Can someone identify these.....

[Shoestring Ponder]

II spent this morining cleaning filter material as well as quilt batting and a small fountain pump and found these in my material. I also found a few blood worms...wiggly little creatures but these do not resemble them. They are more like a flat worm, sort of like a leach as one end sticks to the surface and the other end extends. If you get one on your finger, you cannot just flick it off, you have to remove it w a fingernail under the sucker end, but I have not noticed it biting into one's skin. I believe the red worms or blood worms are considered the larvae of the MIdge Fly, could this also be the larval stage of something? Forgive me if we have discussed these before, I tried to key in flat worm and filter material and was unable to find anything on the site in previous posts.

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[Shoestring Ponder]

Guess I may have found it: http://www.pond-life...latworm-1.html#Jw posted something about them back at the end of June. Am not sure if they are one and the same though. Gonna have to research further.

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[HARO]

Looks like small leeches.
John

 

[j.w]

I posted about Black Fly Larvae. Can't tell if you have those or not. Sorta looks like you have the leeches as Haro suggests tho.

 

[Shoestring Ponder]

I believe I have what you referenced in my second post. From what I read, they are a relative of leeches. I have to fully read the link I reposted that you originally posted. LOL

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[j.w]

The 2nd post I could not get to the link. It kept saying "Problem loading page.

 

[Shoestring Ponder]

https://www.gardenpondforum.com/topic/6987-flat-worms/page__hl__flat+worm__fromsearch__1

Here is the link to the link you gave when these critters were discussed before. Hope it works. Scroll down and JW you wrote out a description as well as the next post you posted the site.

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[j.w]

Ahhhhhhhh,I remember that one now. It could be them but I've never seen them in person.

 

[lenny jewell]

ahhh leeches i had one of those ... but i divorced her ......... hahahahaha ... just a joke don't everybody get all crazy about it !