This pothos has been in my vase since it was a cutting and now it has 5 leaves. I changed its water 3 weeks ago and added liquid fertiliser a week ago.
I just noticed these things swimming and crawling when i moved the jar. I am so freaked out right now, I wanna cry. What are they and how do I get rid of them?
The red one u see is a branch of Poinsettia that broke off from the parent plant so i dunked it in the jar to save it from dying.
Please help.
by forthehottea
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They’re the larvae of a mosquito species; I’d change the water & put something over the exposed lid so the females can’t access the water.
It is a LARVA!
Might be fungus gnat larvae
That plant cutting doesn’t look like a pothos, are you sure it’s not a poinsettia?
Mosquito larvae.
Just replace the water regularly. 3 weeks is too long for water replacement. I’d suggest once in a week.
Mosquito lavea (baby mosquitos)
Chat gpt told me it maybe well what it says. Could it be that and not larvae?
https://preview.redd.it/wnhn8hshdizf1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0f4481d164392526838165f126d9a37195ceb9c3
Drop some mosquito bits in the water and it will keep them from returning
Mosquito or if you insist you dont have mosquitos it might be the larvae of a related specie.
https://preview.redd.it/i8wmgl77hizf1.png?width=1440&format=png&auto=webp&s=7236d2ce8b86b1692e5141db742e6d4b62a16a49
Perfect timing for my reddit algo.
they’re admittedly really cute but are unfortunately mosquitoes
Baby mosquitoes
Pretty sure those are Aedes aegypti larvae. We have a lot of those here in Brazil
if you keep tro[ical fish you can just dump the larvae-infested water into the tank. Fishies will eat the little varmints.
Me in my head when I see this “ecosystem!!!”
bruh! have you ever seen mosquito larvae before?