Forum: Pools, Pets and Creepy Critters

Does anyone know how to keep these green-headed biting flies away. Theyre not around all the time, but theyre relentless when they do show up.

What a strange looking bug! It was swimming in and under the water with the greatest of ease:eek: With legs that appeared to be backwards. ...

Hi - I'm looking to get an above ground pool but am a bit leary knowing that my lab will be in and out of the pool and don't want to keep replacing...

At dawn and sunset weve got a large amount of bees that have dug "ant hole" looking mounds around the perimeter of the pool. They were here last...

I have a pool that seems to be infested with Japanese beetles. I clean it every day and the next morning it seems as if there are twice as many in...

We will be closing on a house with a pool in about two weeks. The current owner has a solar blanket on a roller, but I am worried about my dog...

Just wondering if anyone else is having problems with fire ants. We are in south central Texas. After every rain they come out in force with the...

Has anyone had a problem with large spiders living near the pool? These are very strange looking--reddish-pink bodies and they crawl in and out of...

That would be horse flies, deer flies, gad flies, and etc. With our pools we've created the perfect breeding habitat for them. At our place, we have...

Had a baby turkey in my skimmer the other day when I opened the pool. It was about 10 inches tall. I opened the top and thought what the heck is...

It is not what I found in the pool, it is what I found under the pool! I guess a Mole got under the vinyl liner in the winter and there is just a...

Everyday I get about 20 dead spiders in the bottom of my pool. It's become part of my routine to jump in with goggles and skimmer (without pole) and...

Hi folks. Just took the cover off the pool today! To my suprise the pool has millions of mosquito larvae. Now this is a 24' above ground pool! I am...

Help! We are being eaten alive! It is so hot in the midwest and we are doing a bunch of evening swims. Any tips for eliminating them? We have a...

Just a quick question. I had a mouse living in my vacuum hose. When I hooked it up there must have been some remnants of feces because the skimmer...

Sadie loves to swim in the pool, especially when others are. Not a problem most of the time. We usually put her in the garage with Milk Bone for a...

the other day. It was early a.m. and I had my 3 dogs out with me to shut off power to the automatic pool cover pump since we didn't get the rain...

My dogs are drinking water from the pool which is saltwater. There is a bowl of freshwater near by but still they lap up water from the pool. Is this...

I have a gazillion little bitty flying ants that end up in the pool. They are so small that they could be little flecks of wood. I can spend a whole...

I can think of a thousand questions but let me start with the two that are preventing me from pulling the trigger :) We have a problem with moles...

I have a question about those little swimming bugs, i think they are called back swimmers. After i had my pool up for about 2 days (in the yard, no...

Well it looks like I’m on the verge of a nut grass invasion there are over a dozen pointed things poking up in the bottom of my liner. They are...

I have an above ground pool. We got it last year so this is the first full summer with it and everything is still new. Well this year the outsides...

So... in the last week I've had to fish 3 mice out of my pool.... One of them I "rescued" as it was still alive and swimming for dear life, and...

I would love to spend time around the pool outside in the evening however we're next to some wetlands and there are tons of mosquitos and other pests...

Just bought my house with an IG and need to fence it so my baby, Miss Emmy Lou, doesn't jump in and drown. She's an English Bulldog and they DO NOT...

this year is only the second year we've had the pool last year, i assume because the install was fresh, we didn't have "the problem" this year,...