[NatureNS] Earwigs

From: "Roland McCormick" <roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Hello Angus -
       No complaints from me - both earwigs and cockroaches are on my killl 
list.
       We don't have a lasge number of earwigs in this part of Barrington at 
the moment, but I did get quite a few this year in my peaches. They make a 
hole near the stem, and go in and live and eat on the inside near the center 
of the peach.

Roland.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Angus MacLean" <angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:12 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] Earwigs


> Re recent discussion on possibly dwindling populations of earwigs, I
> would personally be pleased to see the day when they are on the
> endangered list. However, l liken earwigs to cockroaches in that they
> will be here long after humans are gone from this earth.
>
> In any case we had an interesting case of an earwig which was
> adaptable to another environment. We have a backyard pond in which
> are a number of goldish. We remove them from the pond for the winter.
> A few days ago my wife noted something on one of them when we took
> them out. It was an earwig !!) latched on to the goldfish.
>
> We have to partially drain the pond in order to net them so only
> about 3-4 ins of water is left. Although it is known that earwigs
> like wet conditions (try leaving a wet mop out overnight), there is
> no indication they can live in water. There must be an explanation 
> but...??
>
> Incidentally there is one earwig, the St. Helena Earwig, on the
> endangered list. It is the largest earwig in the world and recovery
> plans are already underway. How scarce resources and monies are
> wasted! (I expect a backlash re the latter statement).
>
> Angus
>


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