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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The children learned the song at Mrs Kiddy’s Barnardiston pre-prep school in Suffolk and it became a party piece. I’m very fond of earwigs, they have such shiny backs, As if the day is raining and ...