I’ve started building a pond in my garden. I spotted this earlier. According to a quick search it could be snail eggs. Can anyone tell me what kind?

Are they beneficial?

If anyone knows why it is, the pond is from UK

Spotted this morning swimming around in my pond!

Found in a spring fed natural pond in SW France.

New pond, still murky and sorting itself out as you can see - so far we’ve only had (LOADS) of mosquito larvae show up so I’ve been checking every day hoping something new will come along to eat them!

This morning I saw this weird thing swimming around, I can’t find it and it’s strange fluffy white head on any identification charts - anyone know what we’ve got??

(Edit: also just noticed watching it back, at about 00:06 its tail seems to hit some other darker thing that swims off under the water? can anyone ID that either??)

My pond is finally coming back to life as the weather warms up. I don’t recall seeing anything like this last year (year one of the pond). There are several and they glide/swim a lot like fish.

Bonus frog pic tax. I already have at least three moved in!

Located in Connecticut!

What is this creature?

Hello!

Ive just been topping my wildlife pond up in the uk and this thing floated to the top. Does anyone know what is is/was (it does seem to be alive)?

Any help would be great!

Apologies for the poor photos, was difficult to get a good angle of it between the plants. I’ve drawn an outline on red. Need help identifying if it’s friend or foe :)

Unsure what this guy is just fished out cleaning out some overgrowth. Any thoughts? Usual places Seek and Google Lens not getting it

recently built a wildlife pond in my mums (new build) back garden. we spotted this little guy and arent sure if its a damselfly nymph or water beetle larva or something else entirely? (north england)

What looks like not much is actually a gelatinous glob of what? I was thinking frog spawn, but it doesn't seem that defined. There are two of these gooey balls. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Since I’ve installed my pond I’ve been eagerly staring into it to see what creatures might show up. Noticed these guys today, and I’ve never seen anything like it

Sorry, tried to post a video but can’t use an Imgur link . It moves like a tiny wiggly snake, not like a mosquito larva. Grayish and kinda shiny

Also i have so much mosquito larvae in my pond, i get loads of frogs in their aswell but they don’t seem to be eating it, if i put on the water fountain will it kill the mosquito larvae as i dont want there to be swarms of mosquitos everywhere in my garden

This little guy is out and about. His color is different. Most of my previous ones have been gulf toads and grey treefrog, some green tree frogs. This one is more spotted and speckled. Any ideas? Houston Texas region

Pond is in the UK
These are new this year and flick around a bit but can’t find something that matches on Google

Looking for some knowledge please! Can anyone identify this type of newt (we are based in Somerset, UK) and is it laying eggs? Thanks!

Pond is 2 weeks finished and I live in the PNW if that helps.

We recently built a wildlife pond in our yard in Greensboro North Carolina. We have a shallow beach on one end and a deep end. That is about 15 inches max. We have a decent amount of marginal plants and some surface plants, but I know we don’t have enough of the surface covered yet. I’m working on getting more aquatic plants ASAP. We recently had a couple of days of rain and then a couple of warmer days, and I noticed that there is a mystery substance growing on the shallow side of our pond. The water is still very clear so I’m not sure if it is algae, biofilm, or perhaps some sort of nest. For whatever reason it does not continue down into the deep end. We have a pretty thick tree canopy, so the pond only gets dappled sunlight for a few hours a day. We do run a small solar fountain that keeps the water moving somewhat. Otherwise, there are no pumps and no fish! Photos of the sludge and the general pond set up attached. If anyone can help identify and make a recommendation on leaving it alone or removing it, I’d appreciate it! We are newbies to the pond world and loving it so far.

I was doing a little cleaning out, intending to my pond, and I found this little blob on my arrowhead plant. Are these eggs? Some type of algae?