Besides enduring weeks of the 17-year cicada brood cacophony in 2024, we also dealt with the itch mite invasion that followed, an overabundance of earwigs in late spring and Asian lady beetle hordes ...

Getting their name from the side to side body movement and an old tale of crawling in people’s ears, the earwig is a common and distinguishable household pest causing angst to homeowners for many ...

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Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. As a kid, you might have first encountered earwigs as a kind of ...

British author, naturalist and biologist Dave Goulson states that earwigs do not “have great press” and that it is very unlikely that an Earwig Preservation Trust will be formed for them. Indeed, ...

Are insects really declining as badly as previous studies have forecasted? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address as an international team of more than a dozen researchers ...