Compost bin has massive insect eggs in it

[LovelyJudy]

What are they? they look like small baked beans, individual, dry, but I know they are eggs not beans because one of them has a wiggly white thing coming out. They appear to be being farmed by a billion ants. I'm concerned - i don't want ants in my compost bin, but I'm not sure why, and I'm really curious to know what the big eggs are from. They don't look like ant eggs, that's for sure. too big, and opaque.

I took this from another gareing site....

If your aim is to heat up the pile to make the conditions unlivable for the ants follow these steps: The compost needs carbon, nitrogen, water and air. Currently I am sure that the ants are aerating the pile a great deal, however, it would not hurt to turn it, using a pitch fork if your pile is small enough. Return to the pile every couple days and turn it again. You had mentioned that you pile is adequately moist. If you were to pick up a bit of the compost and squeeze it, it should feel moist, but no water should be dripping through your fingers. As for carbon and nitrogen, there is a ratio that is generally recommended: 30 to 1 (carbon to nitrogen). ?Brown? materials provide carbon, such as hay, fall leaves, sawdust and wood chips. Nitrogen can be found in ?green? materials such as grass clippings, weeds (be sure that they have not gone to seed), fruit and vegetables and used coffee grounds (not green, I know). If you are composting primarily green materials, add a layer of brown each time you visit the compost pile to try and maintain the ratio. If you follow all of these steps and have a large enough pile (at least 1 meter by 1 meter) the compost will heat up. This also speeds up the composting process making the material usable in a shorter amount of time.

It seems sensible

I don't know what your big eggs are from but there's nothing wrong with having ants in your compost bin.

Unless they are killer giant ants who will eat your house.

Cool thank you. i really really want to know what the massive creatures are going to be though. Maybe some kind of moth? butterfly? will do a bit more googling....

could they be from a tiny snake? or a little lizard?