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"If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water."

Jan Erik Vold, What All The World Knows

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May 2014

We've had our first 100-degree day now, so we can go ahead and use the "h" word: HOT. But we've had a lovely spring following a very mild winter, so we have no need to complain.

As the temperature climbs, let's all remember that it's WAY hotter in our vehicles than it is outside. PLEASE do not leave children or pets locked in a car. Unfortunately, we hear stories of this on the news all the time, and once is too often.

Ponderings

Twitterpations

You may notice that from time to time, you have a "foaming" or "scum" on the water surface, which disappears in a couple of days. Quite mysterious? Not really. To put it bluntly, your fish are gettin' busy!

Yep, it's Spring, and love is in the air -- and the water. If you don't have any kind of vector control in your pond, like Gambusia, you will have baby fish soon. If you do have Gambusia, they eat the eggs. Roe is one of their favorite treats, second only to mosquito larvae.

So, don't panic, nature is simply taking it's course in your pond!

Mosquito Defense

Defending Against the West Nile Virus

Most biologists agree that a well-built backyard pond, stocked with fish, is the cure for the West Nile Virus. As a matter of fact, a common lawn uses more water and requires much more maintenance effort than an average backyard pond, and generally adds chemical compounds to the ground water and pollution to the air - not to mention the noise pollution to the neighbors from mowing & blowing. For a landscape feature which provides nothing beneficial to native wildlife (unless you consider pigeons and grackles to be desirable wildlife), many, if not most, lawns regularly hold enough standing water to breed thousands of mosquitoes. Well, that's not good!

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Take care, and happy pondering!

Sincerely,

The Pond Gnome

22767 N. 104th Ln.

Peoria, AZ 85383

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