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Ep5 UK Wildlife Podcast – Pond life in Winter

amphibian, Freshwater invertebrates, frog, mammal, Podcast, pond skater, sealBy Neil-UKWildlife January 10, 2020 Leave a comment

What pond creatures, such as the pond oilve mayfly, do to survive the cold in winter, and give some tips on how to look after your pond when it freezes over. Kestrel decline and our first memory’s of garden wildlife, and what surprises us about nature. Seal pup deaths and should dogs be allowed in nature reserves.

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Pond olive mayfly nymph

Ephemeroptera, Freshwater invertebrates, insectBy Neil-UKWildlife April 4, 2015 Leave a comment

Some photos of the pond olive mayfly nymph I took using my photographic aquarium.

Wandering snail pond snails and mayfly nymphs

Ephemeroptera, Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insect, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlife March 6, 2013 1 Comment

Some from the processing backlog, much of which consists of pond creatures like these. Not my best pond pics, but worth processing. The Wandering pond snail is a common species in ponds. The pond olive mayfly nymph I have blogged about before before

Cloen dipterum Pond Olive Mayfly

Ephemeroptera, Factfile, Freshwater invertebrates, insectBy Neil-UKWildlife January 3, 2013 2 Comments

One of the most common finds in garden ponds this time of year is the Pond olive mayfly nymph Cloen dipterum. Mayflies usual conjure up thoughts of adults that mate and die after a day or two, and to those more familiar aquatic invertebrates of the larvae that live the the relatively oxygen rich flowing…

Pond olive mayfly and case building chironomid midge

Essex, Freshwater invertebrates, insect, wat tyler cpBy Neil-UKWildlife February 13, 2012 Leave a comment

Some more pond photos. First up my best photo yet of a Pond olive mayfly nymph. This one appears to have lost half of its middle tail filament. I also photographed some chironomid midge larvae. this group is best known for its red coloured species, known as bloodworms. This species however was green and hide…

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Ep5 UK Wildlife Podcast – Pond life in Winter

Pond olive mayfly nymph

Wandering snail pond snails and mayfly nymphs

Cloen dipterum Pond Olive Mayfly

Pond olive mayfly and case building chironomid midge