Get Rid of Earwigs With These 2 Traps!
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- Earwigs, specifically the European earwig can do some serious damage to your seedlings, cornstalks, and fruit - but they ALSO eat insect eggs, aphids, and other soft-bodied pests. If you have too many earwigs in your garden, here are two organic earwig traps you can use to cut down on their populations a bit to protect your crops.
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Either of these work for you guys? What pests should I do next?
Aphids and tomato fruit worms would be great!
Slugs and/or aphids...my only problems.
How about pillbugs and slugs. I have a problem with pillbugs and slugs eating my strawberries.
Enjoying your channel thanks for all the tips!
June bugs please. Not looking forward to those green flying garden devouring pests heading to our gardens in So Cal soon.
Spider mites
Earwigs creep me out, worse even than roaches. We hates them, Preciousss.
I used to have nightmares
They freak me out too!! 😂
I get those green with black spots Caterpillar looking thing
Silverfish gross me out even more than earwigs. >.
I call them yard roaches because like roaches they hide in dark places and scatter when you move something. I am going to have to try this because we brought them home in lawn ornaments from my grandmothers house and they have taken over.
I’m glad you came out with this, I was helping the earwigs ramp up their population because I wanted some assistance with my aphid problem and ended up shooting myself in the foot because I then began to have a REALLY big earwig problem lol . I’ve since then gotten it under control in about two weeks time using These same methods of removal. Great advice, thanks Kevin 👏🏽
Your videos are the absolute best that I've found. I'm not an amateur gardener, but I have recently added dozens more fruits and vegetables to my garden. You have a clear, concise, too the point method of instruction and your voice is so easy to listen to. Thank you!!!
We had a pretty bad earwig problem that grew over five or so years. Got six chickens (free range) and they decimated them - no more earwigs! I realize not everybody can keep chickens, but they are so awesome at pest control, constantly monitoring the entire yard and foundation of our house and barn. We got the chickens for eggs and as companions for our old goose, but they do so much more. They are also awesome leaf shredders in the fall - rake up a pile of leaves and they will shred it down to the ground in no time.
Hi Kevin! Great tips! Also, thank you for adding the link to your website in a reply below. I just spent a couple of hours reading about getting rid of different garden pests. It's now my go to! Thank you for sharing!
I had a huge earwig problem this season. They ate mostly my zinnias and marigolds but they were stressing out my seedlings. I used tuna cans with vegetable oil and a dash of bacon grease. I can say it works my plants are looking so much better. I was really worried.
What did you do exactly they are attacking my lilies
@@lisaweidner6330 I got tuna cans filled them about half way with vegetable oil. A dash of bacon grease for aroma to attract them. Then put them in the ground with the top of the can at the same level as the ground. They will fall in and once coated with the oil they’ll suffocate n die. Change them every few days depending how fast they fill with them.
Put one for every plant worked for me or about every 2-3 feet around the plants to be protected.
I will need to try this! Earwigs are so bad where I live. I’ll bring in cut flowers and they are just falling out of the flower heads. It’s so discouraging. I heard oil with soy sauce works as well!
@@yari2705 any kind of oil will work make sure to use something fragrant to attract them. This hack truly works. Good luck with the earwig war lol.
Perfect timing, to see your video. Am in a new home/garden that has abundance of earwigs. Rarely, if at all ever noticed them in my other home/garden of 26 years. Good to know they are useful too. Didn't know that & previously had aphid issues, in my previous garden. Thank you🌿
One family friend did another version of the rolled up paper...they recycled an old water hose and placed cut up pieces all over their garden. They also grow organically and it was easy for them to tap the earwigs in a bucket of water too. Great tips!
That is brilliant. I am going to try the cut up garden hose trick. Thank you.
Best gardening channel ever! I appreciate your thorough approach.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thanks for the informative video and for the tips on controlling “pincher bugs”. I’m in a semi-rural area in LA County and the birds do a good job eating them by scratching around in the mulch layer. They like to congregate under the pots in my container garden so a squirt of Sevin dust takes care of those ones. I’m going to try the sardine can trap as well.
ear wigs in my yard: I sleep
ear wigs in my room: So you have chosen death
I am so grateful for this video! I live in Pasadena, and I planted seedlings this weekend only to find them decimated. We had an earwig infestation last year so I figured the culprit for the destroyed seedlings was the same. I was right! I used three traps in different locations and caught HUNDREDS! (Which is both satisfying and terrifying...so many!). Thank you for this video!!
All thumbs down are from the earwigs. 🤣🤣🤣
sun diego hahaha!😂😆🤣
Fantastic tips. Last year was my first time with my own garden and I was too late to control them. My peppers and basil were decimated before I could get them under control. I lost most of my pepper harvest to these (can be) jerks. Few pests meant only plants to feed on. I live in a desert climate so waves of pest emergence are usually short-lived so live food ran out fast when rain and cooler weather disappeared. I am miles ahead this year with proper preparation. I opted for some D.E. early on in combination with some neem oil and I think it has helped immensely. Only a little damage so far and no further damage has occurred for the last 3 weeks.
Be careful with neem oil. A concentration as low as 1% neem oil absorbed through the skin can cause liver damage in humans.
love the frequency of your uploads lately!
I try!
Yea he's great 👍
It's not the frequency on videos Kevin is producing I love, it's the growth. I went to bed last night and he was at 520K subscribers now he's at 524K. That's amazing. That's just in a minute. Good job. 👍
Over the last few weeks alone I've watched your number of subscribers grow WILDLY: and I love it! Good channel with good knowledge from a good creator 👍 happy for you Kevin!
Thank you so much my friend!
Dude, I've been battling these since I started my garden last month. Thanks
No problem 👍
Earwigs destroyed my nectarines this season just past. Every morning I'd come out and discover pieces bitten out of the fruit. It was so frustrating as it seems as if it must be birds doing the damage yet I'm never seeing birds near the tree. I found the answer but it ended up being way too late to save most of the nectarines. Every night there must have been an army of earwigs marching up the tree trunk and gouging.
Traps similar to Kevin's using vegetable oil and soy sauce caught many hundreds of them and a ring of petroleum jelly was placed around an adjacent peach tree that would have been next in line. That made a great barrier that worked extra well.
Try Tanglefoot, you wrap it around tree trunks
Try waiting 7 years.....th-cam.com/video/daB6ync3Ytg/w-d-xo.html
They prefer sweet things like ants do. Just like European paper wasps! I hate those needless bastards! I’m a hunter of European paper wasps! They are useless in most all applications, a big nuisance to people and chew on everything! They do no good but harm! Fkrs!!!!!!
Earwigs act just like scorpions do. Dark,cool and moist places. I’ve never found one doing any harm to plants above ground though.
@@christopherburbidge972 Come out at night time with your torch in similar circumstances to mine and you'll see plenty scurrying away from the light.
Thanks for this! Now I think I know what ate my seedling zinnias in the middle of the night!! I planted several seeds and one morning they were completely gone!!! Will be trying this for my fall garden!
Before fighting earwigs, always check first for other pests like aphids. Earwigs, just like ants, can act as beneficials. I've seen both eat aphids.
Another colony of ants started milking the aphids on my black currant though.
Which for some reason is the only thing in my garden struggling with white flies, green and black aphids at once.
Greetings from Germany :)
Yup, totally correct!
Hey saw a clip of you on good morning America this morning! Either this morning or yesterday morning. Can’t remember they blend together these days....
Yup, I was on this AM!
Thanks for not giving earwigs a bad wrap :) as you said, they can be very helpful in pest control, they just have to be managed
Absolutely!
Thank you! I have too many earwigs so am going to try the oil trap. I might also try the rolled up paper. Going to subscribe to help your channel! Good luck and thanks again for the useful info!
nobody ever told me they could fly and i’m still traumatized by having one fly at my face
What!?!?!?!
I never knew that
Omg. How terrifying
This scares me I didn't know that 😂
Wow thank you, I just learned something. I've always loved earwigs but I never knew they had wings! 😳
So engaging! U have a real mastery of delivering dense information while maintaining engagement and interest to the content of ur dialogue ❤ as well as humble charisma
Very kind of you to say!
@@epicgardening well its genuine and thank you for your super thorough guidance im literally just barely begining my green adventure thanks to my Litas impreaaion
Well said!
I was very astonished when I realized what animals you are talking about. I have never heard from any of my fellow gardeners or experienced myself that earwigs do any damage to seedlings or plants, despite taking a bite or two out of a ripe fruit which is usually only a "cosmetic" problem. We rather try to coax them into our gardens by offering nesting places and hideouts, because they are great at pest control, maybe the european earwig is just better behaved at home than abroad ;-)
Good luck and good growth to everyone.
As with all things, it's a balancing act. None is bad, too many is bad!
Haven't had earwig issues (thank goodness!) but now we know what to do if they show up! Thank you, Kevin!
Thank you for this. I'm not a fan of earwigs, and I've noticed a few of them in the past few days. I am going to move my compost container further away from the plants per your suggestion.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video as always! Today I made an old chickpea can into a hanging planter, and I was wondering, would you be interested in doing a video based around things you can upcycle into plant containers? Sorry if there’s one similar already 🌱
Thank you, this was helpful. I use to ignore them. I didn’t know they ate the plants. Actually had no clue what they ate .
Kevin I found too much wood chips really attracts them. Thanks for your info, getting rid of my wood chips and incorporating your recommendations.
The oil and soya sauce mixture works really well. I have a problem with earwigs attacking my lettuce plants, so I planted a big pot of oil and soya sauce, it worked.
Thank you for sharing this video, I noticed the bamboo I had holding up my snowpeas was splitting from watering all season and became a home for earwigs
Last year I mixed barbq sauce and a little water in a shallow bowl. They loved the stuff. This year however they have over ran my garden and I have to do it again.
I know you posted this 3 years ago, but thanks for the tips! I suspect earwigs are munching on some of my young plants and will give these suggestions a try!
Other than the fact that I love listening to you talk, i don't know why I'm even here lmao. I live in New York city and trying to grow some basil plans and been watching every basil related video on this channel and now I'm sucked into this channel completely.
Thank you SO much. I have just moved to S California and saw one of these critters in the kitchen after bringing in a dozen lemons that fell in the yard..(I suspect that's how he came in). He didn't want to 'squish', so I put a piece of clear tape on it..so that I could look at it better to identify it. If I'm not mistaken..one of the Star Trek movies Chekov was tortured by having one put in his ear.. thus amplifying the fear of them....
just found an earwig chowing on some aphids
Epic
Dude, Although you have limited space, your garden is beautiful!
Had a real problem with these guys last summer. Under normal circumstances I love earwigs, they keep the aphids under control on my rose bushes. But last summer there were almost no aphids and they went all destructive eating all young leaves on my one and two year blueberry bushes. Diluting some brown soap in water and spraying the plants also helped without killing the plants. If it happens again this summer I'll try these methods. Thank you for sharing.
The best way to keep earwigs under control is:
Use nutshells as mulch around sunflowers. Ants tend to keep their aphids on sunflower stalks, nutshells are the best mulch for an earwig. Earwigs eat Aphids, ants eat earwigs. And so you keep everything under control without messing up your sunflowers
Fantastic tip
Any kind of nut shells? I have walnut shells will that do?
@@lovemesomepoptarts6787 well personally i only have walnut and pistachio shells.the walnut shells create bigger "airpockets" so its more likely that more earwigs will hide under that. But any nutshell should work at least a bit i suppose
Fellow San Diegan here. This is a bad earwig season. Those creeps went after my satsumas; bored right into them. What really works for me is Sluggo Plus. It's a pelleted bacteria specifically targeting earwigs, pill bugs (which do just as much damage as earwigs), slugs, and snails. I generously (ignore the instructions because it's not enough) bait my planting beds a few times before transplanting to make sure the nasties are all dead before the babies go in.
Thanks for helping me grow a greener thumb! 👍🏼🌱
Happy to help!
Thank you so much for the video.
We have major earwig problem. Went out at night and there were lot's eating our collar greens, empor 1 maple tree and flowering plum tree. Just broke my heart I have to say. Will try the newspaper trap. Thank you!
I would try the sardine one but I'm afraid it will attract neighborhood cat's.
THIS WAS SO HELPFUL. They’ve been targeting my native bee cocoons!
Every video you post lately has been the answer to a question I’ve recently had! It’s like you’re reading my mind! Lol. I had put oil traps from leftover cat food cans in my new vegetable garden and the next day one of them was empty and there were some muddy paw prints on the rim of the pot 😂 So thanks for the tip to keep the raccoons out! Do you think it would work to cut pieces of chicken wire and glue to the tops of the cans? Or I was thinking of filling an empty aluminum can with oil and burying it. Do you think the opening is big enough for an earwig?
Thanks for the consistent, great info!
Yeah that would work!
I had an issue with a massive amount of earwigs last year in my plum tree (during the day time too). It's a young tree - last year was the first time it gave a lot of plums. Managed to get 40 good plums, but lost a lot to the bugs and (I suspect from watching this year) some blackbirds and thrushes. I've tried out some sticky tape-like stuff that you wrap around the base of the tree to combat it this year. I haven't seen earwigs yet this year, but it does seems to have slowed down the ants a lot! I also pruned the tree a little before it came out of hibernation so there would be more airflow.
Yeah that Tanglefoot stuff works charms!
I needed this video last year! 😭😭😭
Great helpful video Kevin! These ugly thangs decimated my spinach & lettuce. I did the oil & soy sauce trap but I didn't see any results I'm gonna add some lemon. Thanks again 🌱🤗
You're so AWESOME. I am having a big problem with these insects. Great timing
Glad I could help!
Love this idea!! And I just saw that beer traps work for pill bugs!!
Earwigs love my compost bin. I feel bad killing them but there're so many.... ughhhh!!!! Thanks for the tips.
My siblings and I used to call them Pincher bugs.
Currently dealing with a mega load of ear wigs. Thanks for this video 😊
I had a massive rollie pollie (pill bug) problem in my potatoe raised bed and I used a glass cup to catch them all.... an 8 oz cup got filled up 2/3 of the way. These traps work like magic when the critters get out of control 👍🏿
WOW nice
What did you put into the cup to attract them?
Oh I love earwigs! They love to chill out in the sunflower seed feeder for the birds! Didn't know that they are considered a pest. I guess we don't have enough to consider them that. Since I am not a long term subscriber I am now wondering if you've covered slugs as well? Because they actually are a pest on our garden and hard to keep under control.
Oh good tip on the feeder! I haven't covered slugs yet
My boy busted out the magazine where did you get one lol thank you for the tips!
That’s good advice! That’s a great looking urban garden you have there!
Klaus
Thanks!
I had an issue with earwigs in my daughters flower box. I couldn’t grow zinnias or sunflowers without them being destroyed. I decided to put Dutch white clover seed in the box and now my zinnia and sunflowers are left alone. I guess there’s enough tender greens for them to eat now.
earwigs are great helpers to keep down infestation of other pests, especially in orchards, like the moth larve that cause worm-eaten apples.. So, instead of killing them off, check with organic orchard owners if they are interested in them. They can be easily transferred in nests of wood wool.
Had a retail nursery for 25 years. Customers always told of their earwig battles. I found a regular sheet of newspaper folded at its crease, rolled into a cone shape, twist the small end tight. Lightly mist the cone (not so much to collapse it totally) and tuck them here and there under foliage in the evening. Make up a bucket with soapy water to have ready. Usually in the morning the little critters will have take up house in the newspaper. You can leave them for a few days even. Go around in the daylight, collect the cones and dump into the soapy bucket. Fold over the big end to prevent them from bailing out on you. Earwigs and ticks...ugh!
I could watch you talk about insects all day...😍🐞🐜🌱 Thank you for the lesson. Your voice at 4:46!
I found an earwig in my cactus pot. I noticed chunks taken off and at first I assumed it was too much sun exposure until I watered it and an earwig crawled out of the soil, so I got a pair of scissors and cut it in half.
I’ll have to try these tips. Thank you. On my garden playlist to find later. 👍
Hope you enjoy later!
Hey, Kevin you should really try growing the Arabica Coffee Plant it will make coffee beans that you can use for your morning coffee!
الف شكر يا ريس 👍👍👍👍 علي المعلومات القيمة. بجد أفدتني في حل مشكلة كانت قرفاني في الزرع بتاع البلكونة.
ترجم بقي علشان تعرف أنا قولت ايه😊
All of my seedlings keep getting eaten by earwigs. In retrospect it would have been better to buy more established seedlings that won’t get totally eaten overnight. I used the oil traps they do work to trap earwigs but my plants still get eaten. I have a huge infestation and like you said they can live in the soil itself. I’m trying to make the mulchy garden soil less hospitable by mixing in the denser native clay soil so they can’t live inside the dirt. Hopefully it helps.
Thank you so much for this video, because have the right information about it's not true pest, i will try your method, now in my Backyard I'm try to remove the mosquito's larva from some rain water and worm tea
a year later this still is super helpful, thank you
I used a hummingbird feeder with hummingbird food in it, and it had a flower missing. I came out about 2 hours after setting it up on my porch railing and already had 4 dead drowned and one was just climbing in and out like as soon as he saw me he backed away!! But I think it's like honey for bees you know... works awesome!! My question is... why are there so many in and around my house this year??
Good video. I have beautiful daisies and they start blooming towards end of June through September. Every night at least two earwigs are in each bloom just hanging out. There is no damage to my blooms or foliage so I let them be. I am assuming the center of the flower is moist which they like.
I am glad you're not being unnecessarily ruthless about it and just trying to keep a rational, even-handed approach. I think a lot of people get into an "ew, bugs!" mindset and don't think about what good they accomplish, too, so it's good to see you be reasonable about them.
The information is very good you give all the time. Can you please make a video about according to Vancouver weather like rainy and short summer. If you already made that place send me the link
When we lived in Orange County we called them stink bugs they had the worst smell when stepped on. In Northern Ca. They aren’t the same smell.
In the UK it's the young earwigs that tend to go for seedlings, I've found.
Adults, do, too, but in far fewer numbers.
Thanks for the info. Appreciate
I don’t eat sardines, but I used soy sauce as the fragrant. Poured a little over vegetable oil in a shallow, covered sour cream container with holes along the side. Works really well! Slugs like it too.
In Michigan we get them in the house super bad in the summer. I never see them outside. It’s interesting to me to see you doing all of this outside. But you are in a different state.
Thank you! I am overrun by earwigs and I’ve been in this cycle of planting seeds then losing seedlings to earwigs. Just lost all of my pepper seedlings. I purchased neem oil, does this help?
Gardening in Canada is a bonus because we don’t have as many Crawly things hahah. The cold seems to end this issue pretty well 😂
So true!
I'm Canadian I still get pest
Baby Yoda I’m zone 3. I find my pests are pretty manageable and change year to year.
Happy hump day, Brother! Thanks for more of your thing.
You bet!
OMG I never thought of using those for a raised bed!
going to hardware store now.
seriously.
Great tips, thanks!
Hi Kevin, I'm a new fan and I really like your channel and the helpful information you share. Regarding Earwigs, which I hate with a passion, I had a real problem a couple of years ago with earwigs feasting our Shiso (Perilla) leaves. Last year, I solved the problem completely by smearing Vaseline around the base of the plants. Later in the season, I found some of the damned things jumped off overhanging squash plants to jump on my Shiso, but I just trimmed back other plants from above or next to the Shiso. Not sure Vaseline will work on other plants to keep the earwigs off, though....
Unrelated dumb question out of curiosity: Are you Filipino?
I had a large nest of them at my last property. I thought it was a bee hive since the yellow bumblebees kept going to that hole. Pest control poured something down the hole (I think liquid nitrogen) and they came up my the dozens. The bumblebees use them at the younger stage.
Wowowow crazy!
Hi Kevin! Do you have other videos about other types of pests?
I use berries and apples to feed them away from my plant growth. It works!
They also hide under leafs of plants especially in shaded areas.
Thanks for the tip they have decimated my dahlias. Hundreds on each plant. I was going for a few days and came back to them destroyed
I have earwigs eating plants in my greenstalk planter. Plenty of dark moist places for them to hide 😒. I will try these traps in some of the pockets they have emptied.
Thank you! I *think* I have earwigs messing with my sage but not completely sure. I live in Connecticut so I might have a different variety than you in CA? I'll have to try these.
Weird thing, tonight just walking through my house I seen that nasty bug on my floor. I do have a lot of indoor seedlings trays laying around, which I keep watering often. Then this notification of these bugs were illustrated by you!🤔 now o know what they’re called!
When I moved into this house the earwigs were numerous and everywhere. Eating on my flowers and just horrible. Then after a few years, they almost completely vanished. But for about three more years I would see one here and there. This spring I've not seen one.
Used tuna or cat food cans also work well, with canola oil mixed with cheap soy sauce. I don't even bury them, the earwigs crawl up the side. However, I have a dog now who is so food-crazy that she literally ripped apart the metal garden fence to eat the contents of all of my earwig traps (yuck), so I can't use this method anymore. (She also digs up any organic granular fertilizer). So now I dust the plants with diatomaceous earth in the evenings, which helps to some degree. Earwigs can be brutal and many seasons have mown down every one of my seedlings to the ground, time after time. They have even destroyed mature zucchini plants.
@epicgardening,
Today I have found My Dahlia plant's all the branches decimated. I put slug pellets but no sign of slugs, also I didn't see any earwig either. The soil was moist so that's mistake from my side. What could be the problem?
Have you used diatomaceous earth? I wet down my plants and apply late in the evening. I know, not good for the bee population. I just make sure I have plenty for the bees to feed on. I do all three methods👍🏻
Great information! How is the dragon fruit? It should be sprouting new growth right now. Also, I see some spots in the background for some succulents. Let me know if you want any cuttings. I have some cool ones for you.
They just want a place to live. I always leave small piles of rotting weeds and vegetation laying on the ground for them to hide under. They stay out of my garden.
I have a corn plant that’s just starting to reveal the silks. I’ve just noticed earwigs on the tops of the silks inside. Any recommendations?
I used to work for young living, so I have quite a few essential oils lying around. One of my most successful earwig repellent methods is to spray my plants with peppermint infused water every night before I go to bed.