My true earwig horror story. About 8 hears ago I lived in California where my home backed up to Long Beach channels. My deck was concrete with only a few plants scattered around. I kept noticing more and more earwig bugs on the deck at nite. One nite I was in my house when my doggie wanted to go outside. As I approached my sliding glass door I noticed the sliding door was completely covered in earwigs from top to bottom, as well as the 4 windows in the kitchen, on the same wall as the slider, that faced the channel. In fear of them coming in the house I did not open the back door. I went out the side door and much to my horror the entire back of my house was completely covered solid with those nasty bugs. Im not exaggerating, like a SCI-FI movie. In the morning they were gone. I learned they are nocturnal. I tried vegetable oil in a few empty plastic butter tubs with no lids. Because of my dog I put the tubs out of his sight on the deck. That evening they seemed to be gone. I went outside to check the traps when I saw the first 2 tubs were overflowing with thousands of earwigs but when I got to the last 2 traps I noticed they were completely filled with earwigs but dry of oil which led me to believe my dog lapped up the over 1 cup of oil. I called an emergency vets. hot line to see what will happen to my dog. Thank goodness they said he would be okay but to watch out for lots of diarrhea. He was okay and after that I never saw another earwig. Please use caution with pets around earwig traps.
My true earwig horror story. About 8 hears ago I lived in California where my home backed up to Long Beach channels. My deck was concrete with only a few plants scattered around. I kept noticing more and more earwig bugs on the deck at nite. One nite I was in my house when my doggie wanted to go outside. As I approached my sliding glass door I noticed the sliding door was completely covered in earwigs from top to bottom, as well as the 4 windows in the kitchen, on the same wall as the slider, that faced the channel. In fear of them coming in the house I did not open the back door. I went out the side door and much to my horror the entire back of my house was completely covered solid with those nasty bugs. Im not exaggerating, like a SCI-FI movie. In the morning they were gone. I learned they are nocturnal. I tried vegetable oil in a few empty plastic butter tubs with no lids. Because of my dog I put the tubs out of his sight on the deck. That evening they seemed to be gone. I went outside to check the traps when I saw the first 2 tubs were overflowing with thousands of earwigs but when I got to the last 2 traps I noticed they were completely filled with earwigs but dry of oil which led me to believe my dog lapped up the over 1 cup of oil. I called an emergency vets. hot line to see what will happen to my dog. Thank goodness they said he would be okay but to watch out for lots of diarrhea. He was okay and after that I never saw another earwig. Please use caution with pets around earwig traps.