Contoh earwig

• Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants.

• Like most other earwigs, the females care for their young during development, and the larva go through five instars before becoming adults.

• Like most earwigs, they are omnivores, and their diet consists of the larvae of leaf-mining insects, as well as certain types of vegetation.

• The abdomen of the earwig is flexible and muscular.

• Earwigs are among the few non-social insect species that show maternal care.

• Black earwigs are active at all times of the day, and prefer wet habitats.

• Interaction with earwigs at this time results in a defensive free-fall to the ground followed by a scramble to a nearby cleft or crevice.

• Multipurpose insecticides for control of earwigs, grasshoppers, sowbugs and other insects are more common.

• Earwigs readily consume corn (maize) silk and can damage the crop.

• Scientists believe that maritime earwigs practice this behavior in order to make their clutch maintain the size that best optimizes their investment.

• They have a lighter color than most other earwigs, which are usually brown, lending to their name, the tawny earwig.

• In species of winged earwigs, the wings will start to develop at this time.

• Few earwigs survive winter outdoors in cold climates.

• Earwigs live for about a year from hatching.

• The resemblance of its cerci to those of the earwig give the damselfly its common name.