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 […]

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, […]