Pond worm

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Theo4

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I collect rain water from the roofs of my new barn, stables and store. Have done for years with no trouble. This year I filled up my bucket from the 1000 gallon drum connected to my new large barn roof and got half a bucket of the most horrible worms. This has been going on now for several weeks but in smaller quantities but they are in every water collection buckets. I have emptied them and washed out but when it rains they appear again.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Does anyone know where they come from and are they harmful. I took a jam jar full to my vets who said they are pond worm and only live in water and are not harmful to my horses.
 
Are they the little red ones? They are in our water troughs too. I can only think they come from the birds that sit on the trough or in the summer I believe its mossie larvae?
 
Mosquito. But I think I actually meant midge flies.

A photo you took you need to upload to a site such as photobucket and paste the link on here or if you go advanced when writing a reply to me on here then there is an attachment button.
 
Trying to download my photo but not managed. They are grey and about 4 cms long. Flatish. They are decreasing now but for about 6 weeks or so have been abundant. I wondered how so many can be washed down off the roof into the water containers when it poured down for days. I was tidying my muck heap up (squaring it off and flattening it) and was amazed to see the number of worms in it (I am going to have it moved soon)
 
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