lil' alien creatures preparing to plan a massive attack on the human species.

[WolfySnackrib666]

@TheSacredSilly Aren't they??

[ShariLyssa]

gross! I think I saw some in my fishpond...

I needed to check if it REALLY was larvae!

[shyam248]

good luck and sorry quite interesting.

[shyam248]

this is not accurate

[101CjgProductions]

Yuck!!

[Deancasser]

put a thin layer of oil

[ollyk22]

Can anyone here help I always have something full of water with mozzie larvae in but I have notice one recent batch resting parallel to water surface. Trouble is they have breathing tubes so have I got Anopheles or a lazy species of Culex? or maybe the other species? Bear in mind I am in the UK which shouldn't have Anopheles...

Any idea's?

[murdoc562]

the ones that look like they're hanging are "wigglers" which are larva, than the balled up ones are the "tumblers", the pupa stage.

[nephrenmalinari]

How strange. The pupae are actually aware of their surroundings? Other insect pupae are generally dormant.

[ollyk22]

I think it depends. Many caterpilla pupae will wiggle if disturbed but of course it will depend which stage.

Of course in water they will stay active to evade predators!