When it is sought to take earwigs by this means, the bottom of each pot should be filled with a wisp of hay or dried grass, or a little cotton wool.
Earwigs are very destructive insects, their favourite food being the petals of roses, pinks, dahlias, and other flowers.
They may be caught by driving stakes into the ground, and placing on each an inverted flower-pot, for the earwigs will climb up and take refuge under the pot, when they may be taken out and killed.
It might have been an earwig,--a very large, motherly earwig; an earwig far gone in that way in which earwigs wish to be who love their lords.
Earwigs are the prolifickest things, and so fond of their offspring!
She remained thus for three weeks, feeding on little pieces of beef or mutton, or an occasional fly; I did not then know that earwigs are mostly vegetable feeders, but it is clear they can eat other food when needful.
In the North, earwigs and sow bugs (pill bugs) are frequently found in mulched gardens but they do not become a serious pest.
Earwigs and sow bugs, that previously only were seen eating only decaying mulch, begin to attack plants.
Earwigs avoid the light, and do most of their work in the dark.
Perhaps you did not know that earwigs have wings; and certainly one does not often see these beetles flying.
It might have been an earwig--a very large motherly earwig--an earwig far gone in that way in which earwigs wish to be who love their lords.
I need only mention spiders, in whose webs they sometimes meet with their end, and earwigs and ants, which creep into the hive and steal the honey[276].
Earwigs are nocturnal in their habits, and during the day take shelter among fallen leaves, under stones, sacking, or boards, etc.
At that time the insects and the injury they do are not very noticeable, but as the earwigs grow in size they become conspicuous and extend their depredations to the foliage of plants and to fruit.
In the spring these eggs hatch, and the small whitish youngearwigs (Fig.
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects.
Even when the head is good and handsome, if not carefully examined previous to being cooked, it is often rendered disgusting by earwigs that have crept into it, or the green caterpillar of Pontia Rapae.
During the winter earwigs lie dormant; but in the early months of the year females with their eggs may be found in the soil, frequently in deserted earthworm burrows.
And the earwigs will get out of your way--" "But about the ratth?
They dragged the dead rat through the hedge and into a position commanded by the windows of the house, and incidentally came upon a cluster of giant earwigs in the ditch.
The ones as big as earwigs got in the soap, and they got in the butter.
Earwigs in our country often get out of the way when they think you are going to walk on them.
I think earwigs are such sweet little animals, don't you, Judy?
This has been denied by many authors, but we have personally known instances of earwigs entering the ears of persons lying asleep in fields in the summer time.
Second to the earwigs in importance and in numbers were the white ants, whose powers of destructiveness were simply awful.
The earwigs seemed to me neither very speedy nor very intelligent, and all except one were apt to stop in mid-course and engage in personal encounters with each other.
It was dull of me not to have realized at once that these were "his" earwigs and not real ones.
Distinct vestiges of the maxillulae exist also in the earwigs and booklice, according to G.
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