Get Rid of Earwigs With These 2 Traps!
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Date: 2022-07-18
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Lindy
I am in a new garden and trying to establish planters and beds. Picked up a planter to deadhead it and remove eaten leaves and earwigs just swarmed out, to my surprise. I had though the flowers were being eaten by birds. I had no idea that earwigs could do this kind of damage so after tidying up I put in some seedlings and a nasturtium to fill in the gaps for late summer. Now understanding that they are unlikely to survive! I think they came in with the planter tbh, as I have not seen this destruction elsewhere. And do not want it to spread. Do they eat roots too. An adjacent Rosemary is doing a lot less well than an identically sourced one elsewhere in the garden.
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I am in a new garden and trying to establish planters and beds. Picked up a planter to deadhead it and remove eaten leaves and earwigs just swarmed out, to my surprise. I had though the flowers were being eaten by birds. I had no idea that earwigs could do this kind of damage so after tidying up I put in some seedlings and a nasturtium to fill in the gaps for late summer. Now understanding that they are unlikely to survive! I think they came in with the planter tbh, as I have not seen this destruction elsewhere. And do not want it to spread. Do they eat roots too. An adjacent Rosemary is doing a lot less well than an identically sourced one elsewhere in the garden.
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BarbedStar
Had a retail nursery for 25 years. Customers always told of their earwig battles. I found a regular sheet of newspaper folded at its crease, rolled into a cone shape, twist the small end tight. Lightly mist the cone (not so much to collapse it totally) and tuck them here and there under foliage in the evening. Make up a bucket with soapy water to have ready. Usually in the morning the little critters will have take up house in the newspaper. You can leave them for a few days even. Go around in the daylight, collect the cones and dump into the soapy bucket. Fold over the big end to prevent them from bailing out on you. Earwigs and ticks. ugh!
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Had a retail nursery for 25 years. Customers always told of their earwig battles. I found a regular sheet of newspaper folded at its crease, rolled into a cone shape, twist the small end tight. Lightly mist the cone (not so much to collapse it totally) and tuck them here and there under foliage in the evening. Make up a bucket with soapy water to have ready. Usually in the morning the little critters will have take up house in the newspaper. You can leave them for a few days even. Go around in the daylight, collect the cones and dump into the soapy bucket. Fold over the big end to prevent them from bailing out on you. Earwigs and ticks. ugh!
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Em
Used tuna or cat food cans also work well, with canola oil mixed with cheap soy sauce. I don't even bury them, the earwigs crawl up the side. However, I have a dog now who is so food-crazy that she literally ripped apart the metal garden fence to eat the contents of all of my earwig traps (yuck, so I can't use this method anymore. (She also digs up any organic granular fertilizer. So now I dust the plants with diatomaceous earth in the evenings, which helps to some degree. Earwigs can be brutal and many seasons have mown down every one of my seedlings to the ground, time after time. They have even destroyed mature zucchini plants.
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Used tuna or cat food cans also work well, with canola oil mixed with cheap soy sauce. I don't even bury them, the earwigs crawl up the side. However, I have a dog now who is so food-crazy that she literally ripped apart the metal garden fence to eat the contents of all of my earwig traps (yuck, so I can't use this method anymore. (She also digs up any organic granular fertilizer. So now I dust the plants with diatomaceous earth in the evenings, which helps to some degree. Earwigs can be brutal and many seasons have mown down every one of my seedlings to the ground, time after time. They have even destroyed mature zucchini plants.
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Burt
I never knew earwigs aka pincher bugs could be so destructive through the years when I found out a day after bought some potted vine flowers that chewed all the flowers off I get thousands of them around my property I get em in the house in the strangest places pots n pans clothes I had one that got on back of my leg when I was taking shower & bit me, my mother's washing machine had a nest of them all over the electronic board that damaged her washing machine being they short circuted it. Many problem with them I kill em with what ever chemicals I have around they are pesty critters.
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I never knew earwigs aka pincher bugs could be so destructive through the years when I found out a day after bought some potted vine flowers that chewed all the flowers off I get thousands of them around my property I get em in the house in the strangest places pots n pans clothes I had one that got on back of my leg when I was taking shower & bit me, my mother's washing machine had a nest of them all over the electronic board that damaged her washing machine being they short circuted it. Many problem with them I kill em with what ever chemicals I have around they are pesty critters.
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snicklefritz669
Not a true pest? I wish I knew how to post picks in your comments. They are decimating my sunflowers, perennial plants and now moved on to my young tomatoes. so I've been going out at night spraying with dawn soap and water on everyone I see. Past 3 nights I estimate I killed 75. A tsp and half in a spray bottle kills them almost instantly. I have a small yard and think their coming from the neighbors yard because they havent mowed the yard all summer and let all weeds grow. ANY TIPS WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED.
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Not a true pest? I wish I knew how to post picks in your comments. They are decimating my sunflowers, perennial plants and now moved on to my young tomatoes. so I've been going out at night spraying with dawn soap and water on everyone I see. Past 3 nights I estimate I killed 75. A tsp and half in a spray bottle kills them almost instantly. I have a small yard and think their coming from the neighbors yard because they havent mowed the yard all summer and let all weeds grow. ANY TIPS WOULD BE MUCH APPRECIATED.
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Teri313
We had a pretty bad earwig problem that grew over five or so years. Got six chickens (free range) and they decimated them - no more earwigs! I realize not everybody can keep chickens, but they are so awesome at pest control, constantly monitoring the entire yard and foundation of our house and barn. We got the chickens for eggs and as companions for our old goose, but they do so much more. They are also awesome leaf shredders in the fall - rake up a pile of leaves and they will shred it down to the ground in no time.
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We had a pretty bad earwig problem that grew over five or so years. Got six chickens (free range) and they decimated them - no more earwigs! I realize not everybody can keep chickens, but they are so awesome at pest control, constantly monitoring the entire yard and foundation of our house and barn. We got the chickens for eggs and as companions for our old goose, but they do so much more. They are also awesome leaf shredders in the fall - rake up a pile of leaves and they will shred it down to the ground in no time.
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Canuckmom1958
We just paid $130. to have our AC Tech. come out to Repair our Unit (which he just serviced 3 weeks ago, which stopped working on THE HOTTEST DAY of the Summer (Humidex of 100F. An earwig made its way into the unit, crawled into a contact, got fried, and broke the connection from the contact. Did I mention I HATE EARWIGS! .and it's a bumper year for the little vermin. Yuck!
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We just paid $130. to have our AC Tech. come out to Repair our Unit (which he just serviced 3 weeks ago, which stopped working on THE HOTTEST DAY of the Summer (Humidex of 100F. An earwig made its way into the unit, crawled into a contact, got fried, and broke the connection from the contact. Did I mention I HATE EARWIGS! .and it's a bumper year for the little vermin. Yuck!
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Charlie
Has anyone got any ideas how I can stop them eating my dahlia petals? Im using a saline around the stems but some are getting through and Im yet to see one non eaten flower head this year. Im in the uk. Ive put oil traps out, I sweep and clear the garden every week I go round at night removing my hand. Ive tried soooo much I just want them off the petals.
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Has anyone got any ideas how I can stop them eating my dahlia petals? Im using a saline around the stems but some are getting through and Im yet to see one non eaten flower head this year. Im in the uk. Ive put oil traps out, I sweep and clear the garden every week I go round at night removing my hand. Ive tried soooo much I just want them off the petals.
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James
Dang things remind me of roaches.
maybe they have their uses, but I've got thousands of these things! I found hundreds in my bird seed feeder! And it was hanging up in a tree out on a limb. But maybe they just thought it was a good place for shade.
The birds didn't seem to like them at all and they took the seeds, but left the earwigs.
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Dang things remind me of roaches.
maybe they have their uses, but I've got thousands of these things! I found hundreds in my bird seed feeder! And it was hanging up in a tree out on a limb. But maybe they just thought it was a good place for shade.
The birds didn't seem to like them at all and they took the seeds, but left the earwigs.
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sanhestar
earwigs are great helpers to keep down infestation of other pests, especially in orchards, like the moth larve that cause worm-eaten apples. So, instead of killing them off, check with organic orchard owners if they are interested in them. They can be easily transferred in nests of wood wool.
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earwigs are great helpers to keep down infestation of other pests, especially in orchards, like the moth larve that cause worm-eaten apples. So, instead of killing them off, check with organic orchard owners if they are interested in them. They can be easily transferred in nests of wood wool.
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Pete
And Earwigs are good food for growing baby birds. Our local woodpecker fed their babies pretty much a complete diet of earwigs every 10 minutes until they fledged. So be careful with what you might consider a pest. You may end up removing an important food source for growing birds.
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And Earwigs are good food for growing baby birds. Our local woodpecker fed their babies pretty much a complete diet of earwigs every 10 minutes until they fledged. So be careful with what you might consider a pest. You may end up removing an important food source for growing birds.
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Tony
When I moved into this house the earwigs were numerous and everywhere. Eating on my flowers and just horrible. Then after a few years, they almost completely vanished. But for about three more years I would see one here and there. This spring I've not seen one.
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When I moved into this house the earwigs were numerous and everywhere. Eating on my flowers and just horrible. Then after a few years, they almost completely vanished. But for about three more years I would see one here and there. This spring I've not seen one.
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Jessica
Earwigs are literally nightmare bugs to me. I hate them so much. I haven't encountered many outside in my yard but I killed three in the same spot in my living room on three consecutive days and now I have a fear of that corner
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Earwigs are literally nightmare bugs to me. I hate them so much. I haven't encountered many outside in my yard but I killed three in the same spot in my living room on three consecutive days and now I have a fear of that corner
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pinedovestudio
I did not know they had benefits in the garden! Do they like eat vine borers? I was able to confirm their damage on my marigolds and read that they can eat at ripe tomatoes so I will set traps near tomatoes plants.
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I did not know they had benefits in the garden! Do they like eat vine borers? I was able to confirm their damage on my marigolds and read that they can eat at ripe tomatoes so I will set traps near tomatoes plants.
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Dough
I found an earwig in my cactus pot. I noticed chunks taken off and at first I assumed it was too much sun exposure until I watered it and an earwig crawled out of the soil, so I got a pair of scissors and cut it in half.
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I found an earwig in my cactus pot. I noticed chunks taken off and at first I assumed it was too much sun exposure until I watered it and an earwig crawled out of the soil, so I got a pair of scissors and cut it in half.
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