A cup of beer buried in a garden bed is a familiar homemade pest trap. The problem is that its reputation comes largely from trapping slugs and snails, not earwigs. […]

An earwig spends much of the day doing something that makes perfect sense for an insect with plenty of enemies: hiding. Beneath mulch, boards, leaves and other cover, it is […]

Earwigs have a strange way of seeming to arrive all at once. You can go through spring barely noticing them, then suddenly find them beneath pots, crawling through flowers, hiding […]

Rubbing alcohol creates an easy trap in pest control. A household liquid can kill an insect when sprayed directly on it, so it starts to look like a treatment for […]

The easiest way to tell a male earwig from a female is to look at the pincers at the rear of the abdomen. In adult European earwigs, males have thicker, […]

Dish soap sounds like another internet home remedy until you look at how soapy water is actually used in earwig control. Gardeners are routinely told to shake trapped earwigs into […]

Vinegar has enough legitimate pest-control associations to make the earwig claim sound believable. Acetic acid appears in registered pesticide products, and ordinary vinegar is acidic enough to affect some living […]

Seeing earwigs disappear into the folds of a corn plant looks worse than it necessarily is. Their presence alone does not tell you whether the crop is in trouble. The […]

Search for what smell earwigs hate and you will quickly run into the same familiar suggestions: peppermint, lavender, eucalyptus, cinnamon, citrus, vinegar and coffee. They sound reasonable because each has […]

Finding an earwig indoors often sends people looking for something to spray inside. Prevention works in almost the opposite direction. By the time an earwig is walking across your bathroom […]