This is a terrible year for gardeners because of a proliferation of earwigs. They’ve turned potato leaves to lace in my gardens, and several readers have complained about them. Friend Pat Roloff, in ...

Here’s what to about these infrequent indoor pests. Getty Images It’s unsettling when an earwig scuttles across your floor with its fearsome-looking pinchers. But spotting one doesn’t mean you ...

Earwigs can be a pest - and not just because of that scary old wives' tale that they will crawl into your ear and lay eggs (they won't!). However, earwigs also unfortunately eat ornamental and ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Have you noticed more earwigs in and around your home or ...

With springtime rains upon us in Oklahoma, your backyard might be becoming the perfect environment for the dreaded earwig. Here's what to know if you've seen these bugs in your yard, or if they've ...

Q: I have had a ton of earwigs in my garden this year. They eat holes in my flowers and they crawled inside a napa cabbage and chewed it all up. I’m finding drowned earwigs in my hummingbird feeder. A ...

Earwigs like our lettuce. My wife has found many of them when she’s plucked the plants from our garden and washed off the leaves in the sink. She does not like insects, especially in the house. There ...

British author, naturalist and biologist Dave Goulson states that earwigs do not “have great press” and that it is very unlikely that an Earwig Preservation Trust will be formed for them. Indeed, ...

Appearance: Flat, elongated body with slender antennae and two prominent pincers at the tip of abdomen. The males' pincers are large and curved, whereas the females' are straight. Adult earwigs are ...