[NatureNS] Earwigs

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> I had a problem with earwigs in onions in my garden.  They would eat a
hole in the stem and live inside.  This didn't bother the bulb, but made
the onion stems unusable for salads, stews, etc.  I haven't bothered
growing onions now in a few years.
Billy

I heard a similar thing about earwigs infesting apples. A friend of mine
> who
> works on an organic farm told me they had no problem with earwigs and
> mentioned on a side note that there were many ant hills in the orchards. I
> have heard of ants being very territorial and wondered if they would kill
> earwigs, therefore preventing the infestation of the apples. Does anyone
> have any thoughts on this?
>
> Lucas Berrigan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
> On Behalf Of Roland McCormick
> Sent: November 16, 2009 8:15 PM
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Earwigs
>
> 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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