so this. you just put in the water. now we wait and see what creatures turn up. within two weeks, mosquito larvae and loads of them, but apparently these are bird mozzies, they don t bite people. try telling my wife that, though! then came these beauties. rat tailed maggots. they look fearsome but they will become hover flies. i promise. we were visited by damselflies and then these. 0k, there is four now, there is four. 0ne plopped in and fell down there. right, so, catherine, this is my pond. are you going to have a little dip? yes, iam. in early september, i invited an expert from the london wildlife trust around to take a look. suddenly the frogs arrived and basically they seem to have cleaned everything out, so you are getting far less. if you had come two months ago, this would have been teeming with life but i think they ve been cleaning the whole thing out. but the good thing is we can see life here.