📢 New paper out in Ecotoxicology! 🪲🌿
We tested whether a common glyphosate-based weed killer harms European earwigs.
🧪 Despite exposure to high doses, we found no major effects on maternal care, development, or immunity.
This surprising resilience raises new questions: Why are earwigs so tolerant to chemical pollution?
Read more:
🔗 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10646-025-02912-w
#Ecotoxicology #Insects #Glyphosate #Pesticides #Earwigs #Science #PollutionResilience
_The Evening Post_, 14 February 1925:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
…
Respecting the earwig nuisance, the director of the #Cawthron Institute wrote to the last meeting of the #Kaikoura County Council as follows:—Referring to inquiry re earwigs, which infest the shingly ground near the sea, the insect was a native of New Zealand, and the institute knows of no method of dealing with it except by means of poisoned bait. The insects are partial to slices of apple, which, if peppered with arsenate of lead, would kill them. The director knows of no instance where earwigs had been imported from other countries as enemies of other pests.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250214.2.15
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Earwigs #Pests #PestControl #Agriculture #NewZealand
Don't often see #earwigs on the sheet (frame 2).
🐜 The amorous adventures of earwigs
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/11/the-amorous-adventures-of-earwigs/
Latest earwig assaults -- my pillowcase, inside the pantry cupboard staring arrogantly as I reached for something, and between the glass and the cover of my spouse's ipad. That one set off an alarm on the ipad leading to its discovery. Very tired of them. Spiders and lizards are not doing their work. #earwigs #insects
Now, to earwigs, which seemingly have more vibrant social lives than we do (though based on this @KnowableMag story, we’ll stick with what we’ve got). Tim Vernimmen writes about their 20-hour mating rituals, peculiar penises, protective parenting, and occasional cannibalism.
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/social-life-of-earwigs
🧵 8/12
#Science #Nature #Insects #Entomology #Earwigs #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
There are earwigs in my tent.
#Festivals #Camping #Womad #Womad24 #Womad2024 #Earwigs
I've been joking with my loved one a lot about #earwigs lately, making up stuff about their evolution and what they do in ears. They became a topic, after our garage door controller became home to one.
It makes sense that I would be struck down by some terrible inner ear thing for the last couple days, like a Star Trek Wrath of Khan level earwigs took up residence in my head.
All is resolved. Sorry for maligning earwigs. They have nothing to do with ears! Q-tips are far more dangerous.
Meet the smallest animal known to spread #seeds with its poop https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-smallest-animal-known-spread-seeds-its-poop
#Earwigs and #woodlice as some of the world's smallest internal #SeedDispersal agents: Insights from the #ecology of Monotropastrum humile (Ericaceae) https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10519
"the #woodlouse is the smallest animal yet known to disperse seeds by eating them. It and other small #invertebrates play underappreciated roles in spreading #plants far and wide."
On my way back from Bayreuth, Germany. It was fantastic to meet all these promising @dzgevol PhD students and discuss their projects. I had a blast! It was also fantastic to visit @SteigerLab. I look forward to future collaborations on family life evolution in #earwigs and #beetles!
But for the moment, it's a train journey of 10h30 that awaits me. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the many connections...
If You're cold, they're cold...
#earwig #cold #meme #bugs #bugsofmastodon #mastodonbugs #Earwigs
I am delighted to share this new paper with you. In this issue of the Annual Review of Entomology you'll find all you need to know about the "Biology and Social Life of #Earwigs"... and its #openaccess
http://www.annualreviews.org/eprint/PZRMB4PPNBW4Q5MSV8G2/full/10.1146/annurev-ento-013023-015632
_The Evening Post_, 7 Dec 1923:
EARWIGS FOR NELSON
Cattle and sheep and other domestic animals are common freight by overseas vessels coming to New Zealand, so that they soon lose their novelty and are regarded in much the same light as a piano case or a box of hardware. Insects, however, which require careful attention throughout the voyage, are another matter. Included on the cargo list of the Ruahine, which is now discharging London merchandise at Wellington, is an entry for two cases of earwigs sent from Home [i.e. the U.K.] to the Cawthorn [sic] Institute at Nelson. Many and varied were the instructions for feeding the insects on the passage, and it is to the credit of their attendants that the majority, at least, have reached the Dominion safely. Several of those which died were eaten by their fellows. It is stated that this particular brand of earwig is intended for use in apple orchards, where it is very effective in counteracting the apple blight.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19231207.2.117
#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #Earwigs #Insects #FreightTransport #CawthronInstitute #Apples #Agriculture #Biocontrol
“They’re good because they clean up rotting vegetation, organics like that, so they’re tremendous that way,” he said. “They’re also good because at the same time they’re predatory, they feed on soft-body insects.”
#novascotia #gardening #earwigs
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/european-earwigs-thriving-in-the-maritimes-this-summer-1.6517972
#BandcampFriday is coming, and it's also Earwig Month, when we celebrate Wiggy the Giant Earwig and his destruction of Earth!
today was a #bugs and birds day in the garden! i've been taking part in the #bigbutterflycount so it was great to see three species today - a red admiral, gatekeeper, and a large white butterfly (which flew too quickly to get a decent picture of!) i also spotted a #forficula #earwig and a load of #bumblebees enjoying the clovers in the sun ☀️
#myphotos #entomology #nature #insect #insects #bee #bees #bumblebee #earwigs #butterfly #butterflies #redadmiral
What’s eating my #strawberries? These bare stems had blossoms! My best guess is a #grasshopper. I saw one on the front lawn last week.
#grasshoppers
#gardening
#garden
#pests
I’ve also seen #earwigs, but the tippy-top end of a stem isn’t their turf. I think. I found one under a potted plant today, and one while rinsing my lettuce, which I harvested by cutting the whole head at the root.
Here's how I'm spending a big chunk of my three-day weekend: reading old publications about #earwigs!
This drawing is from Malcolm Burr's 1910 "The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: #Dermaptera".
Reading old publications on natural history is one of the great joys of my life.
