They eat live and dead plant material, and fungus.
I don't know exactly what kind of fungus, but if they eat any fungus, then that counts pathogenic ones as well, which would be great!
I have millions of these. I hate them! they just look so creepy when so many of them come at the surface of the pot after watering.
They must have come into my collection via plants I bought. They seem almost ubiquitous in greenhouses where many plants are grown.
I noticed that some pots have none, and some have a lot. These also move quickly to neighboring pots and multiply, hence, I had nearly none years ago, but then now they are found in at least good 30% of my pots.
When I water pots with high population of these bugs, I would repeat filling up and draining the pots many times trying to keep the numbers down, but some are bound to stay inside the pot and they seem to multiply quite fast.
They will break down the potting mix, but I guess their poop might add to the fertilization? hahaha
I gave up on them other than this active rinsing and hence keeping the numbers down as much as possible.
They seem harmless other than creeping me out.
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