They look like long thin tadpole type things with a longish tail attached.
About 2 c.m lengh of body and 1.5 c.m. of tail. There are 4 of them and they keep intertwining. Slug like in appearance and scary to look at.
No photo as it's a bit dull out there now. The bucket is like a small pond and full to the brim of diry rainwater.

Could they be larvae? Any ideas?

can you get a flash light n take a pic?

Leech?

Will try tomorrow as a photographer – hubby say's the flash will just reflect off the water.

They're definitely not tadpoles as we have plenty of those in the pond.

Don't think leech either, as the tail is a definite tail and not just a thinner part of the creature.
I was fasinated by the intertwining actions.

Mosquito larvae?

Smooth Newt tadpoles?

Mosquito Larvae, love standing water

Smooth Newt Larva

Will get photo in the morning, as it's none of the above.

You'd have to be quite a nature lover to feel anything but mild scorn for whatever revolting thing is spawning in a manky bucket. 🙂

dragonfly larvae ?

Sounds, to me, suspiciously like the spawn of the devil!

I'd get some holy water in that bucket as soon as, and stand well back.

thing is spawning in a manky bucket.

I know the feeling.

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Weird, aren't they? Mrs NBT thinks the smaller black things are midge larvae: they are about 5 or 6 mm long. There's also a big ol' frog living in the bucket and he came out to play. The wriggly wotsits were all over him and he didn't gobble them up.

holy cow…..freaky. really big sperm? 😆

That is very weird. The black things are midge larvae, no idea at all about those "wriggly wotsits"

Giant sperm?

albino tadpoles?

walla24 – Member

holy cow…..freaky. really big sperm?

Or very small bucket! certainly neither my sperm or ex…

clearly not of this earth
nuke from orbit

Albino Tadpoles?

Does your hubby visit the bucket often?

Maybe you need a chat with him!

🙂

Monkey spunk.

*Thread closed*

Rat tailed maggots, Hover fly larvae.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat-tailed_maggot

Baby robin larvae

Damn you Dave, just found it myself, Grrrrrrr!

I didn't have to find it, I knew 8)

FFS…….from Dave's link :

"Flies, attracted to feces, may deposit their eggs or larvae near or into the anus, and the larvae then penetrate further into the rectum. They can survive feeding on feces at this site, as long as the breathing tube reaches towards the anus."

Whatever you do Bunnyhop, don't place your exposed bum over the bucket 😯

Whatever you do Bunnyhop, don't place your exposed bum over the bucket

Thats maybe how they got there in the first place ernie. Bunnyhop's a northerner – no indoor cludgey, hence the bucket in the garden. 😆

A bucket damn she's from a posh family we have a hole in the ground.

You've got a hole in the ground? So you've got ground have you? Well let me tell you this posh lad- I don't even have a bum, let alone anything to point it at!

This thread is starting to give a whole new meaning to the term "I ain't got a pot to piss in". 😕

Or is that just a Southern term ?

Terrible language, that should be I ain't got a pot in which to piss (quote 1st St Trinians film)

Oh my! I'm sitting here laughing my old wellies off. Feeling sick also on looking up Dave's link.

Oh and welcome back sharkie (blows kisses your way).

They look scary enough coiled around each other, on their own the wee beasties look even yukkier.

Have now spent the late afternoon pouring out the contents of large bucket down the drain with the help of my young nepwhew, who insisted on going in there with both hands and pulling out the frog.

Down the drain???

Then they'll be back up the pipes and into your loo! 😯

& back up your bum!!

Yep Angela, that did occur to me only after reading Dave's link, which of course was way too late.

Yep…all Dave's fault…with his too bloody late link!! 🙄

8)

Edric 64 – Member

Terrible language, that should be I ain't got a pot in which to piss (quote 1st St Trinians film)

I think the scariest thing on this thread is that he knows enough about the film to quote it!