The soy sauce and oil earwig trap has become one of those garden remedies that sounds almost too homemade to be taken seriously. A small container goes into the soil, […]

Lift a damp board and finding ten earwigs underneath it can look a lot like discovering a colony. That description is misleading, though. The insects may have deliberately gathered together, […]

Yes. Female earwigs take care of their eggs and newly hatched young, an unusually involved form of parental care for an insect. A mother guards her underground nest, tends the […]

Squashing an earwig can produce an unpleasant smell that seems to appear out of nowhere. It is easy to assume that the odor comes from the insect simply being crushed, […]

An earwig does not enter the garden looking for one particular meal. It may chew a flower petal, scavenge decaying vegetation and prey on a small insect during the same […]

Finding earwigs beneath a flowerpot does not automatically mean something in the garden needs saving. The same insect that chews a hole through a dahlia petal can spend another night […]

Earwigs are much stranger than the pincers on their rear suggest. They can have wings yet rarely fly, mothers actively care for their eggs and young, and some species release […]

Baby earwigs, called nymphs, look like smaller and usually lighter versions of adult earwigs. They have elongated bodies, six legs, long antennae, and a pair of cerci at the rear. […]

A yard can look perfectly tidy and still provide exactly what earwigs need. The attraction is often happening at ground level, where damp soil meets mulch, fallen leaves, flowerpots, dense […]

Earwig eggs are tiny, elliptical, and pearly white when freshly laid. European earwig eggs are about 1 millimeter long, roughly pinhead-sized, and females lay them together inside protected soil nests. […]