earwigs
- To: Perennials list
- Subject: earwigs
- From: P*
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:18:30 -0500
Oh, you newbies to earwigs are in for the ride of your life . . . . I
find them to be the ugliest, why did God make them, bugs . .second only
to centipedes!
They will eat anything - I've never known anything to be immune. They
are everywhere - inside and out. I've found them lurking under coffee
cups, inside duck calls (ask my son about not checking his duck call
first and how they taste), in between loops of hose, in the mailbox,
the well (one has to have a critter-proof well cap in our area now), the
whatever - you get the picture. Diazanon may keep them away, but you
don't want it on food crops.
I've known people to roll up newspapers and lay them in the garden to
give them a place to hide, and then gathering the rolls and burning them
in the morning. I'd guess that gets about a tenth of the population.
They are doing a slow walk across America - from East to west. 40 years
ago, one never saw an earwig in Wisconsin - now they are everywhere
here.
My best wishes to you on your battle . . . . .
--
Pat Mitchell
pattm@execpc.com
Zone 5 SE Wisconsin.
If earwigs ate mosquitos they wouldn't be so bad . . . . .
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