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A scavenging insect of the Dermaptera order. Earwigs have long, narrow bodies and pincers at the rear. They may damage plants, especially those with dense flowerheads, as they can provide it with food and shelter.

Earwigs, which can be up to 14mm long, hide during the day and emerge at night to feed. The females lay eggs in late-winter, usually in the soil, which hatch in spring. Although earwigs can damage plants, they also eat small pests and their eggs

Has anyone got any brilliant ideas of how to stop earwigs eating my Roses An upturned pot filled with straw/shreaded paper put out at night time and taken away to another part of the garden in the morning is the traditional tip. They are nocturnal

Hi l have been searching through my books looking for a treatment for earwig damage as they destroyed my daffodils leaves and petals right back to the core.l have found your information in the pest section and l have found something called Hylex

Earwigs are destroying everything I plant at the moment (salad/brassicas/herbs/clematis). It's definitely earwigs as I've done a midnight raid with a torch & it's swarming with them. I've tried upturned flowerpots with straw in, but this barely

There's a spider the size of a gardening glove in my compost bin. It obviously gets a good living in there, feeding on the flies, woodlice, beetles and earwigs, the remains of which can be vaguely guessed in its untidy sheet of a web. I wouldn

on the internet it seems that comos are generally 'pest free'. So whats eating mine?? Many thanks!  Possibly earwigs if it is just flowers-is the damage like this? http://apps.rhs.org.uk/advicesearch/profile.aspx?pid=494   I agree with stongeoff that it could

and how to stop it? I sprayed the plant with bug killer when I discovered 3 of the buds were damaged but since then another two have been infected. Is this a peony or a rose Heddy? I think it might well be earwigs. One trick is to fill a smallflowerpot

it is only one that is affected.  The same thing happened last year so I've yet to see it flower. Georgial - any chance of a photo?   It could be earwigs - they are partial to clematis flowers. You can't eradicate them, but you can catch them in newspaper

perennials and bedding plantsCollect seed from any flowers you fancy propagatingTrap earwigs among dahlias with upside-down pots stuffed with straw and balanced on canesPick leaves off plants affected by rose blackspotTrim conifer hedges and evergreen hedges