Common name : European earwig
Scientific name : Forficula auricularia
Family : Forficulidae
Native to : Indo-West Pacific region
Interesting fact : Stories
revolving around how the earwig uses its pincers to go into a human’s ear and travel into the brain are just superstitions created on account of this bug’s appearance.
About 15 mm in length, the European earwig is a major pest to all agricultural crops. Mostly nocturnal, the earwig hides during the day in flowers, plants and crevices and hunts for food ranging from plants to small insects at night. A female can lay about 50 eggs in an underground nest, which she guards and cleans from fungal growth until they hatch.
