The earwigs are all outdoors, I would like to make sure they do not move indoors. Also want to stop them from messing up my plants outdoors by chewing up the leaves and blooms.
2006-06-30 06:48:36 · 4 answers · asked by hatlady 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
It's really hard to get rid of Earwigs in the out doors as they can burrow up to 6 feet underground, there are plenty of pesticides in either granule form that you use in a spreader, or in liquid form that you attach to the end of a garden hose. Concentrate on anything that is dead and decomposes (yard waste, mulch, wood chip landscaping, etc.) and around the foundation. Preventing a home infestation is easier because the people who study these things say earwigs have not learned how to build nests inside homes, and are not very good at finding food inside homes. Generally if you see them inside your home they are just visiting for the night to enjoy some air conditioning. If you have a crawlspace, they can possibly live in there, though they won't find anything to eat. Get some insect spray that lists the earwig as a bug it works against (many don't). Concentrate on windows, doors and baseboards. That's generally how they get in and out of the house. Now for the organic type people, I've heard you can attract them with open bags of instant oatmeal. After you get them in the oatmeal it's up to you to figure out what to do with them.
2006-06-30 07:06:33 · answer #1 · answered by bg60 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use beer bait to rid my plants of earwigs. Just take a shollow dish, (empty, clean tuna cans work great!) fill with cheap beer and sit beside the plants the earwigs are bothering. In the morning the dish will be filled with earwigs. Just discard, clean the dish and fill it with beer again. Cheap and easy...
Diazanene (Sp?) also works. Sprinkle around perimeter of your house and the earwigs will eat it and die. You might notice an influx of bugs in your house for the first few days, (they are trying to get away from the poison.) They will quickly die and you won't have anymore.
2006-06-30 11:04:26 · answer #2 · answered by ambullmom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lay 12" pieces of bamboo on their side in the garden; at night the earwigs will crawl in. In the morning shake them into aabucket and dispose. Similar pieces stuck 3-4" into the soil with the ends up will also attract them. You can get ahead of them if you do it every morning for a while.
2006-06-30 10:48:17 · answer #3 · answered by dderat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Soap and water sprayed over the plants.
Then, use 7 Dust.
This will also help you with other insects as well.
2006-06-30 06:59:17 · answer #4 · answered by Texas Cowboy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋