March 30th, 2009

How to get rid of biting bugs in my swimming pool?

April love asked:


There are these little round blackish-brown bugs in my swimming pool and they bite me within minutes of getting in the pool. I have no idea what they are but I’d like to get rid of them. Any ideas?

Evangelina
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2 Responses to “How to get rid of biting bugs in my swimming pool?”

  1. loni Says:
    March 31st, 2009 at 10:46 am

    Edmond

    Add a chemical. What about chlorine? (I’m not sure what that does but it apparently keeps the bugs away as well as cleaning the pool.

  2. Heather G Says:
    April 3rd, 2009 at 6:41 am

    Carlotta

    I am trying to find out the same thing. Unfortunately, I haven’t found how to get rid of them get but I did find out what they are called. I am pasting some information about the bug. Copy and paste the name of it and google it to see the picture and see if this is the same bug. I hope this helps a little. I will continue to look for how to get rid of these little biters and share the infor with you.

    Notonectidae: Diagnostic characters: similar to corixids but convex and with front tarsi unmodified; beak more elongate and segmented.
    Backswimmers occur in standing waters where they swim upside down in the water column in search of prey, often by sneaking up on them from below. Males also stridulate by rubbing the fore legs against the beak. They also bite! Notonecta insulata, Minnesota.

    POOLFORUM Website stated that shocking the pool will help get rid of the young ones and it says that they eat algae. If you can do that on a ragular basis and work to keep the algae and dead bugs out, it should help lower the amount of them anyways. I going to my pool now to do it and pray that it works. Have a great day and I hope that this information helps. HAPPY SWIMMING.