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How do you control earwigs?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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14y ago

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Clarification needed: do you mean how to get rid of an earwig or how to give an earwig a home, food, and care? If the first, use earwig bait. If the second, an earwig can do that best for itself.

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3y ago
i want a earwig as a pet but all that coes up on the internet is how to get rid of them
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14y ago

squish em'! Kill 'um instead with a sudsy mix of liquid detergent, water and alcohol...keep it fairly thick -- think cooking oil, not dishwater. Soak the ground where there are suspected nests; go around your foundation and sidewalk cracks, anyplace those little suckers hide (under rocks, near trees and shrubs, etc.). When this sudsy water hits them it will kill them in less than ten seconds.

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14y ago

The most basic technique for controlling earwigs or other scavenging vermin is just to be very neat with your food and never leave anything edible lying around, unless it is in a tight and sturdy container that earwigs can't get into. If they have nothing to eat, they either starve, or go elsewhere in search of food. In addition, you can help this process along with insecticide. But only neatness gives any long-term protection. If you kill insects with insecticide, sooner or later the insects will be back, if there is food for them to eat.

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How do you kill an earwig?

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Raid

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Water

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