Earwigs are beneficial insects that primarily consume dead plants and other insects, contributing to garden cleanliness. While earwigs can cause minor plant damage, their benefits generally outweigh ...

You try your best to make your home hospitable for guests—but not the insect kind. Earwigs will seek shelter in your home—often in the bathroom, basement or kitchen, as these places offer ideal ...

Question: Something is eating all of my plant's leaves. This includes my dahlias, zinnias and basil. What can I do? Answer: During the daytime, if you don't see any insects on the damaged leaves, you ...

Earwigs have been feeding on flowers and foliage this growing season. They love the sweet, succulent flower petals and have no problem burying themselves into a bud that is almost ready to open.

Here’s what to about these infrequent indoor pests. Getty Images It’s unsettling when an earwig scuttles across your floor with its fearsome-looking pinchers. But spotting one doesn’t mean you ...

An earwig crawls across a leaf. Photo courtesy Getty Images Do you have a gardening question? The UC Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County can help. Our volunteers are part of the University of ...

British author, naturalist and biologist Dave Goulson states that earwigs do not “have great press” and that it is very unlikely that an Earwig Preservation Trust will be formed for them. Indeed, ...

Q: I have had a ton of earwigs in my garden this year. They eat holes in my flowers and they crawled inside a napa cabbage and chewed it all up. I’m finding drowned earwigs in my hummingbird feeder. A ...

When you have gardening questions, turn to Ask an Expert, an online question-and-answer tool from Oregon State University’s Extension Service. OSU Extension faculty and Master Gardeners reply to ...

I have gone several years without seeing any earwigs. Then suddenly in the last two weeks they seem to be popping up everywhere! Well not literally everywhere, but in places I frequent such as flower ...

When I first planned to write this article on snail-proof plants, I thought researching it would be as simple. as Googling "plants snails and earwigs won't eat." But when I did that, I got zero hits.