Earwig Invasion

[monstersinthedungeon]

The last few weeks I have been inundated with earwigs, they're everywhere.  I wouldn't say it's a plague, as such, but there are lots of them inside the house mostly around the kitchen sink.  So far I have been bitten (or stung?) twice and inadvertently swallowed one (little bugger was swimming in my drink and I didn't notice him until too late X-()

What are they coming in for?  And how do I get rid of the damn things?

[crystal**flake]

We have baby crickets everywhere here at the moment.

[b3llag1na]

Plagues of insects of any kind (or any fast breeding critter for that matter)  can happen whenever the conditions are ideal for them.

I've lived through beetle, earwig, millipede, moth, mouse etc etc plagues....

Eventually nature will balance again and they will die back to normal population levels.

You can try blocking gaps / using surface sprays / squishing as many as you can but from my experiences nothing much helps.

[fiestas*girl]

whats an earwig?

seriously i thought they were the imagination of horror movie writers?

anyone got a pic?

[monstersinthedungeon]

Crystal, I would gladly swap you my earwigs for your baby crickets.  Don't mind crickets at all. Earwigs are HORRIBLE.

Thanks Bella, I have been using bug spray to little avail, hopefully they'll all bugger off soon from whence they came!

Fiesta, they're horrid little critters, they bite/sting (not aggressively the way some bugs do, but I've accidentally picked a couple up in, for example, a teatowel and they've bitten/stung me through that.

This is them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earwig

[fiestas*girl]

I, like Crystal would gladly swap a bug bite or two for the cicadas in my ears...

who would have thought that the sound of silence would be so precsious?

(signed a head banger from way back...)

[crystal**flake]

Monster.......I'm embrassing my crickets.  They actually bring good luck, I never hurt them.

[the_hawk*]

Earwigs are the pits, I was on the loo one day and got bitten,  have heard the song about the redback on the toilet seat

[the*scarlet*pimpernel]

we get thousands of slater beetles, don't know what that's about, but the ground is black with them marching off to somewhere.

Fiesta I'll swap you my baby galahs for your cicadas. Who said the country side was quiet and peaceful? dang birds are squarking all day wanting to be fed. (wild galahs not pets)

[kopenhagen5]

Insects are coming to houses more to be nearer water because of the dry conditions over the last 5-6 years. They can smell water.