Their bite leaves a red, itchy spot on the skin. Their saliva is irritating to the host, causing dermatitis and hair loss in allergic animals. Earwigs were named by a superstition that the insect would crawl purposely in the ears of sleeping people. More easily recognized by it s forceps-like tail appendage, the earwig is a major garden pest, as well as an annoying household pest. It is one of the few insects that takes care of it s young.
Earwigs feed on green plants and other vegetation and do little damage indoors.
The pinch of their forceps is neither painful nor poisonous, but does an effective scare job. The tan house cricket is found in warm, damp, dark places such as shrubs, grass, basements or crawl spaces. Active mostly at night, they will eat almost anything they can chew, from rugs to drapes and they usually enter a building from harborage right outside. Pill Bugs are found in lawn turf, under leaves or other moist areas of decaying vegetable matter. Extremes of wet, dry, or hot weather drives them inside, where they do no damage but are an annoyance.