Earwigs

[Deleted User]

Has anyone had or have experience of getting rid of earwigs in your garden?

I went into the garden the other night to find 100's of the blasted things all over my plants.

We spent years battling slugs/snail infestations and have only just managed to get on top of that, only to now have a new pest devouring our garden.

Absolutely gutted

Farway

earwigs are mixed blessing. They can be trapped in upturned flower pots on sticks, but AFAIK a general spray & kill the lot product does not exist


I think you will need to protect your most precious plants, dahlias are one victim that springs to mind

Davesnave

Unless you are producing prize blooms for shows, earwigs are not usually a major issue. We have them and I don't notice if they do damage or not, but I suspect their numbers are contained by other creatures, like birds.

If your garden is 'infested,' it's possibly because the natural ecosystem that puts a brake on population explosions is broken.

There's no quick fix.

andrewf75

Can't imagine why they would be a problem, aren't they beneficial?

Follow Monty's advice and leave out the chemicals and let everything find a natural balance

bugfriendlygardener

Buy a copy of Dave Goulson's new book, "The Garden Jungle". Just read the part on Earwigs. They are such a good predator in apple orchards that some growers collect them from gardens and introduce them - having lost their original populations due to pesticide use. I'm a pro-gardener and owned my present ,no chemical, garden for 26 years and so I'm sure I have a balanced ecosystem in my garden. Most non 'green' gardeners are just LOOKING for problems. "Devouring your garden" - really?