Help Me! Earwigs!

Not true... if they get moisture, they come back to life -- much like sea monkeys

 

God, I thought it would be a good "congrats on the baby" gift. And all I get is finding this thread on sj.

Fine. I'll find someone ELSE to send earwigs.

 

Attracted to moisture? I'm calling bullshit ... and I don't care how many experts say it's so.

We can go weeks without the fuckers, but after the first decent rain, they'll try and migrate indoors here.

 

Yup. One good gully-washer and they're coming out of our ... um, ears. The worst part is they are nocturnal, so when my wife gets up at the asscrack of dawn, she finds them and wakes me up to kill them in my sleepy stupor.

 

Um, they get in houses, too.

The last couple of weeks, I've found 5-6 a night in my house. That's along with 1-2 nasty looking spiders per night. Cook's has been out twice this month to spray - once inside and once out. I picked up some Ortho at Lowe's and put that down around the baseboards Monday. Haven't seen an earwig since and just one small spider.