Insect Discovered in my Home the Earwig

[euplusia]

I have it in the garden but have never seen one in my orchid pots. Maybe because sometimes I spray an insecticide.
This type of insects prefers to live in the garden and does not enter the house.
It is amazing how uncommon the view of insects has become to many people nowadays, and I include my family, who always calls for me to catch them and bring them out, spiders included.

[MattWoelfsen]

Earwigs do not find a home in any of my bark potted plants but they seem to live in plants that are in sphagnum moss. I started seeing Earwigs when I received a shipment from an orchid vendor in California. When these orchids travel that far they arrive dry and thirsty. I watered my first plant and an earwig fell out, startled the heck out of me! Another shipment later, another Earwig. Since then, every plant I bought from this vendor--and from every other vendor too--gets dunked in a bucket of warm water and neem oil. They stay in that bucket for an hour. I usually get three or four of them floating around trying to crawl up the sides of the bucket.

Intellectually I understand that they are pretty innocuous bugs but I still don't care for them as roommates!

[Bobits]

We have a lot of earwigs where I live. They grows me out. We call them mini-scorpions (just my household!) ahhhhhh!!!!!! Stay away from me you scorpions!

[DaRealKevinGibson]

Originally Posted by ronaldhanko

They're called earwigs because they crawl into people's ears and eat their brains!!!!!!!! :-))))))

They are called earwigs due to the MYTH that they crawl in people's ears. This is not true. I've just never ever seen one. I've seen plenty of cockroaches in my day being from the projects but now that I've moved on up in life the only bug I will tolerate are spiders! I'm a spider freak! I love those eight legged hunters of the bugs I hate like the housefly. I have one daddy long legs that I let live in my home. He or she eats all the flies that dare venture into my crib!!! Muhahahahahahahahaha get em Spidey!!!! But that earwig is creepy because of those darn pincers and it does look dangerous nice to hear that it won't harm anyone in my home. But my orchids though RosieC? I can't have that!!!!! My orchids are still in bloom and I will not repot them now. Also I refuse to pot them in anything but orchid pots and I have 3 big orchids! Went on repotme.com and saw that price and almost caught a Fred Sanford heart attack!!!!


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[Island Girl]

Lol, yep repotme is a little bit pricey! try Kellys Korner! Or FirstRays (he is a member here, GREAT prices, for those of us who don't have anywhere local ) I let spiders live in my house too.. They eat all the stupid fruit flies we get down here... I just don't let brown recluses stay in my house that's asking a bit too much! For some reason, and I know they are harmless, but earwigs creep me out too! It's those pinchers!

Haha, I remember The Twilight Zone!

[No-Pro-mwa]

Originally Posted by Island Girl

Lol, yep repotme is a little bit pricey! try Kellys Korner! Or FirstRays (he is a member here, GREAT prices, for those of us who don't have anywhere local ) I let spiders live in my house too.. They eat all the stupid fruit flies we get down here... I just don't let brown recluses stay in my house that's asking a bit too much! For some reason, and I know they are harmless, but earwigs creep me out too! It's those pinchers!

Haha, I remember The Twilight Zone!

No way you are to young.. Any hoo the only spiders I let live in my house is the jumping spiders for some reason i like them. When the blake widows moved in it was a spider attack.

[Island Girl]

Originally Posted by No-Pro-mwa

No way you are to young.. Any hoo the only spiders I let live in my house is the jumping spiders for some reason i like them. When the blake widows moved in it was a spider attack.

It was actually still on when I was young! But, I did grow up hearing my mom talk about it, and most of what I had seen were probably re-runs... But I definitely get the reference Another I remember is "Unsolved Mysteries"... Lol that, for some reason, reminded me of Twilight Zone... Don't know why

Jumping spiders freak me out just a little.. but they really don't particularly bother me too much (not even the (wild, & beautiful purple iridescent) tarantula my brother & I were looking at when our family visited the Amazon Rainforest some years ago - that jumped toward us (...& they can JUMP!) - I've never before, or since, experienced my 6 foot tall brother scream at such a high pitch, and jump into my arms like a "girl" so fast! ...I was laughing so hard, I was crying )

Edit:
Gosh, sorry KevinGibson, I seemed to have gotten off topic slightly My apologies good sir!
Oh, and here's the links to the sites I recommended earlier, & forgot to add..
First Ray's site:
First Rays LLC
Kelly's Korner:
Kelley's Korner Orchid Supplies, We offer everything to grow great Orchids!