Orange/Brown Bugs

[NewHere28]

Thanks. I'm sending one now hope it's clearer. I cleaned them out of the skimmer so this picture has less concentration but it is in macro.

[PoolDoc]

I got your picture, below. (Watermom, don't look! ;-)

The first is a reduced version of your pic; the second is a full size crop (no reduction!) of the only 'critter' that was close to being in focus. I emailed my son, who is a biologist. He looked at them, and after noting that they were small blurs, wrote this:

"your red blurs are not identifiable. probably a thrip (money on this one if i had to choose), but maybe a silverfish-, springtail-, bristletail-, zoropteran-type thing. or a even larva of something else (but i don't think so)"

But, he also noted that your pool chemistry is unlikely to have anything to do with their presence. It may not even have anything to do with the fact that you've got a body of water there. He'll look again, if you can get better pics, but he'd need something that clearly delineates body parts.

Ben

reduced original:


cropped but un-reduced closeup:

[NewHere28]

The thing is these things are SO tiny. I looked at the with a magnifying glass and could not even figure out how many legs etc.

[PoolDoc]

Neither could my son. I didn't include it, but his first question was, "Dad, why do you want me to try to ID these blurs?"

[NewHere28]

haha yea that's exactly what they look like they are seriously microscopic but everywhere!

[Watermom]

YUCK! YUCK! YUCK!

Ben knows I'm not exactly a "creepy, crawly, creature" kind of girl. Hey -- at least its not spiders! Or "spyders" as Al (Poconos -- my fellow mod) makes fun of me for pronouncing it with a very long "i" sound. He also thinks its funny that sometimes my "Onstar" and "Bluetooth" in my car can't understand me when I am entering phone numbers. He tells me they don't talk "southern" like I do. Hey -- he's from up north. I think "they" talk funny!

But, at any rate, sorry you've got bugs, but please keep them!