Earwigs, specifically the European earwig can do some serious damage to your seedlings, cornstalks, and fruit – but they ALSO eat insect eggs, aphids, and other soft-bodied pests. If you have too many earwigs in your garden, here are two organic earwig traps you can use to cut down on their populations a bit to protect your crops.
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Either of these work for you guys? What pests should I do next?
Captain jacks dead bug brew its organic and is a contact kill
Would oil and lime work ?
I'm currently dealing with those guys now. I use vegetable oil and soy sauce traps and they work pretty well. My garden is a war zone.
OMG I never thought of using those for a raised bed!
going to hardware store now.
seriously.
they eat aphids!!!
I love them.
they eat my plants…. I hate them….
Soy sauce in olive oil works
Add soya sauce to oil. Works really well.
Had a retail nursery for 25 years. Customers always told of their earwig battles. I found a regular sheet of newspaper folded at its crease, rolled into a cone shape, twist the small end tight. Lightly mist the cone (not so much to collapse it totally) and tuck them here and there under foliage in the evening. Make up a bucket with soapy water to have ready. Usually in the morning the little critters will have take up house in the newspaper. You can leave them for a few days even. Go around in the daylight, collect the cones and dump into the soapy bucket. Fold over the big end to prevent them from bailing out on you. Earwigs and ticks…ugh!
We have earwigs inside our apartment! How the hell do we get rid of them!
Couldn't you just get some brighter solar panel garden lights for night and they'd hate that and stay away from the plants?
I did not know they had benefits in the garden! Do they like eat vine borers? I was able to confirm their damage on my marigolds and read that they can eat at ripe tomatoes so I will set traps near tomatoes plants.
I have a corn plant that’s just starting to reveal the silks. I’ve just noticed earwigs on the tops of the silks inside. Any recommendations?
They were all over my kale
They're in my house, everyone puts trap in garden. Can you use these traps inside?
I hate those things they remind me of roaches
The oil and soya sauce mixture works really well. I have a problem with earwigs attacking my lettuce plants, so I planted a big pot of oil and soya sauce, it worked.
Thank you! I have too many earwigs so am going to try the oil trap. I might also try the rolled up paper. Going to subscribe to help your channel! Good luck and thanks again for the useful info!
We just paid $130. to have our AC Tech. come out to "Repair" our Unit (which he just serviced 3 weeks ago), which stopped working on THE HOTTEST DAY of the Summer (Humidex of 100F). An earwig made its way into the unit, crawled into a contact, got fried, and broke the connection from the contact. Did I mention I HATE EARWIGS ?! …and it's a bumper year for the little vermin. Yuck !
Love this idea!! And I just saw that beer traps work for pill bugs!!
Scam. I put olive oil with dog food to attract and nothing came. bugs are everywhere else
ear wigs in my yard: I sleep
ear wigs in my room: So you have chosen death
Earwigs munch through my young potato plants to the point where the heirloom varieties I have planted are killed off and for some reason they’re not attracted to the oil traps I’ve laid out as they used to be.
Wait im confused about the second trap. Why would they climb into the rolled up magazine?
I always blamed the resident wild rabbit for my seedlings' disappearance 🙂
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