Please tell me these are tadpoles

[Figmentofimagination]

After seeing a thread a few weeks ago about mosquito larvae swimming in some water that had a child's toy in, its got me wondering what these things are that have appeared in my pond today. Are they tadpoles or are they mosquitos?

The pond filter hasn't been on for a while as we've had our garage demolished so there has been no power outside, which probably makes the pond a perfect place for these things, whatever they are.

So wise And knowledgable MN, please advise what they are!

Thank you everyone for your advice.

My husband has started to drain it and take the plants out so he can clean it and the filter. He is then going to spend this weekend getting the pump and filter connected to the electrics again (it has been disconnected all summer until just over a week ago).

We do have a fountain and a small waterfall but we haven't used it this year since there has been no power outside. Hence why I haven't seen them before until this summer.

Definitely midge or mozzie larvae. Get some fish that solved our problem.

Prok German has great names for animals! I had a whole conversation about this with a German and an Austrian (focusing on snakes…)

@SupposedStudent
There's a TED talk about learning German mentioning names for snails .

Germans have the best words.

The best. Believe me.

But OP should definitely drain the swamp.