Worms

[Matt_PEBKAC_Oh]

Found a new critter in the pool today. 2 horsehair worms. Learn something new every day.

They can be infested in bugs such as crickets (which they are in season in NW Ohio) and when adult stage, can leave their host and into water to leave to find a new host or to multiply. Good note is they are supposedly not deadly and don't infect anything but other bugs. Didn't take a chance the website was wrong so they have been netted and rubbed out.

Horsehair Worm

 

[kimkats]

ewwwww up and out they go for sure!!!! I would also push my FC up to SLAM to make sure they and any of their leavings is GONE!

 

[red-beard]

After rain storms, I regularly get earthworms...