Ok so I for sure have some fungus gnats, no big deal, I realize they are relatively harmless, and I plan to control them by getting sand to layer the top of my containers with. BUT, I looked at my soil, and as my eyes adjusted, I saw little critters crawling all over!!!! Like I said, I'm aware that I DO have gnats, and plan to address them tomo, but My levels of flying gnats aren't absurd, however, it looked like there was ALOT of things walking around on my soil surface. little bitty bugs, the super small ones were green, then some red ones that are a little bigger, and then some strait up gnats with wings walking and flying around. They are too big and too fast to be spider mites....I have no idea, my only guess is baby gnats?
Are these other non flying bugs just baby gnats, or another type of insect that i'll need to address?
I"m stumped as to why they are thriving if they are gnats. I just transplanted to new pots that the roots havent filled out yet, so my soil only needs water like every 4-5 days, BUT, the top dries out quickly, which is where they supposedly lay eggs. So the top soil only is moist and optimum for the gnats like once every 5 days...Could they still be thriving deeper below the surface?