Earwigs

[Carson Dyle]

Man, I hate these things with a passion. And I find them all through my house. Not by the hundreds, but every day I encounter a few of them. Mostly in the kitchen and in my office. I just had one fall off the underside of my desk into my lap. The other day I found one in a bag of tortillas. They love moisture and they especially love to come out in the dark.

The stupid little things really creep me out, and they're starting to drive me crazy. How do you get rid of them?

 

[Drako]

 

[Jodell88]

Flamethrower or nuke

 

[Drako]

We have those out here and they love my Tomato plants. Little bastards are annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDM3xWK5Lk

 

[Carson Dyle]

Yeah I recently noticed a few of the new leaves on my houseplants look like they've been chewed on. I suspect the earwigs. The only other bugs I ever see in my house are small spiders, and I leave most of them alone.

 

[Chiropteran]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mvmHwCxw5A

 

[Linux23]

I loathe bugs

 

[Carson Dyle]

We have those out here and they love my Tomato plants. Little bastards are annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDM3xWK5Lk

The traps are interesting. I could see how burying them so that their lip is at ground level would work well in a garden. I have a feeling, though, that the little raised center pad is for some kind of bait. You wouldn't want to submerge that part with oil unless you're not going to add bait.

Maybe I could do something similar with a very shallow tray in the house. Maybe even some flat bags (like my tortilla bags, your little bastards) with some oil and bait in them.

 

[jumpncrash]

haha, I fucking hate earwigs, and that buried oil trap made me laugh a little, fuck you you little backwards fuckers

 

[jman19]

 

[Red Squirrel]

I see a lot of those things too. I moved a tap and like 30 of them were skurrying away, thankfully, outside. I get some inside too, they seem to be really good at forcing themselves through door seals. I sometimes open the door and there will be a couple lodged between the door and frame as they slowly push their way through. Even my cat won't touch those things. One time one fell on my cat while she was sleeping, it was the most hilarious reaction ever, my cat jumped out and seemed all grossed out by it, and just stared at me, and then at her bed, and would not go back until I remove it.

As a side note, I was experimenting with macro photography at some point and this is how they look like up close:




That face looks kind of cute.

 

[madoka]

What's amazing to me is that earwigs can fly, yet they rarely use that ability.

How would evolution favor flight yet they don't use it? It's like being able to turn invisible but not ever using it.

 

[Captante]

Creepy looking but harmless to humans.

 

[John Connor]

What's amazing to me is that earwigs can fly, yet they rarely use that ability.

How would evolution favor flight yet they don't use it? It's like being able to turn invisible but not ever using it.

That's nuts! I never knew that.

 

[John Connor]

I have them here, but they are all outside. I don't recall seeing one inside. What I have in the house are spiders.

I can't stand the damn earwigs. I sit on the patio and my drink is on the table and the damn things sometimes get into my drink and into my cigs. Now I really have to check because once I had an earwig get on the top of a container I was drinking from. Could have been tea. I put the cap on and little did I know I pulverized an earwig within the threads of the cap.

 

[Raizinman]

What's amazing to me is that earwigs can fly, yet they rarely use that ability.

How would evolution favor flight yet they don't use it? It's like being able to turn invisible but not ever using it.

Sort of how most adults can run, but never use that ability.

 

[zinfamous]

What's amazing to me is that earwigs can fly, yet they rarely use that ability.

How would evolution favor flight yet they don't use it? It's like being able to turn invisible but not ever using it.

I don't know much about earwigs, but most bugs in that category are rather poor flyers--some ants can fly but usually only queens and it only happens when they need to move a colony and start fresh.

I imagine that earwigs, with their morphology, are better protected crawling on the ground and hiding under things and are clumsy and exposed to air-borne predators when trying to fly, much like roaches, which also suck at flying.

 

[KeithTalent]

Used to freak me out as a kid; I blame The Dead Milkmen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5lwaZG1JkU

KT

 

[Scarpozzi]

What's amazing to me is that earwigs can fly, yet they rarely use that ability.

How would evolution favor flight yet they don't use it? It's like being able to turn invisible but not ever using it.

I just read up on them because I don't see them much around here. We have a lot of silverfish...which look similar to earwigs in body-style....I knew they were part of the moth family- Earwigs, not so much.

The article I read stated that not all earwigs have wings...so it may be a trait for only certain varieties. I'm sure, in the animal kingdom, flying insects are more visible to birds....so for insects out in the daylight hours, maybe making the decision not to fly is a good thing.

 

[evident]

plenty of nastier insects out there.

 

[clamum]

Dude those sons of fucks have invaded my apartment lately. I've found them in my bedroom (most often), living room, one crawling across my pillow (shiver), in the bathroom, one clinging to the inside of the toilet bowl. My cat used to paw and play with them and then eat them after a while, LOL, but he's pussed out and now just kinda stares at them.

I forgot to look at bug killer shit while I was at the store but I'm weary of using anything cause of kitty.

 

[WelshBloke]

plenty of nastier insects out there.

 

[John Connor]

If you have earwigs in your house it very well could be the NSA's new "bugging" program. :twisted:

HAHAHAHA J/K But I did touch on a real life tech...

 

[lxskllr]

Creepy looking but harmless to humans.

They'll pinch hard with their ass grippers. I suppose you'd have to try getting pinched, but pets are definitely fair game for them.

I had a bunch of them take up residence under the float bag in my canoe one year. They made a ~200 mile journey on top of my truck, and into the water. I didn't see them til I got water in the boat, and I had a couple hundred floating around me D^:

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Had an apartment with some earwigs and silverfish around.

Got a cat. Never saw another one.