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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

According to the pest control company Orkin, there are more than 1,500 species of earwigs, with about 20 existing in the U.S. They typically range in size from one-fourth of an inch to two inches ...

Meanwhile, insect experts note most bugs in Illinois are supposed to be here. And as long as they’re not posing a specific threat to someone, they should be left alone to do their thing.

News; Pacific NW; Bugging the Northwest: Don’t wig out over earwigs – a pest, an ally and a good mom Wed., Aug. 24, 2022 This male European earwig, common in Washington state, was found in ...

CHUCK MARTIN: With everything going on today, the number one thing it seems people want to talk about is these bugs called earwigs. What everyone is talking about: Earwigs ...

Earwigs aren't the only bugs that are seeing a resurgence amid Wisconsin's rainy summer. Liesch said he's also heard reports of more slugs and roly polys, or pill bugs, crawling around the state ...

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 ...