Hi...The larvae are probably black soldier fly larvae. If you add a lot of browns and let the compost become drier, they will probably dissappear. The larvae (in my opinion) help break down the material and what is left will turn to compost. I welcome the BSL larvae in my compost...others strongly disagree. Best of luck..

Sounds as though you have a healthy dose of Black Soldier Fly larvae. Thay are very useful for getting rid of scraps but they don't leave you much bulk.Just try to work in as many browns as you can scrape up. They will soak up a lot of the nutrients the fly larvae leave behind and they won't eat things like hay, dead leaves and straw. Shredded cardboard from boxes may help also. You might be able to get more advice on the Vermicomposting forum.

Oh, Black Soldier Fly larvae are all the rage right now.
Very popular pets. ;)

Here is a link that might be useful: BioPod Food Composter

When organic material goes thru them, it becomes composted organic material. A worm in fly form, poopin' good stuff. Just doin' their job as part of the cycle.
hortster

The adult Black Solder Fly does nothing in its short life except fly around looking for another to mate with to produce the eggs that hatch into the maggots that consume dead organic matter. The maggots do consume a lot of dead organic matter but since it can be difficu;lt to distinguich between them and the maggots of house flies or stable flies and because, other then being a food source for some other critters there is no really good reason to allow them to hang around.
At one time people that mistook the Black Solder Fly for the Black Solder Beetle, a predator of other insects, thought it good to have them. Hopefully no one still has that misinformation.

Thank you. I'll try to find more browns. I figured that might be part of it. Maybe I can buy some hay.

I use compressed coconut coir found at gardening centers everywhere. it's inexpensive and absorbs some of the moisture. My question is this ; do I want those things in my garden?

There is nothing dangerous or pest-like about Black Soldier Flies. they are part of the greater food web, and do an excellent job of recycling nutrients back into the environment for other living organisms (including us) to use. Yes, you want them in your garden.

Martha

I am fine with sf larvae - I’ve notice they really turn up if there is large chunky stuff like melon rinds or whole fruits- but I do tend to need more dry stuff in my kitchen compost outdoors which is in separate closed bins compared to yard waste compost,
which I leave open. I like to compost paper items from house rather than put in trash, so I compost used paper towels ( try not to use very many) , tissues, parchment cooking paper, thin cardboard tubes, some newspaper torn into shreds, other thin cardboard items I can tear into pieces, bits of mail.
I add many of the smaller of these directly to my kitchen compost cannister so that things are already somewhat mixed and less juicy. It does mean it fills up faster but since things are less messy and not pure wet veg matter, I’m not sure I’d take it out less often.
I would hate to have to add purchased processed coir as “ browns” to make compost, but in one way I could see that if there’s no other source, it’s kind of similar to adding coir to garden but putting it through this other step. But some people aren’t aware that lots of paper/ cardboard things they throw away do great in the compost and are necessary to keep kitchen scraps from being too garbage-y in the compost.
Also since I do have more than one composter going with yard waste, I can often take a few handfuls of leaves and add a layer to the outside kitchen composter.