Appearance: Flat, elongated body with slender antennae and two prominent pincers at the tip of abdomen. The males' pincers are large and curved, whereas the females' are straight. Adult earwigs are ...

With springtime rains upon us in Oklahoma, your backyard might be becoming the perfect environment for the dreaded earwig. Here's what to know if you've seen these bugs in your yard, or if they've ...

The wet winter is to blame for the invasion, as such an environment "is conducive for them to actually breed more and lay more eggs," entomologist Dr. Chow-Yang Lee told KCBS. But the creepy-looking ...

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 ...

Nobody likes spotting bugs at the best of the times, and if you’ve spotted these brown crawlies around your home, you'll need to know how to get rid of earwigs. Contrary to its name, earwigs have ...

One advantage of being an entomologist is that there's never a lack of material for small talk (as it were); with close to a million described insect species, there's an almost inexhaustible supply of ...

Earwigs, pincher bugs, whatever you call them — they’re about to be everywhere. This spring, the insects have been laying low. But as KCBS’ JoyBenedict reports, they’re ready for their close-up. The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) – There have been ...

British author, naturalist and biologist Dave Goulson states that earwigs do not “have great press” and that it is very unlikely that an Earwig Preservation Trust will be formed for them. Indeed, ...