Never seen so many in all my years must be because of the amount of rain we have been getting it’s never ending 2X-3X a week we get rain another 1.5 yesterday morning. Very few crickets less spiders this year but the earwigs are booming I’m finding them everywhere now. Everything I move in the shop one comes crawling out every board or brick has them living under it.


In the past it was barn spiders when the lake bugs (midges) hatched under the right conditions. Chickens wiped out the cricket population now these greasy little critters show up.

yup earwigs love the moist

some people have success with ear wig traps , a pan burried to the edge with water and some vegetable oil in it cover that with cardboard and they go to hide under and go in the pan and can't get out.

other ways might not be too good to have around the chickens

Seeing them everywhere at my camp in north central Pa.

I had to look them up to see what the heck they were. I might have seen them in my life time but I doubt it. Never lived in an area where we had to much moisture for long periods.

They're a weird bug, most years theres always some and then, BAM, millions!

They like moisture.

My dad recalled the first earwig they ever seen in St Helens, Oregon right around WW1 They had it in a jar and paraded it all around to show folks. But they're everywhere now. It's not a native species.

Allot of them here too this year
Just pick up anything outside and there will be hundreds of em . They get in everything .

It does seem to be a great year to be an earwig. I have noticed a lot more male than female earwigs though.

they moved in here about 10 years ago and now they are everywhere

Can't remember ever seeing one around here

Started seeing them last year now they are everywhere.

Crazy looking bug!
Can't say I've ever seen one.

For a trap use equal parts soy sauce and olive oil. Put in a shallow tray or bowl at soil level and place where you see them.

Always have lots of them even when dry. Can't remember not seeing them around here.

Slimy little buggers like a wood roach they look like something right out of a sci-fi flick.

That sounds like a way Asian people would eat earwigs.

Keith

Oh, y’all talking about pincher bugs! Ain’t seen them in years. Used to see them everywhere. Had to Google what y’all was talking about, lol.

Right now someone thinking of making a lure out of them and some are searching for recipes. LOL

the females guard the egg chambers that is why you don't see them

just modify a Minnesota mosquito trap to catch them, but there may be" export out of state rules" those Minn. guys have imposed