Oldest arthropod urban legend: the brain-boring earwig The common name of the "earwig," entomologically a member of the order Dermaptera, derives from the Old English "ear wicga," which, roughly ...

"There is a superstition that earwigs burrow into the ears of people while they sleep," says Restuccia. "This is a myth and has no scientific basis." Do earwigs go in your ear? No, earwigs do not ...

Journal of Insect Physiology 21: 89–109. Kamimura Y. 2007. Possible atavisms of genitalia in two species of earwig (Dermaptera), Proreus simulans (Chelisochidae) and Euborellia plebeja (Anisolabididae ...