What kind of bug is this?? Please help.?

Question

I have been finding these bugs everywhere. They come in the house at night. They are about 1/2 to 3/4 each long.

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Thanks!
Kimberley

Answer 1

Looks like an earwig to me.

http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/earwig.html

Answer 2

Yep that is a Earwig, they look funny and weird. I had one of those in my bathroom a week ago. They are harmless except they can and might give you a little pinch with the forceps on there tail If you try to grab it, this is just for defense.

The name "earwig" is generally said to originate from an old European belief that earwigs crawl into people's ears and lay eggs in the brain, But this is completely false.

Earwigs are most active at night and can be seen patrolling household walls and ceilings. Interaction with earwigs at this time results in a defensive free fall to the ground below, and the subsequent scramble to a nearby cleft or crevice.

Earwigs are also drawn to damp conditions. During the summer in countries that inhabit them, they can be found around sinks and in bathrooms. Earwigs tend to gather in shady cracks or openings or anywhere they can remain concealed in daylight hours. Picnic tables, compost and waste bins, patios, lawn furniture, window frames or anything with minute spaces can potentially harbor these unwanted residents. Upon gaining entry to the basement and living areas of the home, earwigs can easily find cover in undisturbed magazine and newspaper piles, furniture/wickerwork, base boards, carpeted stairways, pet food dishes, and even inside DVD cases. Earwigs are inclined to take risks and are exploratory creatures but are overly unaware of the consequences and will often find themselves trapped in poison baited cups or buckets of soapy water.

The abdomen of the earwig is flexible and muscular. It is capable of maneuvering as well as opening and closing of the forceps. The forceps are used for a variety of purposes. In some species, the forceps have also been observed in use for holding prey, and in copulation. The forceps tend to be more curved in males than in females.

Answer 3

Earwig

Answer 4

EARWIG
common name for any of the smooth, elongated insects of the order Dermaptera. Earwigs are small, with pairs of horny, forcepslike abdominal appendages, larger in the male than in the female, and short, leathery forewings that cover the membranous hindwings when folded.

Answer 5

Yep, that's an earwig. See this website for information about them ==>http://www.ivyhall.district96.k12.il.us/4th/kkhp/1insects/earwig.html

Answer 6

Yes, it is an earwig; I get them in my house, too. My cat catches them and eats them...yuck! Maybe you should get a kitten!

Answer 7

They're earwigs. We have them all over my house too.

Answer 8

I know this insect, but I don't know its name in english. Did you find it in grass? In spanish its called "Tijereta" and its not poisonous, so don't worry.