Making your own insect spray from orange peel and more useful garden tricks with orange can be found here, Make sure you consistently cover your food/waste with a layer of dry cardboard every time. Let the top of your worm bin dry out: remove the lid (temporarily). A mixture of dish soap and water also seems to help but I wouldn’t want to have it in my worm bin.
I have never suffered from it myself but here I list some home garden and kitchen remedies that should help: Regularly wipe lid and edges so that the larvae are removed Spray with an orange spray. Whitefly is very annoying because it is harmful to your plants if they fly there. They live in harmony with your compost worms. Potworms can do no harm and help digest your waste. Potworms are often mistaken for baby worms: they are small and glassy/white. But if you have a lot of them, that’s probably another sign that the contents of your worm bin could use more cardboard and more oxygen. Do not be alarmed if you see that these mites eat your worms: They only eat dead or sick worms. They are not harmful, but if they are going to dominate your worm bin, it usually means that your worm bin is too wet and acidic: you add too little cardboard and perhaps a little too much waste so that no air can reach it. Under a magnifying glass you can see that they have small legs with which they can move slowly. They do not seem to move and are somewhat round and glassy.
White mite looks like small insect eggs to the naked eye.
Such as citrus peels and the harder pieces of waste. They eat fungi, and material that the worms ignore. Springtails are useful critters in your worm bin. Today it is only about the different (sometimes very useful) white bugs. I wrote about fruit flies and ants before. Usually that is not bad, sometimes it is annoying. It is normal that over time all kinds of other insects will inhabit your worm box.
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