Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I found these SWIMMING around in some putrid water! What are they?
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
The biggest ones about an inch or so the littler ones about a quarter to half inch, not counting their tails.
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Name: Leslieray Hurlburt Sacramento California (Zone 9b)
This may be what you have Very interesting. Rattailed Maggots
Drone fly, Eristalis tenax (Linnaeus), and Eristalinus aenus (Scopoli),
Syrphidae, DIPTERA
Hamilton Square Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento California.
Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I think that's what they are! Interesting yes .. but very gross. I wonder what dead thing the eggs were laid on.
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
Thanks .. I should have taken video .. the way individuals swam around was really bizarre as well.
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I forgot to add too, for those of you who are Anne McCaffrey's Pern fans, I would not be surprised if she used these critters for her description of Thread as they look almost exactly as she described.
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Someone posted a Youtube of the rat-tailed maggots swimming. At one point the camera person holds a maggot in their cupped hand and after a short time the maggot starts eating the dead skin cells of the hand similar to the pedicure fish.
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
ack! That's well, ack!
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Name: Sandy B. Ford River Twp, Michigan UP (Zone 4b) (Zone 4b-maybe 5a)
I knew there was something in the back of my mind about these... they are used as bait for ice fishing and called "mousies"! (Too bad the ice fishing bait market isn't very good in your area, Anne... )
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Name: Anne Summerville, SC (Zone 8a) Only dead fish go with the flow!
I count my blessings for sure!
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