When one of my lettuce plants started wilting, I pulled on it and found I could just pull it straight out of the soil with no resistance. On the roots, I found these maggots. (You may need enlarge the picture a bit.)
Does anybody know what these are?
How likely is it that those are why the lettuce started dying?
Can they spread to other nearby potted plants?
What can you do against these?
That soil looks very wet. Maybe that's why the lettuce wasn't happy?
Yeah, if the roots rotted they make great food for insect larvae.
Yes, that's probably part of it.