Information available in each extension office. You close your eyes, sniff that fruity, ripe aroma, and take your first juicy bite. There's nothing quite like it. An earwig peering back at you having just emerged from the apricot's stem end, its daytime siesta disturbed by your noisy slurping.
Earwigs are nobody's favorite critter.
They seem to elicit from just about everyone an uncontrollable urge to smash, stomp, grind, and cut them up. They are the insect everyone loves to hate. It is a proven fact that they can and do damage plants. Yet researchers say earwigs often do far less damage than they are blamed for, and in many cases act as important predators of other arthropods. The forceps of males are larger and more distinctly curved than those of females.