Featured Creatures: European
Earwig. University of Florida IFAS: Department of Entomology and Nematology.
The
earwig of the book's title is claimed to have burrowed into many ears, according to urban legends.
There were no significant differences found by the
earwig parasitoids (Fig.
Earwig's story is told through his eyes of innocence and honesty as he spends his days working in the family grocery, sucker fishing with Jimmy and his friends, playing with his young friend Eddie and visiting his Pa at the local garage.
In one of several experiments in their study of forceps (cerci) size and symmetry in
earwigs (Forficula auricularia) Radesater and Halldorsdottir (1993) placed "two male
earwigs (matched for size and cerci length but one with symmetrical, one with asymmetrical cerci) .
The European
earwig is split into two groups differing at the molecular level and in their reproductive life history.
In the evenings our front and back porches are covered with
earwigs. Last summer we had a fathers' and sons' outing at our homestead.
If you don't see the silvery trails typical of snails and slugs,
earwigs may be the culprits feasting on tender foliage.
| Richard Veal of Colwyn Bay's Welsh Mountain Zoo went to the Atlantic island of St Helena in spring 1988, with a view of finding specimens of a rare species of
earwig, to bring them back to this country to breed them.
| Make
earwig traps by filling small plastic pot with dampened straw and placing it upside down on top of a cane at a similar height to the you want to protect.
Not sure the
earwig on the bottom of the badge looks very good though Steve Williams Tan has given you what you wanted and fans are still moaning.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTIONS WEE THINKER ACROSS: 7 Cheetah 9 Aping 10 Pushy 11 Retrace 12 Ran 13 Specials 16 Cleanser 17 Nib 19 Earache 21 Oasis 22 Maple 23 Tombola DOWN: 1 Sceptre 2 Personal 3 Stay 4 Earthier 5 Tina 6 Egret 8 Hornet's nest 13 Searcher 14 Long shot 15 Abysmal 18 Germs 20 Ropy 21 Ohms QUICKIE ACROSS: 1 Plaster cast 8 Duo 9 Not 1 Amateur 12 Dough 13 Nan 14 Bay 15 Visited 17 Err 19 Ogle 21 Over 23 Area 25 Mate 27 See 29 Take off 31 Sue 34 Rip 36 Ended 37 Precede 38 Rig 39 All 40 Temperature DOWN: 1 Puma 2 Loan 3 Sterile 4
Earwig 5 Cadge 6 Snub 7 Toga 8 Dance 10 Thyme 16 Doe 18 Rot 20 Gas 22 Vet 24 Reflect 25 Miser 26 Pepper 28 Expel 30 Add up 32 Unit 33 Edge 34 Rear 35 Idle
The Ever So Curvy Ginormous Bridge, The Big Weird Glass
Earwig On The River, The Ooh!
Eventually, they managed to pull out half of it, and as soon as we saw the black pincers, we knew it was an
earwig. The body of the insect was still firmly lodged, but then a young doctor decided to try to suck it out using a syringe and a small piece of tube.
MY daughter claims an
earwig evolves into a Jenny Long Legs.
