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Oh this is eerie. I literally just googled how to get rid of earwigs in my garden about an hour ago because they devoured all of my Napa cabbage and kale. 😂 Talk about perfect timing!
I'm ready. I'm sick of earwigs. Did you know they have wings and fly?
Clearly you are spying on my garden, please stop 😮
More like scorpions than cockroaches – great I feel so much better lol
Thsnk you! I love your channel. You always cover some things that other gardencasters do not. I'm in the Kansas City area. I haven't seen earwigs yet, but I'm going to clear out all the dead foliage anyway as a precautionary practice.
Diatomaceous Earth will help, I have been fighting them a few years and put this down around my plants.
Why? In Germany, we hang pots filled with straw to attract them. No idea why but I always assumed they were nice.
I have new Greenstalks and earwigs have turned them into condos.
Earwigs pinch hurts. Also, that sounds weird because Iowa where I was at anyway did they have any earwigs until about two years ago. And I remember seeing them when I visited the Teton mountains, which I think it’s colder in the winter than here.
Annually earwigs CAN fly. Their wings fold up with 10 to 18 folds. The wings are folded by a combination of 3 folding techniques. They CAN fly. Just not very well lol
Just don’t let the mother lay eggs!
Some tips: use insecticidal soap. Let wild milkweed grow, they curl up in the leaves and can easily be killed. Dig in moist areas or around pernenials, you should find large quantities like nests. Use a torch to kill large quantities quickly, they can't outrun the torch 😅 Coffee with milk left in the garden for a few days to a week will attract and drown them. I don't know why this works, but I left my coffee outside once and figured it out. It did much better than the other traps. Leave a pile of litter to attract them, fill it with diamacious earth.
Keeping foliage off the ground is number one, however I find that cucumber foliage on the ground does not attract earwigs. Why is that ?
Thanks for this informative video.
Thank you! These have taken over my yard since I broke my foot and ankle last year and haven’t been able to keep the yard clean.
They ate all my holly basil babies this year 🙁 They loved the shady wet trays my basil were in. They would hide out on the bottom side and then come out later and devour.
I am so confused about earwigs. Everything I see, hear, and read says something different. 😆 I have had a crazy amount of them this year so I have looked up so many things about them. One thing will say they're bad, they eat your plants, etc. The next thing will say sometimes they do that but they also eat aphids and other pests so they're more like frenemies. I don't even know what to believe anymore. The only thing that's been more annoying than earwigs this year is the slugs. Holy cow, they are out of control. 😧
Earwigs have been a problem. But in our garden the Pillbugs are horrible this year. They took out sever sprouting beans in June and early July. I know our rotting wood raised beds are a big contributing factor.
Mulch is great for your garden and keeps moisture in the soil which in return makes you water less.
I even have earwigs in my teapot, in the house, they are bad here this year. North panhandle WV. Thanks for posting.
I’ve also had slugs like crazy as well. They’ve been loving my barley straw mulch
Diatomaceous earth sprinkled down. Set up oil and soy sauce traps. Use neem and soap spray at night, spray directly on the little buggers. I knocked back my earwig population by a lot using these 3 methods.
HELP. My bush beans are blooming but no beans form. What could cause this?
They have been in my zuccini horrible this year!
We've had LOTS this year too (Quebec, Canada) but the ducks are enjoying them thankfully.