Earwig

Earwig
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EARWIG, an insect belonging to the Forficulidae, a family usually referred to the Orthoptera, but sometimes regarded as typifying a special order, to which the names Dermaptera, ...

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Earwig
Related Category: Zoology: Invertebrates
common name for any of the smooth, elongated insects of the order Dermaptera.

Common earwig
Forficula auricularia
Despite its name and threatening appearance, the common earwig is a harmless and interesting creature.
Statistics
Earwigs are 8-18mm long.

Earwig is the common name given to the insect order Dermaptera characterized by membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings (hence the literal name of the order-"skin wings").

Earwigs belong to a group of insects of their own. And where most major insectgroups have very varying species, earwigs are all pretty much the same.

Earwigs in your roses? Not a problem! "A single toad might eat up to 1,500 earwigs in a summer," says Robert Johnson, curator of amphibians and reptiles at Canada's Metro Toronto Zoo. Uhm, how, you might ask, did he arrive at that number?

Saint Helena earwig (Labidura herculeana)
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Insects in this order are known as earwigs. This name derives from the belief that earwigs invade people's ears, but this is a superstition. Earwigs are omnivores, meaning they feed on a variety of plants and animals, dead and living.

Order: Dermaptera (earwigs)
Order: Mantodea (mantids)
Order: Blattodea (cockroaches)
Order: Isoptera (termites)
Order: Embioptera (web-spinners)
Order: Zoraptera (angel insects) ...

Hedgehogs hunt at night, searching for earthworms and insects such as millipedes and earwigs. They also eat beetles, caterpillars, slugs, and mice.
A hedgehog will also eat dead animals and soft fruit.

Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants. These can range from 10 to 150 mm in length, with the preferred size of prey being around 20-30 mm.

This shrew is thought to feed largely on both larval and adult insects; captive specimens have eaten a wide variety of food including mealworms, cutworms, crickets, cockroaches, houseflies, grasshoppers, moths, beetles, earwigs, centipedes, ...

Insectivore ants, beetles, earwigs, dragonflies, grasshoppers and some plant matter.
Life Span:
8-10 years.

Diet in the Wild: They are omnivorous, eating just about anything, including insects (beetles, ants, and earwigs), vegetation, small birds, other toads and frogs, lizards, small mammals, snakes, table scraps, and dog and cat food.

Hairy as Bigfoot, swift as a barracuda and nearly the size of a tarantula, the Wolf Spider, like other hunting spiders, may ambush or run down its prey, which includes insects such as earwigs, ants, beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, ...

INSECTS, Ants, Bees, Beetles, Caterpillars, Dragonflies, Flies, Grasshoppers, Bugs, Termites, Neuropteran, Proturans, Leafhoppers, Mayflies, Earwigs, Parasitic, Scorpions, Spiders, Ticks and Mites, Pillbugs, Myriapods, ...

The black widow conceals itself in a funnel-shaped retreat connected to an irregular mesh of coarse silk close to the ground where it entangles prey: cockroaches, earwigs and crickets.

Weed seeds, cereal gleanings, and small insects and their larvae, including beetles, true bugs, ants, earwigs, and orthopterans are consumed (Johnsgard, 1988; Alderton, 1992). (Alderton, 1992; Johnsgard, 1988) ...

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