earwigs

x in the city

these little bastards seem to be everywhere lately


anyone else have earwig issues at home?

lalee17

No earwigs for me, but ANTS, ARE EVERYWHERE.

starbelgrade

Yep - my missus is always earwiggin'.

Mac Masters

Earwigs have never really bothered me, it's swarms of spiders that CREEP me out! You know.....

Bajingo

Haven't seen an earwig in years..bloody silverfish though..they're disgusting!

x PyRo

Yeah, My ear is itchy as fuck and my wig keeps falling off because I have to scratch my head. :mad:

recylingbin

Mac Masters wrote: »

[IMG]file:///C:/Users/Jim/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot.png[/IMG][IMG]file:///C:/Users/Jim/AppData/Local/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.png[/IMG]Earwigs have never really bothered me, it's swarms of spiders that CREEP me out! You know.....

Hi Jim.

Yakult

Woodlice are what Im seeing these day. ugly bastards.

Flojo

No earwigs thank fcuk! Uuugh such disgusting little creatures *shudders*
Flies are pissing me off though

rainbowdrop

Seem's to be a real shortage of ladybirds this year as well, I've yet to see ONE even.........

mikom

x in the city wrote: »

these little bastards seem to be everywhere lately


anyone else have earwig issues at home?

Donie Cassidy.

SoulTrader

x in the city wrote: »

these little bastards seem to be everywhere lately


anyone else have earwig issues at home?

It's that time of year I suppose... Earwig go again...

Orla K

They can fly too!

karlog

Orla K wrote: »

They can fly too!

F*ck me their evolving into earmigs(a mig being a type of aircraft).

Oh yeh, my witty humour is top notch:cool:

Ruu_Old

Mac Masters wrote: »

Earwigs have never really bothered me, it's swarms of spiders that CREEP me out! You know.....

thats ok, they banned a few of his other accounts as far as I know. i agree though, creepy. :cool:

artanevilla

The day I found out earwigs could fly was the worst day of my life.

Larianne

artanevilla wrote: »

The day I found out earwigs could fly was the worst day of my life.

:eek:

W.Shakes-Beer

Haven't seen earwigs in years.

One thing I have noticed is a mega shortage of wasps this year, im not complaining.

Zombienosh

I never knew they could fly.........?!!

I'm going home to lock myself in the basement, until they catch those earwigs.

W.Shakes-Beer

wait, those things can fly!? Just when you think were safe

Though I might disgust everyone with this picture while im around so:

Kiera

I havent seen any this yet, in fact i havent seen many bugs at all this summer.

Sinfonia

Anyone else getting itchy reading this thread?

stupidusername

Sinfonia wrote: »

Anyone else getting itchy reading this thread?

YES I have an extreme phobia of earwigs.eugh even the name makes me shiver.....

Stop talking about them. They can't fly. THEY CAN'T!!!! Please say they can't!?

Abrasax

I remember being on holiday in Wexford onetime, near Curraghcloe Beach, staying with the family in a self-catering cottage, and I went outside for a sneaky cigarette at the side of the house the first evening we were there, and I'm leaning against the wall, enjoying me puff, admiring the landscape before me, when first one earwig catches my eye and I bat him away, then a second and third until I turn around and there on the wall, just right behind my head, were hundreds of the little fuckers crawling about. There was a little hole there where they must have had a nest.

Talk about getting a shock.

But I could deal with that, there were outside, we were inside. 'They're no bother out there', I thought until I went to pour a bowl of cornflakes the next morning and a handful of 'em come scattering out of the bowl... :eek:

Wazdakka

Haven't noticed that many Earwigs really,
Looooaddsss of bloody moths though,
Little bastids are eating my suits :mad:

Somewhat OT Link...

Kiera

Abrasax wrote: »

I remember being on holiday in Wexford onetime, near Curraghcloe Beach, staying with the family in a self-catering cottage, and I went outside for a sneaky cigarette at the side of the house the first evening we were there, and I'm leaning against the wall, enjoying me puff, admiring the landscape before me, when first one earwig catches my eye and I bat him away, then a second and third until I turn around and there on the wall, just right behind my head, were hundreds of the little fuckers crawling about. There was a little hole there where they must have had a nest.

Talk about getting a shock.

But I could deal with that, there were outside, we were inside. 'They're no bother out there', I thought until I went to pour a bowl of cornflakes the next morning and a handful of 'em come scattering out of the bowl... :eek:

Haha same thing happened to us while camping years ago. We didn’t notice them in the pot until my little nephew asked what the white things were in his dinner. Turned out we’d boiled a load of them and most of us were finished

bambera

No earwigs, getting every other creature though. We put down mouse traps with chocolate. Came down stairs the next morning to find ants had come along and taken the chocolate without even setting the trap off.

Found a slug in the kitchen sink also.

SadieSue

I used to hate earwigs but since I've moved here to Canada... I have found these in my apartment. Its a house centipede. At least they eat earwigs and silverfish.

Head_Hunter

SadieSue wrote: »

I used to hate earwigs but since I've moved here to Canada... I have found these in my apartment. Its a house centipede. At least they eat earwigs and silverfish.

:eek: looking at that thing, I'd prefer earwigs!

ScumLord

I don't have any bug problems. I do have a horse problem though, I got a spider to catch the fly and now things have gotten out of hand.

msg11

I have a Magpie problem. I can't even open the window, because there nest entrance is in the gutter above the window. ****ting myself, one of the bastards will fly in and **** all over the place.

They make some racket up there too , you can just hear there claws on the plasterboard .

GLaDOS

stupidusername wrote: »

YES I have an extreme phobia of earwigs.eugh even the name makes me shiver.....

Stop talking about them. They can't fly. THEY CAN'T!!!! Please say they can't!?

They can, but if i's any consolation, they usually don't

Flojo

msg11 wrote: »

I have a Magpie problem. I can't even open the window, because there nest entrance is in the gutter above the window. ****ting myself, one of the bastards will fly in and **** all over the place.

They make some racket up there too , you can just hear there claws on the plasterboard .

One word....


Fireworks!

christ on a bike!

msg11 wrote: »

I have a Magpie problem. I can't even open the window, because there nest entrance is in the gutter above the window. ****ting myself, one of the bastards will fly in and **** all over the place.

They make some racket up there too , you can just hear there claws on the plasterboard .

Well I got bats all over the attic and they often fly into the house at dusk.
I think they're quite cool and harmless but they terrify the f*ck out of visitors squelong 'they'll get cayght in my hair' and 'they have rabies' and other such nonsense

Flojo

christ on a bike! wrote: »

Well I got bats all over the attic and they often fly into the house at dusk.
I think they're quite cool and harmless but they terrify the f*ck out of visitors squelong 'they'll get cayght in my hair' and 'they have rabies' and other such nonsense

But they can get caught in your hair.. I saw it on tv once, it must be true! :eek:

christ on a bike!

Flojo wrote: »

But they can get caught in your hair.. I saw it on tv once, it must be true! :eek:

I saw one turn into a vampire on TV before! :eek:

Scarydoll

artanevilla wrote: »

The day I found out earwigs could fly was the worst day of my life.

What!!!?!?! They can fly??? I hate them feckin things so much. They make me retch.

Abrasax

Kiera wrote: »

Haha same thing happened to us while camping years ago. We didn’t notice them in the pot until my little nephew asked what the white things were in his dinner. Turned out we’d boiled a load of them and most of us were finished

You boiled them in your food?

You're doing it all wrong. Dry roasted with a squeeze of lemon is where it's at.

Flojo

christ on a bike! wrote: »

I saw one turn into a vampire on TV before! :eek:

No fricken way... did it glitter in the sun and look extremely moody? They're the real type of vamps you know!

gfphillips

x in the city wrote: »

these little bastards seem to be everywhere lately


anyone else have earwig issues at home?

yeh, we're having major issues with them. There were some in my babies bottle steriliser this morning and then when we made cofffee and went for a refill there was one on the coffee machine - ooohhh!!!

It's the same in my relations house - they seem to be everyehere at the minute.

Maybe one of their natural predators is round in low numbers this summer...

We are scrubbing the whole house today to try and get rid of them. I heard that the natural pesticide boric acid granuals is pretty good at warding them off.

Run_to_da_hills

My older brother told me as a kid that earwigs could creep into your ear and burst your ear drum with their nippers and then lay their eggs, they still give me the creeps to this day.

I haven't seen a single earwig this year. Mostly just a few flies and spiders here and there, but they're alright.

PMBC

Well they're back - in the garden potted plants.
How do I get rid of them/deal with them?

PMBC

PMBC wrote: »

Well they're back - in the garden potted plants.
How do I get rid of them/deal with them?

It took them 7 years to come back.

Another recession might get rid of them.

Beta Ray Bill

Noticing Silverfish everywhere I go these days

Manky yokes
Only way to kill them all is a bug bomb

RobertKK

Earwigs, harmless creatures.

https://www.orkin.com/other/earwigs/

PMBC

I'm now inclined o agree with you - they do little if any harm. Don't see any damage to leaves on plants; repotted a small plant and underneath there were lots of them. It was my better half's concern, really.

PandaPoo

My husband cut some weeds in our garden, and there was hundreds of them crawling around. It was disgusting! So now he has to hang out the washing because I'm not going out there.

LordSutch

Haven't seen any earwigs in years!

I thought they'd died out.

Capt'n Midnight

Yakult wrote: »

Woodlice are what Im seeing these day. ugly bastards.

You'll love giant isopods then

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