Forficula sp. - probably auricularia - the European earwig
Aug 25, 2015 18:50:05 #
The first two are immatures, taken in Virginia in May of this year. The last two are adults and were taken today in Athens, Georgia.
Aug 25, 2015 19:11:21 #
If they are the same two, they really have a strange migration pattern!
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Aug 25, 2015 19:16:08 #
Nikonian72 wrote:
Yeah, I marked them with tiny numbers and - low and behold - by happenstance that critter from Virginia just wound up in my yard! Go figure. What's even more amazing, the numbers stayed on during and after the final molt. :) :) :) :)If they are the same two, they really have a strange migration pattern!
Aug 25, 2015 19:31:46 #
gym wrote:
Always shake out your socks! :lol:Yeah, I marked them with tiny numbers and - low and behold - by happenstance that critter from Virginia just wound up in my yard! Go figure. What's even more amazing, the numbers stayed on during and after the final molt.
Aug 25, 2015 20:29:38 #
Aug 26, 2015 07:36:49 #
Earwigs are good guys in the house and garden eating our foes, so I recall.
There was an old time radio program where an earwig entered a mans ear and burrowed thru the brain at great pain... the attending doctor said to him it is now thru the brain. The man was so relieved, until the doctor told him that it would turn around and come out where it entered!!!!
Sorry, I looked hard for that program to share... I think it was Escape.
There was an old time radio program where an earwig entered a mans ear and burrowed thru the brain at great pain... the attending doctor said to him it is now thru the brain. The man was so relieved, until the doctor told him that it would turn around and come out where it entered!!!!
Sorry, I looked hard for that program to share... I think it was Escape.
Aug 26, 2015 14:50:35 #
dpullum wrote:
I recall an old show like Outer Limits or Twilight Zone of the same. Except the good news was that it had eaten all the way through, exited the other side and was gone. The bad news was that it had laid eggs :shock:There was an old time radio program where an earwig entered a mans ear and burrowed thru the brain at great pain... the attending doctor said to him it is now thru the brain. The man was so relieved, until the doctor told him that it would turn around and come out where it entered!!!!
Aug 26, 2015 15:52:17 #
Aug 26, 2015 17:58:13 #
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