Theres something strange in my.........

[binley100]

....compost tea bin. They are a white/grey colour .Shaped a bit like those torpedo sweets you used to get, but with a long stringlike tail. The little ones wiggle about but the bigger ones just float . The container stinks but I'm guessing thats usual with nettles etc. Any clues on what these things are and are they harmful ?

[rana]

Seems like you have some rat tailed maggots. These live in fouled or fetid water where the oxygen levels are low. The tail is used as a siphon or snorkel as an aid to respiration. The adult is a type of hover-fly, otherwise known as a drone fly.

[binley100]

uuuurgghhhhh. This is the nettle tea bin. If its that fouled should it be used on plants?

[taff]

it's supposed to be like that, you're ok to use it

[Two_Sheds]

I'd throw it on the compost heap, but's not much fun dispensing it while drone flies are buzzing and hatching all around and over you, and bluebottles are chasing you up and down the garden path.

I now do my stinky teas in sealed containers (5 litre water bottles)

[binley100]

It's a lot to chuck on the compost heap. It's in a dustbin
However my comfrey tea is in a sealed homebrew barrel

[Nicos]

Give it to Incy- she needs it at the bottom of her garden!

[binley100]

She's welcome to it , Anyone willing to transfer it bottles for transport ?

[taff]

if you can get your hands in there, just pull out all the lumpy bits and chuck them on your veg somewhere, or compost heap, then cover up the liquid you've got left

[binley100]

The lumpy bits were in a fishing keep net so that's now been hauled out and emptied on the compost heap and I've covered the bin over with some perspex sheet and wood to keep it on .

[chris]

Everytime I see this thread on the index page, I sing the Ghost busters song in my head !!!! arghhhhh