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Thanks for the help so far... I have a vinyl pool. I vacuumed to waste when I had a lot of this stuff and put the discharge hose in a pail - see the dust that I collected. It is a very fine dust. I added some acid to the dust and it bubbled and dissolved it. See pictures of the dust, acid, and...

I have quite a few of these also.... I take a badminton racket and whack them out of mid-air and crush them (to avoid any suffering for the bee).... They are not totally gone yet, but their numbers are down this year... I am winning the battle :) They are amazing flyers... they hover...

My wife took a water sample in, but didn't record the results. The guy tested "all 9 chemicals" and they were all good. He gave her a flocculent.... but the water is not cloudy... I'll get the actual #'s, but the recent test was: 3 free chlorine 3 total chlorin 7.4 ph 140 TA 30 CYA 100...

I have a very fine powder on the bottom of my pool. When I vacuum, it is so fine that it passes right through the sand filter and comes back in the pool. When I brush it, it clouds up quickly and eventually re-settles. Otherwise water is clear. I have been vacuuming to waste and refilling...

My liner has torn open above the water line. The tear is now 12" and growing... Liner is about 5-7 years old. The liner was stretched in this area during install; the liner never seated totally where the bottom meets the wall and you can see the vinyl pattern is more stretched here. The...