Gosh these little fellas I have never seen before they are not what was in my dalek bins! Whatever they were...didnt affect any of the crops I had, and I have only just seen the last of the tomatoes and nasturtiums too because of the frost a couple of days ago...but still have physallis in flower and am still cropping them hurray. Well done Jo47 you are a brilliant photographer.
Springtails are indeed good guys. As well as their crucial role in recycling they have this amazing springing organ under their abdomen which can propel them comparatively vast distances into the air when they're disturbed. As you will have noticed.
I wonder if the wormy things might be nematodes. There are loads of species - a few cause damage to plants, a few eat nasties like slugs but most are decomposers, eating/breaking down dead stuff in the soil - or compost bin. Maybe there just happens to be a mixture in there that suits them and they've had a population explosion.
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Gosh these little fellas I have never seen before they are not what was in my dalek bins! Whatever they were...didnt affect any of the crops I had, and I have only just seen the last of the tomatoes and nasturtiums too because of the frost a couple of days ago...but still have physallis in flower and am still cropping them hurray. Well done Jo47 you are a brilliant photographer.
Springtails are indeed good guys. As well as their crucial role in recycling they have this amazing springing organ under their abdomen which can propel them comparatively vast distances into the air when they're disturbed. As you will have noticed.
I wonder if the wormy things might be nematodes. There are loads of species - a few cause damage to plants, a few eat nasties like slugs but most are decomposers, eating/breaking down dead stuff in the soil - or compost bin. Maybe there just happens to be a mixture in there that suits them and they've had a population explosion.
The little white flies I have in my compost bin are flies and fly out in millions! when I lift the lid - should I leave the lid off. Help
Don't worry Jayne - they're not nasty aphid whitefly. Had them in my compost for yeas and never seen them on any plants I used the compost on.
They're natural and good so put on your lid and let themget on with it