Earwigs and silverfish can both turn up in dark, damp parts of a home and disappear quickly when disturbed. Their bodies, however, are quite different. An earwig has two obvious […]

Earwigs and scorpions both have prominent pincers, which explains why a quick glimpse can create confusion. The easiest distinction is where those pincers sit. An earwig has six legs and […]

Yes, earwigs are nocturnal. They spend much of the day hidden in dark, tight, protected places and become active after dark. Night is when they commonly leave those shelters to […]

Earwig behavior around light seems contradictory at first. During the day, these insects squeeze into dark, protected hiding places. Yet after sunset, you may find them around a brightly illuminated […]

Earwigs do not lay eggs in human ears. Female earwigs lay their eggs in protected nests, typically in soil. They remain with the eggs, guarding and tending them until they […]

Planting something fragrant beside a vegetable bed sounds like an ideal way to deal with earwigs. Put in lavender, mint, basil or another strongly scented plant, and the earwigs supposedly […]

The best earwig killer depends heavily on where the earwigs are causing trouble. A product that makes sense along an indoor baseboard is not automatically the product we would spray […]

Bleach is one of those household products that gets recruited for jobs it was never bought to do. An earwig appears on a bathroom floor, the bleach is already under […]

A good DIY earwig trap does not need an elaborate homemade bait. The most reliable designs exploit one of two ordinary earwig behaviors. You can give them a dark place […]