eggs in worm bin – Crazy About Compost

a quick worm update.

I haven't fed the worms in over two weeks, now they're finally starting to show their faces a bit more each time I open the lid... they're eating away from their castings and towards the surface. As of yet, they haven't chowed down on the condom I put in there, but the mites/springtails are all over it. While cutting a tomato into smaller pieces over top of the worm bin, my dumb ass cut my finger. I hope they like blood. Whatever. I'm so psyched for the spring so I can put some of my worms into the compost tumbler... winter sucks.

Eggs in the Worm Bin… What Are They?

Eggs in the worm bin...sound about right? For those of you new vermicomposters out there, you have probably witnessed bunches of tiny moving white eggs along the rim of your worm bin, and maybe on some of the material. This is totally common when starting out and none other than a form of mites or springtails. They might look like this: These little guys are nothing more than moochers...they exist separately from your worms, other than when they snack on worm corpses, it seems. Apparently, they are a sign of imbalance in your worm bin...however, they like to munch on material that's not appealing to worms. Personally, I don't mind them because a presence of critters means you have an active habitat. To get the bin a little more stable:…