Earwigs belong to a small insect order, ... They rarely fly. Their bodies are elongated with the abdomen extending well beyond the wings and ending in a pair of forceps-like pinchers, or cerci.

Earwigs rarely fly and are unable to crawl long distances, however they have a knack for getting indoors via laundry baskets, cut flowers, luggage, newspapers, cardboard boxes, ...

Earwigs are an insect, but are in a separate group and not closely related to other kinds of insects, Lewis explained. They have their own insect order and are recognized by those large pincers on the ...

Abundant and widely distributed as they are, earwigs do not appear in large numbers. Yet in Curious Facts in the History of Insects of 1865, Frank Cowan related that, in August 1755, in parishes near ...

While the earwigs, an order of insects with 2,000 different species on six continents, do use their admittedly alarming-looking pincers, or forceps, to hunt and hold one another during mating ...

You lift a stone and staring up at you is a little insect with its tail curled and pincers ready to inflict who knows what. Then you see its attendants – tiny white insects, huddled underneath. Should ...

They were earwigs. Sefton, who works 12-hour shifts as a physician assistant, said she’s never seen so many earwigs in the years she’s been gardening.

Male earwigs are known to show positive allometry in their forceps—pincer-like appendages at the tip of the abdomen—which are believed to have evolved as weapons in battles with rivals. But ...