Pond Life

I found these while draining our koi pond. Please let me know if you know what they are.

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• pond
• invertebrate
• larva
• transparent
• drone
• fly
• rattail
• maggot

[Afronadian]

wtf am i looking at

[crunchbot12]

rattail maggots, they are young drone flies.

[thefresh]

how big are they?

[crunchbot12]

the bigger one there is about 2 cm.

[thefresh]

Alright, i'm a bio major and i had never seen anything like that before. i was convinced that it was an alien.  but i did some research and i believe they are Dronefly larvae. what ever became of them?

[crunchbot12]

yeah they are dronefly larvae, you're right. actually, i posted it as the comment right after this one. they never became drone flies, even though i kept feeding them for a couple of weeks. i was not allowed to keep them in the house by order of my girlfriend, and the jar overheated outside and they died. the mosquito larvae certainly became mosquitos though. I'm also a bio major, and yes, was also convinced that they were alien :) thanks for looking into what they were!

[LuvSmileyFace]

If you like fishing, apparently they make good bait. But if you want to keep them as pets they eat decomposing fruit. I feed mine rotting strawberries =D

[Billybunter32]

They are rat tailed maggots. The larva of the hover fly

[BakBro1945]

Uggh.

[K1TSON360]

ugly looking creepy bastards

[lookintothesky123]

thay are rat tild rag worms well lave

[acmajeed]

The shot shows 2 flower fly ( looks like honey bee) larvae eating a mosquito larva(!)

[storm80error]

omg that looks like chilli glass and diarohea!!!!1