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Water was clear, colorless, and contained silt, sand, flower bracts and other plant material, small amounts of algae and fungus. Second and third instar (growth stage) Culex mosquito larvae found. Certain species of Culex mosquitoes can transmit West Nile virus.

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Short video showing how fast mosquito larvae can move

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This video was shot at normal speed...

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This video was shot in slow-motion so you can see how they flex and snap their bodies to move quickly through the water to avoid predators. When they stop moving, their syphon (breathing tube) reconnects with the surface of the water (there are water repellent hairs lining the opening of the tube so the insect can quickly connect with the surface air).

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This video captures a spiral "raft" of midge eggs and a foraging larvae

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Water was colorless, clear, and contained silt, sand with a lot of sparkling mica flakes, plants stems, leaves, flower bracts, and a small amount of algae and fungus. Also present: springtail, paramecium, and midge larvae and eggs. No mosquitoes found.

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Some midges lay eggs in spirals. The coils are clearer on the left side of the image and seem to be more disorganized towards the top right (it's just the camera angle). A small plant stem lies parallel to the eggs mass on the top.

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A springtail walks across the surface of the water.

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There are many different kinds of springtails (all are tiny). This one is possibly a Poduromorpha (unknown beyond that)

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The water was colorless, but slightly cloudy, and contained plant stems and seeds and a small amount of fungus, and hair (unknown animal). No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was tinted slightly brown, slightly murky, and contained large amounts of silt and sand, plus plant stems, leaves, roots, seeds, and some algae and fungus. Many small midge larvae seen moving through the silt. No mosquitoes found.

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Insect wing (possible fly) and grass seed (still wrapped in lemma and palea)

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Water was tinted slightly yellowish, clear, and contained silt, sand, plant stems, seeds, a small amount of algae and fungus, and a few insect parts. No mosquitoes found.

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Water was clear, colorless, and contained silt, sand, asphalt, fibers, plant stems, roots, leaves, seeds, algae, fungus, insect parts (head of an ant), and rotifers. No mosquitoes found. See other Padlet link to Water Analysis Key for close-ups of rotifers.

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Close up of sand and chunk of asphalt (black rock in upper left)

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Water was clear, colorless, and contained silt, sand, plant stems, leaves, roots, seeds, algae, fungus and a springtail. No mosquitoes found.

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A Globular Springtail walking on surface of water

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This tiny fellow has large white spots on his sides and the top of his head.

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Water was clear, colorless, and contained silt, sand, plant stems, roots, algae, fungus, fibers, and midge larvae. No mosquitoes found.

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Worm or fly larvae? This is a larval midge (a mosquito-like fly). The brown head capsule at one end and the segmented body differentiates it from a nematode worm).

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Water was brown and murky and contained silt, plant debris, booklouse and fungus gnat. No mosquitoes found.

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Water is tinted yellow and murky. Contains fungus, organic debris, fibers, hair, dead spring tails, dead fungus gnats. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was tinted slightly yellow and contained silt, sand, stem, seeds, fungus, organic debris, and a springtail. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was milky and contained fibers, hair, fungus, and a springtail. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water is yellow and murky. Water contains silt, stems, roots, seeds, algae, fungus, a sprout, hair, springtails, ciliates. No mosquitoes found.

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Water is tinted yellow and contains sand, stems, roots, algae, fungus, rotifers, and ciliates. No mosquitoes were found.

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Aedes mosquito larva found

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Water was tinted, yellowish brown and contained fungus, silt, springtails, a spider, unidentified larvae, and an Aedes mosquito larva.

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Green pellet may be evidence of mosquito larvae.

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Water was clear and colorless, contained silt and sand, algae and fungus, fibers, ciliates, plant stems and other material. No mosquitoes found. However, green pellet (frass or poop) may have been deposited by mosquito larvae not captured in sample.

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This little guy moved constantly and was so fast that we shot a slow-motion video. This 32 second video captures only 6 seconds in real time. The water was clear and colorless, and contained silt, sand, algae, fungus, plastic fibers (always) and this 2nd instar (stage or molt) Aedes (probable) mosquito larva.

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The water was colorless and slightly milky. It contained fungus and a lot of red and blue fibers. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was brown and clear. It contained silt, sand, plant seeds, algae, fungus, fibers, hair, and two springtails. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was clear and colorless. Contained fibers, fungus, and an adult mosquito.

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Water is colorless and clear. Contains fibers, hair, fungus, sand, and a springtail.

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The water was yellow and clear. It contained silt, algae, fungus, fibers and copepods. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water is colorless and clear. Contains silt, algae, fungus, and rotifers. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was slightly yellow but clear. It contained silt, plant roots, algae, fungus, and some blue fibers. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained silt, some plant matter, algae, fungus, fibers, and rotifers which you can see in the video. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained algae and some inorganic blue fibers. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was brown but clear. It contained silt, sand, plant roots, fungus, plastic fibers, plasmodium and a long legged fly. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was yellow and clear. It contained silt, fungus, and mosquitoes in their larval and pupal stages.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained some fibers and a fungus gnat. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water is colorless and clear. Contains specks of organic material. No mosquitoes found.

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Water was clear and colorless and contained, silt, sand, algae and fungus, fibers, seeds, and animal hair, and a springtail. No mosquitoes found.

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Water is colorless and clear. Contains organic plant debris  and fibers. No mosquitoes found.

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Springtail (insect-like organism) doing their thing!

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Water is tinted yellow and clear. Contains roots, leaves, algae, fungus, and ciliates. No mosquitoes found.

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Water was clear and colorless and contained sand, fibers, algae and fungus, and ciliates. No mosquitoes found.

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Water is colorless and clear. Contains a fiber and specks of debris. No mosquitoes found.

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Water was slightly murky and contained silt and sand, fibers, asphalt, seeds, algae and fungus, possibly midge larvae (tiny). No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It just contained some bubbles. No mosquitoes were found. (Cleansing wipe tainted water sample).

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Video #2

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The water was brown but clear. It contained silt, algae, fungus, inorganic fibers, and some pieces of some dead Aedes mosquitoes larvae.

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Midges are mosquito look alikes… but, in this case, without the “bitey parts”

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Water was clear and colorless and contained a small amount of silt, fibers, algae and fungus, and three dead, adult midges. No mosquitoes found.

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Water was clear and colorless and contained silt, sand, algae, fungus, plastic fibers and pieces (see pink iridescent, hexagonal chunk - might be glitter), duckweed, and a single Daphnia (see video below and "Daphnia" and "Duckweed" on Water Analysis Key). No mosquitoes found.

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This is a slow-motion video of about 7 seconds of movement. Daphnia are freshwater crustaceans. The eggs of which are probably carried from one water source to another on the feet and legs of birds. The "wings" that propel Daphnia through the water are not legs but their antennae. Their legs are locked inside the shell. Can you see the tiny black eyes? How about the little spike at the end of its shell?

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The water was slightly murky, tinted yellow, and contained unidentifiable plant material, a few seeds, algae, fungus, plastic fibers, and leg segments from an unidentifiable insect (possibly an ant). No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was clear but tinted slightly yellow, and contained silt, sand, plant roots and leaf fragments, algae, fungus, and plastic fibers (blue thread) which are found in virtually all water samples. Other organisms found included ciliates and rotifers (See Water Analysis Key for details). No mosquitoes were found.

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This water sample was clear and colorless and contained only a small amount of debris. Pictured above is a clump of fungus and a plastic fiber. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was clear and colorless and contained silt, algae, fungus and several Aedes mosquito larva (of various stages of development indicating multiple mosquitoes laid eggs in this water source at different times), and a pupa (shrimp-like stage just before they become adult mosquitoes).

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This water sample was tinted slightly yellow (usually that comes from tannins, a natural by-product from plant material present in the water - think of the brown color that escapes from a tea bag as it is brewed in hot water). It also contained silt and sand, plastic fibers and small chunks of asphalt, and a few rotifers were spotted swimming about (See Water Analysis Key for close-ups of rotifers). The surface of the water had a half dozen springtails (small, 6 legged, insect-like arthropods - see additional post and Water Analysis Key). No mosquitoes were found.

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Springtails (a six-legged, insect-like arthropod). They have a trigger-like tail folded under their bodies that propels them forward in a great leap.

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Springtails are found in damp locations under rocks and wood and along the edges of water. Their light weight allows them to walk along the surface of the water, but they prefer land and feed on fungus and decomposing plant matter.

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Water is colorless and clear. Contains silt, fibers, algae, fungus, plant material, rotifers, and ciliates.

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Water was clear and colorless, and contained silt and sand, plant material, algae and fungus, plastic fibers. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear, tinted slightly yellow, and contained silt, sand, plant stems and leaf fragments and a fly larvae (species unknown), and a Culex mosquito larva (See Water Sample Key for differences between Culex and Aedes mosquitoes). See video post of both types of larvae in action.

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Both of these are types of flies. The larger, bristly one is a Culex mosquito larva and the smaller, smoother larva is some type of aquatic fly or gnat (both are in the Order Diptera - True Flies). Both have a siphon to aid in getting oxygen from the surface of the water.

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Water was clear and colorless and contained silt and sand, algae and fungus, and plant material. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear and colorless and only contained a small amount of debris. This plant leaf fragment was one of the largest pieces found, along with a few plastic fibers. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was slightly cloudy, colorless and contained sand, fibers, algae and fungus and a single Aedes mosquito egg.

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Water was clear, but tinted yellow, contained silt and sand, algae and fungus, plant material, and ciliates. No mosquitoes found.

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Water was clear and tinted slightly yellow, and contained silt and sand, algae and fungus, plant roots, plastic fibers. No mosquitoes found.

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This water was cloudy and contained fibers and white to tan colored debris of an unknown type (could be plastic, paint, or some sort of dried food substance such as milk). No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear, colorless, and contained a small about of silt, fungus. and fibers. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained fungus and some blue fibers. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was clear and colorless and contained a tiny amount of plant material and fibers. No mosquitoes found.

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Water is colorless and clear. Contains one Culex mosquito larva.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained algae, fibers, and some rotifers that can be seen in the video. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained silt, algae, fibers and one Aedes mosquito larva.

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Water is colorless and milky. Contains fibers, hairs, and fungus. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear and slightly milky. It contained silt, sand, fibers, fungus, and rotifers. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained some organic plant matter and some inorganic blue fibers. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water is yellowish and clear. Contains asphalt, fungus, fibers, and plant material.

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Water was slightly murky, and contained silt,sand, fibers, algae and fungus, plant stems and other material, rotifers and ostracods. No mosquitoes found.

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Ostracod or “seed shrimp” is a tiny freshwater crustacean common in backyard water samples.

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The water was brown and murky. It contained silt, sand, and fibers. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained silt, plant stems, algae, fungus, fibers and hair. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was clear and colorless, contained fibers, algae and fungus, and a dead ant. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained silt, fungus, fibers, hair, and rotifers. No mosquitoes were found.

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The water was brown and murky. It contained some silt, sand, plant stems and roots, fungus, and some tiny ciliates. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water is clear and colorless. Contains algae, fungus, fibers, and decomposing organic debris. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was clear and colorless. It contained silt, plant matter, fibers, fungus, nematodes, and rotifers and a midge larva which can be seen in the video. No mosquitoes were found.

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Water was clear and colorless and contained silt, fibers, algae and fungus. No mosquitoes found.

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Water was clear and colorless, and contained a small amount of silt and sand, plant material, and fibers. No mosquitoes found.

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The water was brown and milky. It contained silt, some organic plant matter, fungus, and some blue fibers. No mosquitoes were found.