Earwigs are beneficial insects that primarily consume dead plants and other insects, contributing to garden cleanliness. While earwigs can cause minor plant damage, their benefits generally outweigh ...

FEMALE EARWIGS are reported to be excellent mothers. Early in their relationship, both parents share a nest but as things develop the male leaves of his own accord or is driven out by his partner and ...

Q: I have had a ton of earwigs in my garden this year. They eat holes in my flowers and they crawled inside a napa cabbage and chewed it all up. I’m finding drowned earwigs in my hummingbird feeder. A ...

Summertime brings about a few different things: hot temperatures, rainy days, and creatures that can startle. One creepy summertime crawly you could be seeing is an earwig. Here's what to know if you ...

The tiny common earwig seemed out of place when it wandered onto the apron of the parkade where I sleep. He was known to much prefer damp, dark, dingy crawl spaces to dry, brightly lit spans of ...

Summer hit in the past two weeks, and the onslaught of the earwig population hit right along with it. What is it about these creepy little black bugs, with the pincers on the front, that brings them ...

How can I stop earwigs from eating my dahlias? They’re munching on the petals and making the flowers look tatty even before they’ve fully opened. Is there an organically friendly way of preventing ...

You try your best to make your home hospitable for guests—but not the insect kind. Earwigs will seek shelter in your home—often in the bathroom, basement or kitchen, as these places offer ideal ...

and others) have always given me the creeps. As a child I believed that their rear-mounted pincers were dangerous to people. Actually, the pincers are used to manipulate food and during mating.