Posted: 7/6/2010 4:51:22 PM EDT
| Can anything be done about these bastards? My wife bought some Spectracide(the quart jug that goes on a garden hose) and some indoor spray. we haven't used it yet, and her dad said I should buy a gallon jug of the same stuff so we have enough. Things I have read*(newspaper articles and a few online things) basically say little to nothing can be done other than kill what you see. Would the gallon jug of Spectracide work, or is there something else that will? |
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Fire. Works great for one bug at a time, on a nonburnable surface, and the bugs seem to like it-they wiggle around and stay right there  . I'm looking for a faster solution than one at a time that won't necessitate a replacement house.I kind of like my house-it's on the small side but plenty of room for me, my wife, daughter, guns and ammo.
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You may want to treat the inside and outside perimeter of your house with something like Cypermethrin (brand names Demon WP, Cyper WP etc)
It looks like spectracide is an outdoor use only type thing. More info here |
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I use the (spectracide i think) variety that comes in the shaker bag. Usually when these bastards show up It's also time to fertilize the lawn so I use the stuff with incecticide for the whole damn lawn. Not inexpensive but I had no more earwigs in a week.
I never rememember seeing these things like this in the past now they are everywhere. I was clearing brush this weekend & knocked off a dead treebranch w/ loose bark....hundreds came pouring out. i don't think they hurt anything but they certainly are damn creepy. |
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My Grandad used to lay old burlap sacks on and around all the trees in the yard at night, then next moring would shake out all the earwigs that had collected in them and the chickens would eat them right up ............... Wait. You have chickens, right?  Our neighbors had copperheads all over their place by the creek. Asked us what we did to get rid of em. We just smiled and pointed at the pigs. 
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I remember the summer about 10 years ago those fuckers were EVERYWHERE, like an infestation. Nowadays I hardly see them at all, can't say i've seen one this year. Same here in Michigan. I didn't get mad though, until they started eating my watermelon leaves. I sent away for an info packet from the local college extension program. Basically what it said is that if you kill off the "colony" - or whatever it's called - it takes a while for them to establish a new one. For a week, I killed them everywhere I saw them. They like dark places especially. I probably killed thousands all around the yard. Didn't use any poison, I actually carried around a rubber mallet.  This is the first year, in almost eight years, that they have started to reappear - but not in numbers anything close to what they were before. So the good news - I guess - is kill the shit out of them now, and maybe they will more or less disappear for the next few years.
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Can anything be done about these bastards? My wife bought some Spectracide(the quart jug that goes on a garden hose) and some indoor spray. we haven't used it yet, and her dad said I should buy a gallon jug of the same stuff so we have enough. Things I have read*(newspaper articles and a few online things) basically say little to nothing can be done other than kill what you see. Would the gallon jug of Spectracide work, or is there something else that will? Roll up some newspapers and leave them out at night. In the morning dip them in waterto drown the bastards as they will be full of earwigs... |
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Same here in Michigan. I didn't get mad though, until they started eating my watermelon leaves. I sent away for an info packet from the local college extension program. Basically what it said is that if you kill off the "colony" - or whatever it's called - it takes a while for them to establish a new one. For a week, I killed them everywhere I saw them. They like dark places especially. I probably killed thousands all around the yard. Didn't use any poison, I actually carried around a rubber mallet. This is the first year, in almost eight years, that they have started to reappear - but not in numbers anything close to what they were before. So the good news - I guess - is kill the shit out of them now, and maybe they will more or less disappear for the next few years.I haven't seen any in Michigan in years, but then this year I've had a couple in my house. They must be making a comeback. |
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Same here in Michigan. I didn't get mad though, until they started eating my watermelon leaves. I sent away for an info packet from the local college extension program. Basically what it said is that if you kill off the "colony" - or whatever it's called - it takes a while for them to establish a new one. For a week, I killed them everywhere I saw them. They like dark places especially. I probably killed thousands all around the yard. Didn't use any poison, I actually carried around a rubber mallet. This is the first year, in almost eight years, that they have started to reappear - but not in numbers anything close to what they were before. So the good news - I guess - is kill the shit out of them now, and maybe they will more or less disappear for the next few years.I haven't seen any in Michigan in years, but then this year I've had a couple in my house. They must be making a comeback. Same here also. The back yard has been infested with them. Every time I take the cover off the BBQ it's an adventure. |