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 ...

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 ...

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Summertime brings about a few different things: hot temperatures, rainy days, and creatures that can startle. One creepy summertime crawly you could be seeing is an earwig. Here's what to know if you ...

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 ...

John Murray volunteers as warden for the Marshalls Heath nature reserve. Every morning for the past 32 years, I have been counting earwigs. Here at Marshalls Heath, a small nature reserve in ...