The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #66391 Message #1102298
Posted By: Mudlark
27-Jan-04 - 02:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
They are traipsing thru my house, by summer a river of dark moving shapes as night comes on. They crawl into my bed, they fill up the tub, they fall out of books. Outside there are hundreds on the windows aftr dark, yet more are mowing down all the garden veg. shoots as they appear above ground, ruining the centers of lettuce, cabbage and other plants, gnawing into carrots. Oh....I hate earwigs! Anybody have any good non-pesticide ways of getting rid of them. Hand-picking, even night collections in tuna cans, etc. are only reasonable when numbers in the hundreds, not thousands. Sprinkling liberal amounts of diatomaceous earth about works pretty well, but only until the next spring rain....