BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?

Subject: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: GUEST,David Bellamy
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 09:49 AM

It appears that earwigs are now extinct. No more poking sticks down holes and collecting them in jam jars - why ?

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 09:53 AM

you must be looking in the wrong places....

Where have all the earwigs gone, long time passing
where have all the earwigs gone? Long time ago...

where Have all the earwigs gone
Gone to roses every one
When will they ever learn?

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 09:56 AM

They've all moved to Wigan, listen closely and you can ear them.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 10:28 AM

INTERESTING FACTS: Some tunnel as deeply as six feet into the ground to escape the cold. The name earwig is from a European superstition that these insects entered the ears of a sleeping person and bored into the brain.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Bill D
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 10:32 AM

"Where have all the earwigs gone ?"

you know how it goes,," ear today and gone tomorrow"

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 10:45 AM

In the summertime,they are under my tansy plants. Millions of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 10:46 AM

earwigo, erawigo, earwigo.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Greg F.
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 10:54 AM

They've all emigrated to the Northeast U.S.- I'm infested with 'em in July & August.

I'd be happy to return 'em... just give me a shipping address. Is C.O.D. ok?

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Sttaw Legend
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 11:02 AM

COD is ok, and haddock.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Splott Man
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 11:02 AM

They're having a party in my cellar

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Metchosin
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 11:38 AM

Its warmer than most places in Canada here and the snowdrops haven't begun to bloom yet, but I found one drowned in the dogs water dish a couple of days ago, so they are still around in the PNW.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 11:50 AM

You can color 'em and get them to pinch onto your earlobes for the latest in earring fashions.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: jimmyt
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 12:15 PM

As we men get older, it is a fact that many become bald and either need to deal with baldness by ignoring it or perhaps a wig. However, the hair growing on our ears increases, thus I really see a very small market for earwigs.........but that's just me I do have a line of eyebrow toupee's that will soon hit the market

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 12:20 PM

Never use 'em myself. My head's bald, so why should my ears be any better off?   

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Don Firth
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 12:22 PM

Jeez, jimmyt! Beat me by that --><-- much!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 01:25 PM

I'm going to market merkins to 'mericans. Not quite earwigs, but still useful. That'll be me: 'merican merkin marketer Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Grab
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 01:33 PM

Don't know, but come the Spring they'll all be in our buddleia shoots.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 02:46 PM

Livin in my back garden, just waiting for the flowers and the dogs bowl and the cats underbelly and the laundry and the bins and the garden gnomes and of course, we pressed, they just crawl in the doors and windows..extinct you say ?

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 06:20 PM

They all wigged off...

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Mudlark
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 02:41 AM

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....

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 06:20 AM

Blackpool

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 08:54 PM

'ere, 'ere...

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Janie
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 11:57 AM

They all moved to Hillsborough, North Carolina, where they will soon be chewing holes in the first of my daffodils (they don't know daffodils are not bothered by any pests.)

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Where have all the earwigs gone ?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Jan 04 - 12:03 PM

We see earwigs occasionally, but the insect we find most annoying because of the sheer numbers of them are pill bugs. Potato bugs. Roly polies. Whatever you want to call them, we got lots.