little white flies

Help need please!!!

I have just checked my compost bin and it has loads of little white flies in it, is this a bad sign??

 

No - life in a compost bin is a good sign. All flies start life as a maggot and "maggots make marvelous mulch"!!

 

I have a massive amount of white flies in my compost heap and have had all through the winter. I do find that they love the kitchen waste and don't like lawn cuttings and news paper/cardboard etc. So probabley covering the kitchen waste with some of the other might do it. But everyone tells me it sh ouldn't effect the rest of the garden. I'm not so sure-but maybe they will stay contained where there is a good meal and when it's time to put the compost on the garden they will probabley have died off.