Borax and boric acid often get treated as interchangeable home remedies. They are related boron compounds, but they are not the same substance. That distinction becomes important when someone wants […]

Earwigs can seem to disappear once cold weather arrives, then suddenly turn up again when temperatures rise. They have not necessarily died off. Adult European earwigs can survive winter in […]

Neem oil gets recommended for so many garden pests that it is easy to start treating the name itself as an insecticide claim. The complication is that products described as […]

Diatomaceous earth looks almost too simple to be an insect killer. It is a fine mineral dust, not a conventional liquid insecticide, and an earwig can crawl across it without […]

Seeing an earwig moving in a sink, bucket or puddle can make it look surprisingly capable around water. That does not make it an aquatic insect. Earwigs are terrestrial insects […]

A dahlia can look perfect one evening and strangely ragged a few mornings later. Petals have holes, leaf edges look chewed, and the insect responsible is nowhere in sight. Earwigs […]

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 […]