Composting

     Does anyone have a web address for a site which will help me identify 
     the things living in my compost so I know whether or not they would be 
     harmeful to my plants if I spread it on the garden?
     
     There are tiny almost translucent worms less than a thumnail long and 
     lots of small flies with brownish orange bellies.  I compost garden 
     and vegetarian kitchen waste in a black plastic woven bin with some 
     air holes though it tends to get too soggy, and I used well rotted 
     horse manure as the catalyst.
     
     There was a mouse nesting in the shredded newspaper I'd added to 
     improve the moisture balance, but I persuaded her to leave only to 
     find she tunnelled under the shed instead.
     
     TIA
     Karen in Cheshire

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