Earwigs often times will find their way through small cracks in your foundation, through holes in bricks, or might even be carried in from the outdoors accidentally in a newspaper or packages.
Either way, once they are in, there are plenty of places for an earwig to hide. Earwigs could have entered your home for many of reasons, though in general, they entered your home because quite simply, something attracted them to it. Earwigs actually do not like to be over-saturated either. If the weather is very wet, earwigs will seek out a drier place to hide.
Earwigs love to hide. They will happily hide under clutter, rocks, tarps, wood, construction materials and just about anything else found in your yard, and the many small crawlspaces a house provides are quite welcome as well.
Check that screens are tight, that garage doors have good seals, and that outside doors have weather stripping and thresholds. Earwigs sometimes end up inside when they are carried in on items where they have been hiding such as plants, newspapers, or firewood. If they do manage to find an area of your home that is damp enough for them to survive indoors, they might scavenge on food scraps, insects, mold, or plants.
Earwigs are usually found indoors in cracks and crevices near moisture, such as in house plants, in stacked newspapers, under carpeting that gets wet, in under-sink cabinets or around baseboards in kitchens and bathrooms. If you can't get things properly fixed, consider using a caulking gun to fill in holes. Make sure your door sweeps make a good seal all the way across. It doesn't take much of a gap for earwigs to squeeze through.
Inspect your gutter system and make sure there are no clogged areas. Clean out clogs and repair any damaged areas where water escapes and runs down the outside of your home.
Moist, rotting wood is an attractant for earwigs and other moisture pests. Here at American Pest, we have the tools, the experience, and the knowledge to completely seal out earwigs and a whole host of other, more dangerous and damaging pests, from your home.
And, if you have already been invaded, we can help you with that as well. Reach out to American today. Life is just better when your home is not being invaded by pests. Our Preferred Care Plan is an affordable pest control solution for eliminating common insects that enter the home from the outside.
The heat wave at the end of June would have been good timing for them, because on P. Earwigs are unusual because they care for their young, which usually only happens with social insects. The female will make a small nest in the ground and watch over the eggs, and feed the young when they hatch.
Islanders can expect to see earwigs around until the weather starts to cool in the fall.
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