10 (ish) Garden Pond Creatures

[@sj-tl5km]

Wrll done Neil, amazing footage

[@PondLab]

Thanks

[@ldarm]

Very good

[@PondLab]

Thanks!

[@JPLamoureuxsTravels]

Absolutely fantastic buddy! Quality footage and information, I’m hooked! 😉👍

[@PondLab]

Thanks JP!

[@warboats]

your footage is outstanding. such a cool channel makes me wish i had a bloody pond

[@NaturallyCuriousUK]

Nice round-up of the likely finds for a pond dip! 👍

[@PondLab]

Thanks Graham

[@sugarycricket]

Can confirm backswimmer bites hurt a lot, little me found that one out after getting one out of a chlorinated pool and holding it for too long while it was distressed. Excellent video, you captured a lot of detail in your recording of these beautiful creatures :)

[@PondLab]

Ouch! and thank you :)

[@scheissegeist]

For years I have seen these little creatures in a vernal pool on my family's land and thanks to this video it seems likely now that they are a species of flatworm!

[@PondLab]

Glad it was of help :)

[@emmajayne2373]

Brilliant! So glad you shared this in the pond group😊

[@PondLab]

Thank you :)

[@drsmook]

Awesome channel! Also, love muse! I have one of the Bellamy/Manson guitars!

[@PondLab]

Thanks, and very cool!

[@shaash5236]

It’s a lot of work to put out a video like this. So good.

[@PondLab]

Thank you, spent all yesterday finishing it off!

[@karenfiona8343]

Thanks for the video, love the inofrmation and clear video of the little creatures. , i have created ponds in my garden to specifically to attract wildlife. My all time favourite is Dragonflies and have been lucky enough to watch and photograph several Nymphs transform into dragonflies, take their first flight, come back and land on my hand and fly off again.

[@PondLab]

Thanks and that sounds like some fab dragonfly encounters - sadly they dont seem to like my garden pond very much! (but I have loads of frogs so cant complain!)

[@fubband]

Awesome stuff, Neil, hope it goes really well for you 👍🏻 Great T-shirt too 🎸

[@PondLab]

Thank you! I must get round to setting up another sell on demand T shirt store for that design!

[@AntLab]

Great video!

[@PondLab]

Thanks, means a lot coming from you! Ive already commented somewhere on here about the story of how I came up with the name, was going to wander over to your channel and tell you but Ill do it here - long story short I didnt want to use the "Pond Man" as it sounds like a pond maintenance company! Then one day I randomly thought of Pond Lab, thought it sounded great and wondered how I hadnt thought of it before....then a few days later logged in and realised, like most my 'original' ideas, it was actually more than a bit inspired by someone elses - your excellent channel! Which i had been watching (read binging the videos) a few weeks before! doh!

[@PondLab]

Oh I forgot to say - that video Rove beetle with a projecting mouth was so cool!

[@AntLab]

@@PondLab excellent! I'm honored and looking forward to watching more!

[@suebarnett-naturegazing]

Amazing filming on your video and so informative.

[@PondLab]

Thank you. :)

[@TheAdequateMedia]

if this is your footage. impressive

[@PondLab]

Thanks, yes it is :)

[@KenOmollo]

What camera and lens do you use?

[@PondLab]

Its a Panasonic Gh6 (with Om 90mm macro)

[@KenOmollo]

@PondLab Thanks a lot.

[@shaash5236]

So pleased you’re doing this. Thanks

[@PondLab]

More to come!

[@shaash5236]

@@PondLab good !

[@Raumpilot]

I have no clue how you got all these amazing clips of them feeding etc, I am highly impressed and will recommend your vid(s) to more freshwater ecologist in Europe ❤

[@PondLab]

Thank you!

[@petecross9470]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

[@PondLab]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@mikecoleridge8982]

Really looking forward to this series. I have 2 ponds in my garden, one of which has a good damsel and dragonfly clientele but apart from their larvae I am very ignorant regarding most of the other species. Good luck, Mike

[@PondLab]

Thanks, and prepare yourself, Dragonfly and Damselfly nymphs are just the tip of a pretty amazing iceberg!

[@youphototube]

I'm in. Thank you for the education into worlds less seen. Are you able to recommend a book on fresh water pond life for ID?

[@PondLab]

Best at the moment is Colins Freshwater Life, which is a nice overview, but there is a Wildguides book out next year by Nick Baker, which promises to be good. Though I'm biased as I'm supplying the images lol

[@RobertWalsh-f5y]

A very good book used here in Australia with oodles of good photos is The Waterbug Book 2002. Authors are Gooderham &Tysrlin. CSIRO Publishing.

[@PondLab]

@@RobertWalsh-f5y oh yes thats great too, Ive got a copy despite living in the UK!

[@perhapsasongortwo4812]

Heck yes.

[@PondLab]

Thanks!

[@StevenVacher]

Great info, I'll be looking at the leaches I sometime I find in my pond, I wonder if they are really leaches.

[@PondLab]

thanks, Ive got a guide to 'pond worms' coming which should help even more with that :)

[@StevenVacher]

@@PondLab Cool, I look forward to that upload 😁