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HELP! What are these bugs?

If it's not one thing it's another lol. I went to water my plants tonight and one of the saucers had a ton of these little grey bugs in it. Does anybody know what these are and the best way to treat for them? I have a ton of food grade diatomaceous earth on hand so I'll apply that to the soil, and probably the saucer once it's dry. I took like 40 pictures, but these were the only ones that came out clear enough at all :/.

I couldn't find any in the soil or any litle larvae of any sort wriggling around (though that doesn't mean they aren't there). There was like 1 in the saucer for the next closest plant, and the other two pots/saucers in the tent had none.

These look too heavy bodied to me to be fungus gnats but I could very well be wrong. (We had a bad fungus gnat infestation due before we planted that we got cleared up)

Thanks in advance!
 

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Hard to see in the pics, just a guess, winged ants, if thats what they are there would be a lot of them.
 
Can you grab some clear tape and drop it on top of one? Then put your jewelers loupe on it and take a pic so we can help identify it?
 
Well despite there having been a ton of them before, since I washed them out the other night there haven't been any, so problem managed, if not solved.

Definitely not winged ants (body isegments are far ​to non-distinct), and they're not gnat larvae, they were in hard plastic, plus they had wings and weren't larval.

I'll just keep my eyes peeled for now in case they come back I suppose.
 
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