After 11.5mm of rain it seems we are back in the game of having a greywater wetland in the dam, and some interesting bugs in the pond.

We've been running greywater into the dam for the last month so it was well wet up when the rains came (the sump I dug last year for the tadpoles had water in it) and now we have a good amount of free water, hopefully it will last for a while. You can see the greywater contribution - foam on the surface of the water (picture below). There's nothing much happening in it yet. 

In contrast, there seems to be quite a bit happening in the pond. Last year we saw these bugs around June 16, with little red helper mites. They're back after the rain, in big (for the pond) drifts against the edge of the pond and bits of pond vegetation, though there are no signs of the mites yet.