Only about 1% of insect species show parental care. Earwigs are one of them. Females construct an underground chamber and lay 30 to 60 eggs which they protect and keep clean from fungi by ...

You lift a stone and staring up at you is a little insect with its tail curled and pincers ready to inflict who knows what. Then you see its attendants – tiny white insects, huddled underneath. Should ...

The insect’s wing is stable when open, but folds together automatically on even the lightest touch. In the next step, the researchers transferred the principle to larger elements and printed a spring ...

In German, earwigs are called “earworms”; in French, “ear piercers.” A 2016 survey of modern central European insect folklore reported that the critter “climbs in your ear and drills it ...

Earwigs can help a garden in multiple ways and seeing a few in and around your vegetables or flowers is no cause for alarm. In fact, like other scavenger insects, earwigs are best known for eating ...

Earwigs can bite people, but they rarely do. Instead, they’re more likely to pinch your skin and hold on tight. Here’s what to do if you get pinched.

Ew earwigs! 5 things you should know about these bugs Earwigs surprisingly want nothing to do with your ears but would like to settle in your home. Here's what you need to know about these insects.

A few years back, Ryan Herbison, then a graduate student in parasitology at the University of Otago, painstakingly collected about 1,300 earwigs and more than 2,500 sandhoppers from gardens and a ...

When it dries, it’s effective insect control for many, she says, but not adult squash bugs. I’m about to try water spraying DE now. Usually at this time of year I’m battling squash bugs.