We have zero woods by us, but do have a large grassy park behind my backyard. We also get the occasional mole or turtle plus several frogs every week.
We have zero woods by us, but do have a large grassy park behind my backyard. We also get the occasional mole or turtle plus several frogs every week.
I get rolly-polly's the most, 10-15 a day sometimes. I also get a steady supply of spiders and centipedes and the occasional toad.
I am always amazed at the number of house flies that fly into the pool during the day. You can sit and watch them, I guess they can't see the water.
Jeff - I'd like to know why these spiders sink so quickly too. I bet you are getting what are known as Wolf Spiders. They are ground dwellers that don't keep webs like most spiders. They forage on the ground for their food and carry they egg sacks and hatched young on their abdomen. They are quite the creepy spider, and large too.
I pull at least 1 a day during the early part of the year. It slows down later on only to be replaced by the frogs. I free my frogs from the skimmers every morning. They crack me up when the jump right back in the pool and take off swimming.
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Phantomandy
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If you'll put a boogie board, pool noodle or frisbee in the water at night, the spiders will climb on it and you can remove them from the pool and THEN kill them. Watch out for the babies, though--looks like something out of a Stephen King movie when they scatter!!
Janet
I know poly 60 is the algaecide to use but, if you pour a little of the linear quats (I think it's ammonia based ?) on them they sink and twitch almost immediately - [sick laugh] - oh, sure you've then gotta vacuum them up, but there is a certain satisfaction in knowing that they won't be using your arm as a ladder out of the pool![]()
Luv & Luk, Ted
Having done construction and service for 4 pool companies in 4 states starting in 1988, what I know about pools could fill a couple of books - what I don't know could fill libraries
These people in West Virginia talk funny. They call them SPYDERS.
On a serious note I was infested with a good crop of caterpillars this Spring in Northeast PA. They seem to float when they die.
Al
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