I hate them.

UGH! me too... we call em pincher bugs... I dont see them here in nebraska, but we had them all over when we lived in california

This is my first summer in the new house and they are getting in the basement (which is fully finished). I'm losing my mind killing them.

This local dude invented an ingenius trap so I picked up one of those. Also going to spray some earwig killer onto every baseboard/crown molding down here.

I know they are totally harmless but they are repulsive! Ugh!

I hope you can get them under control... They may be harmless but they are still creepy gross bugs!!

I just read this ~ if it's any help ...

Management

• Manage your earwig problem several ways. Keep them out of your house by spraying water mixed with essential oils such as citronella oil, cinnamon oil, clove oil or lavender oil around places they might enter the house. Or trap and kill the insects outside your house by using traps made from tuna cans, rolled-up newspaper or bamboo tube. Put a bit of tuna fish oil in the trap to attract the earwigs and place the traps near plants just before dark. In the morning, shake the earwigs out of the trap into a pail of soapy water to kill them. You can also spray your garden with an earwig insecticide.

I hope so too. I've never had a bug problem before. Only ever saw these assholes when I was camping. It's really disgusting to have them in your house.

At least it's not bed bugs or cockroaches.

But I always feel like they are crawling on me (which they are not)...but it's freaking me out.

I am soooo not watching that right before bed!

Machaela said:

I just read this ~ if it's any help ...

Management

• Manage your earwig problem several ways. Keep them out of your house by spraying water mixed with essential oils such as citronella oil, cinnamon oil, clove oil or lavender oil around places they might enter the house. Or trap and kill the insects outside your house by using traps made from tuna cans, rolled-up newspaper or bamboo tube. Put a bit of tuna fish oil in the trap to attract the earwigs and place the traps near plants just before dark. In the morning, shake the earwigs out of the trap into a pail of soapy water to kill them. You can also spray your garden with an earwig insecticide.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to PEI tomorrow but on Tuesday, I'm stripping the rooms, and making this space their worst nightmare.

They can live outside...just stay out of my house!

Apparently they are so stupid, they don't know how to back up...so they go into these traps and get stuck.

Disgusting and dumb.

tinaz said:

I am soooo not watching that right before bed!

JustErin said:

Machaela said:

I just read this ~ if it's any help ...

Management

• Manage your earwig problem several ways. Keep them out of your house by spraying water mixed with essential oils such as citronella oil, cinnamon oil, clove oil or lavender oil around places they might enter the house. Or trap and kill the insects outside your house by using traps made from tuna cans, rolled-up newspaper or bamboo tube. Put a bit of tuna fish oil in the trap to attract the earwigs and place the traps near plants just before dark. In the morning, shake the earwigs out of the trap into a pail of soapy water to kill them. You can also spray your garden with an earwig insecticide.

Thanks for the info. I'm going to PEI tomorrow but on Tuesday, I'm stripping the rooms, and making this space their worst nightmare.

They can live outside...just stay out of my house!

Apparently they are so stupid, they don't know how to back up...so they go into these traps and get stuck.

Disgusting and dumb.

You're welcome

THAT is exactly how I feel about all insects ~ stay OUT you're fine, come IN and you're DEAD !

Best wishes with it all !

Thats what sucks about basements... doesnt matter how new the house is they still get in We bought a brand new house back in kansas, and bugs kept getting in somehow!!

The WORST!

Nice pet u have there Armpit!

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Its strange U come up with this Erin as I live "out in the sticks" as we inbreds say in east IngyLand and these moronic, gap-squeezing, pincer-arsed little shits are EVERYWHERE in our house!!!!!!!!

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Here's a way of getting rid of them!

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Ive found them in an UNOPENED loaf of bread, the rim of an airtight sugar jar, cereal packets, my shoes, on the door of the fridge, in the sink, 2 IN A PINK OF MILK , in the shower, on the floor of every bloody room....

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It won't be long before I wake up 1 morning and 1 crawls out of my willy, where upon I'll probably have a haeart attack and die

Machaela said:

JustErin said:

Thanks for the info. I'm going to PEI tomorrow but on Tuesday, I'm stripping the rooms, and making this space their worst nightmare.

They can live outside...just stay out of my house!

Apparently they are so stupid, they don't know how to back up...so they go into these traps and get stuck.

Disgusting and dumb.

You're welcome

THAT is exactly how I feel about all insects ~ stay OUT you're fine, come IN and you're DEAD !

Best wishes with it all !

Thats how I feel about some family members..

I was apathetic towards earwigs before this thread but suddenly I find myself rather fond of them.

I dont like the name "earwigs" makes me think of them going in my ears!!

SexLovely said:

Nice pet u have there Armpit!

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Its strange U come up with this Erin as I live "out in the sticks" as we inbreds say in east IngyLand and these moronic, gap-squeezing, pincer-arsed little shits are EVERYWHERE in our house!!!!!!!!

.

Here's a way of getting rid of them!

.

Ive found them in an UNOPENED loaf of bread, the rim of an airtight sugar jar, cereal packets, my shoes, on the door of the fridge, in the sink, 2 IN A PINK OF MILK , in the shower, on the floor of every bloody room....

.

It won't be long before I wake up 1 morning and 1 crawls out of my willy, where upon I'll probably have a haeart attack and die

It's not mine; if I saw one in person I'd faint.

tinaz said:

Machaela said:

You're welcome

THAT is exactly how I feel about all insects ~ stay OUT you're fine, come IN and you're DEAD !

Best wishes with it all !

Thats how I feel about some family members..

I've already killed all those off !

There are British Earwigs?

Now I'm picturing them with little monocles and little white gloves.

"Fancy a late night stroll along SexLovely's shower floor, my love?"

"Why yes, that sounds devine".

Machaela said:

tinaz said:

Thats how I feel about some family members..

I've already killed all those off !

tinaz said:

I dont like the name "earwigs" makes me think of them going in my ears!!

That's the exact myth they were nick named after

JustErin said:

There are British Earwigs?

Now I'm picturing them with little monocles and little white gloves.

"Fancy a late night stroll along SexLovely's shower floor, my love?"

"Why yes, that sounds devine".

Machaela said:

tinaz said:

I dont like the name "earwigs" makes me think of them going in my ears!!

That's the exact myth they were nick named after

OHH GODDDD NOOOOOO!

Machaela said:

JustErin said:

There are British Earwigs?

Now I'm picturing them with little monocles and little white gloves.

"Fancy a late night stroll along SexLovely's shower floor, my love?"

"Why yes, that sounds devine".

I forgot to add, "Dahhling"

JustErin said:

There are British Earwigs?

Now I'm picturing them with little monocles and little white gloves.

"Fancy a late night stroll along SexLovely's shower floor, my love?"

"Why yes, that sounds devine".

I had these nightmare bugs upstairs and down about 4 years ago.

The next summer they were gone...I think it has something to do with the weather.

It was very hot and dry the summer they moved in.

When it's hot and humid they basically stay outside for the most part.

I see them outside this summer, but they haven't come inside.

JustErin said:

Machaela said:

I forgot to add, "Dahhling"

tinaz said:

Machaela said:

That's the exact myth they were nick named after

OHH GODDDD NOOOOOO!

Earwigs received their name from an European superstition that claims these insects crawl into the ears of people sleeping and burrow into their brains. While this superstition is false, the name stuck. Earwigs make a positive impact on the environment by preying on plant lice, a highly destructive pest. But they are better known for damaging vegetable gardens, flowerbeds and soft fruit.

*shudder*

Seriously, I couldn't sleep last night. I killed 15 of them before I got into bed....oh and speaking of bed...one of these fuckers was actually in it when I pulled the sheets back.

The whole night I imagined them crawling over me...at one point I even woke up thinking one was by my head but it was only a dream.

A nightmare, I mean.