Bugs In A Worm Bin

Compost Creatures: Bugs (and More) Found in a Worm Bin

			Worms Redworms (a.k.a. red worms, Eisenia fetida) Worm Birth - Worm Cocoon – Worm Reproduction Perionyx excavatus (often mistaken for red worms) Pot worms (a.k.a. potworms, white worms, Enchytraeids doerjesi) Planarian (a.k.a. Land Planarian, Flat Worm) Ants Ant Fire Ant Flies Soldier fly Fruit fly Cluster fly Other Invertebrates Bacteria (Soil Bacteria) Centipedes Cockroach Earwig Flea Beetle Fungus (Fungi) Fungus Gnats Grub (June Bug) Millipedes Mites Mold Potato Bug (a.k.a. Jerusalem Cricket) Pseudoscorpion Rove Beetle (Devil’s Coachhorse) Slug and Snail Sow Bug (a.k.a. pill bug, roly poly bug, wood lice) Spider Springtail Yeast
Ant	Fire Ant	Pseudoscorpion

Bacteria	Fruit Fly	Redworms

Beetle	Fungus - Fungi	Slug and Snail
		Photograph by Dorie Rose
Centipedes	Fungus Knat	Soldier Fly

Cluster fly	Planarian	Sow Bug

Cockroach	Millipede	Spider
	Mites in worm bin by Jerry Avillion
Earwig	Mite	Springtail

Flea Beetle	Mold	Worm Birth

Jerusalem Cricket (aka Potato bug)	Pot Worm (White Worms)	Yeast
		Photo by Amy Weishuhn
Grub (June Bug)	Rove Beetle (Devil’s Coachhorse)	Perionyx excavatus