The world has lost a giant: this week the IUCN Red List officially declared St. Helena giant earwig (Labidura herculeana) extinct. While its length of 80 millimeters (3.1 inches) may not seem like ...

Earwigs are attracted to homes in search of moisture, food, or shelter. Homeowners can often manage earwig issues by ...

STAUNTON — They’re flat and fast, once they’re discovered. Earwigs. Even the name can make your skin crawl and your ears tingle. Their namesake is a little bit of a misnomer. According to the Virginia ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up photo of an earwig standing on the edge of a cardboard paper. - Inkastudio/Getty Images Despite their intimidating ...

Scary-looking, dark-brown, inch-long insects have been showing up in large numbers this summer — in backyards and homes and in one reported instance, a mailbox. Retired biology professor and Free ...

There is something dramatic about spotting an earwig curled up in a leaf, pincers poised like it just stepped out of a tiny action movie. These insects look intense, a little prehistoric, and maybe ...

Think hard the next time you squish an earwig. If that earwig had babies, you’ve just orphaned them, thereby producing bigger earwigs. One wouldn’t think that earwigs have much of a home life, but ...

Every year when I tear out my sweet peas and the various poppies that reseed themselves in my front flowerbed, I do the earwig dance. The dance erupts when I’ve suddenly hit a pocket of monstrously ...

Q: I found an earwig in my clothing. How big a risk is it that this would have gone into my ear and then into my brain? A: Earwigs are pretty ubiquitous, being found all over the world — although I do ...

Despite their intimidating pincers, earwigs are much more of a nuisance than an actual threat, unless they've invaded your home in large numbers. While there are plenty of chemical sprays that can ...