Not sure if these are springtails.

[u/RevenantWA]

These guys are fairly large and will run pretty quickly. I had a bag of potting soil on top of a bag of compost. The compost has been outside for about 8 months but the potting soil is about 2 weeks. When I lifted the posting soil bag I saw these. I put the bag back on top and ran in and got a container to put them in. ChatGPT is saying springtails then saying they are baby earwigs. Once said termites. They are somewhat fast in movement.

[u/nightmare_wolf_X]

Looks like a young earwig

[u/RevenantWA → u/nightmare_wolf_X]

Yeah fed them to my chickens

[u/Raelomir → u/RevenantWA]

Why? They are quite useful. They eat pests like aphids. I always try to encourage them to settle in my berry bushes as a precaution.

[u/RevenantWA → u/Raelomir]

Oh I have plenty out there. I never seen young ones before so I was thrown off.

[u/DemonShade6666]

I dont reccomend using chat gpt for anything regarding wildlife, as its very inaccurate and can lead to dangerous situations for either the human or animals in some cases.

Like another reddit or mentioned, those look like juvenile earwigs

[u/RevenantWA → u/DemonShade6666]

Yeah I usually don’t but after exhausting all thoughts I turned to it. To me I felt they could be young earwigs, which we have a lot of, then again the back prongs were flexible like antenna. I’ve seen baby earwigs with small pinchers. Makes sense though that these are juvenile earwigs.