Maybe I’m strange, but I actually like these ugly little critters. Sure, they can be quite the pest, especially in large numbers since they can cause considerable damage to plants (they also eat other insects that cause damage), and their pincers can hurt a bit if you manage to piss one off.
An average earwig’s expected life span is about a year and, contrary to the commonly held belief, they very rarely crawl into a person’s ear since earwigs prefer cooler, dark, and damp places (ie. under a rock or in a basement). A little known fact, though, is that earwigs are actually capable of flight, though it is something that they don’t normally do.
Earwigs are not known to carry any diseases that are harmful to humans or other animals but what I find to be their most endearing trait is that female earwigs are known to raise their young from their time in the egg up through their second molt – a rare trait in the insect world. Little baby earwigs are kind of cute, too.
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