earwigs

GLaDOS · 05-07-2010 05:10PM

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 · 05-07-2010 05:12PM

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! · 05-07-2010 05:18PM

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 · 05-07-2010 05:20PM

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! · 05-07-2010 05:37PM

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 · 05-07-2010 06:09PM

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 · 05-07-2010 06:12PM

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 · 05-07-2010 06:14PM

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 · 07-07-2010 09:33AM

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 · 07-07-2010 11:03AM

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.

07-07-2010 02:33PM

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

PMBC · 18-06-2017 12:37PM

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

18-06-2017 12:39PM

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 · 18-06-2017 01:00PM

Noticing Silverfish everywhere I go these days

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

RobertKK · 18-06-2017 01:33PM

Earwigs, harmless creatures.

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

PMBC · 18-06-2017 04:25PM

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 · 18-06-2017 04:29PM

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 · 18-06-2017 04:30PM

Haven't seen any earwigs in years!

I thought they'd died out.

Capt'n Midnight · 19-06-2017 12:25AM

Yakult wrote: »

Woodlice are what Im seeing these day. ugly bastards.

You'll love giant isopods then

testicles · 19-06-2017 12:36AM

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TheDriver · 19-06-2017 12:42AM

Holy thread revival Batman

PMBC · 19-06-2017 06:06PM

PandaPoo wrote: »

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.

I do that all the time - hang out the washing, I mean

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