Bugs crawling on my plant's soil?

[Gardening purrple15]

What are the white/clear bugs crawling on my plant's soil?

 

[Chuck]

Send a picture

 

[Oliver Buckle]

A picture is favourite, but that is not a lot of information, size, shape, indoor plants or garden soil. White and crawling could be some sort of larvae, or almost anything.

 

[Gardening purrple15]

It is indoor.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

They are probably the laval stage of something, are you getting flies of some sort? That's the most likely. Is there any visible damage to the plants? If not they are probably living on the compost, and harmless.

 

[Gardening purrple15]

I have fruit flys.

 

[Oliver Buckle]

That sounds like it, not actually fruit flies, they live on rotting fruit, but something very similar whose larvae eat the compost. Firstly they are probably not harmful, possibly even beneficial releasing nutrients from the compost, but they may be unpleasant. Use a household hydrogen peroxide, not the concentrated industrial stuff, mixed one part peroxide to four or five parts water and use this to water your plants. That won't hurt the plants ,but should kill both maggots and eggs, and the flies disappear.

 

[Gardening purrple15]

Ok