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| Written by Jono Cono Earwigs are in full effect this summer and are annoyingly making their way inside. We never had a problem with Earwigs in previous years but I think the potted plants our neighbours put outside close to our front door are attracting them. Almost every night I can walk over to the front door and catch a half dozen or more crawling around. The occasional one finds it’s way upstairs but it’s rare thankfully.
I did some reading on creating traps for Earwigs and how to get rid of them. One of the methods was putting out a low can/container of vegatable oil and apparently they’ll crawl in and die. I’m not sure why Earwigs are attracted to oil but we unwittingly found out it works well.
We had cleaned out the grease catcher on our BBQ and forgot the can outside for about a week. When I went to pick it up it was full of dead Earwigs and pretty gross looking. I think I’m going to put a can with vegtable oil outside by the front door and hopefully trap all the Earwigs before they make their way inside.
Earwig Death Camp
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