This is a public-interest archive. Personal data is pseudonymized and retained under GDPR Article 89.

Re: Are earwigs bad?

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Earwigs are considered beneficial insects in Europe whence they cometh.

Here they make holes in blossoms and can be a nuisance; much depends on the
weather and vagaries of the particular season.

Dahlias are especially a haven for earwigs...

Lee Valley has some cute little earwig traps with bait recipes for a few
bucks...or you could roll up some newpapers, crumple some under clay pots,
or use bamboo segments to attract and trap them....then run them thru yer
yard sale special bug blender, and add the protein rich chitin containing
product to your compost pile, turning yer earwigs from a nuisance into a
nutrient....

Frank---noting that those of you with a Bass-O-Matic (old Saturday Night
Live skit)....here's the place to use it....hehehehe...:-)

-----Original Message-----

From: Lisa Routhier <broccolisa@hotmail.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 1:34 PM
Subject: Are earwigs bad?


>Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html
>
>Are earwigs bad? I found a hord of them by the zucchini plant.  I heard
they
>might be carnivorous and therefore beneficial?
>
>Thanks!
>
>--Lisa in Ottawa
>
>
>______________________________________________________
>Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
>
>
>______________________________________________________________________
>To unsubscribe, write to sqft-unsubscribe@listbot.com
>Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/
>


______________________________________________________________________
To unsubscribe, write to sqft-unsubscribe@listbot.com
Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index