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I have 3 box planters that have a large coral bells in the center and I had planted yellow Marigolds in them. The Earwigs had eaten them down to the nubs--good thing I grew plenty of Marigolds this year. Back to the pests that love to eat our flowers. I used the bait below. I set it out on Monday afternoon in a babyfood jar and when I returned hom at 3 on Tuesday I checked, the jar was full to within 3/4 of an inch from the top. It went in the garbage and this time I set out a specimen bottle with the bait and I caught quite a few in that. I left it for over a week and every day there was a few more. Now I have them all over my beds and they are all catching Earwigs. My neighbor puit them in hers and she's catching them too. Although she didn't have the problem I did and hers took a day or 2 to work. I replanted My Marigolds 2 days ago and so far no more damage. Give it a try ---It works!!

Bait for Earwigs Earwigs.
Equal parts of soy sauce, oil and (molasses or corn syrup). The molasses is bait to attract them--the oil doesn't allow them to crawl back out and the salt in the soy sauce finishes them off. My friend used margarine containers but it I prefer small containers because they take less room in the beds (a small yogurt container, larger pill bottle, specimen bottle or anything that is fairly deep--but not too deep) Put the bait in the container covering 1/3 of the bottom with the mixture and bury it up to the brim in the soil. Prop a lid over it so it doesn't get diluted by rain and so it is a nice dark place for them to hide--ha. When you prop the lid, leave a small space for them to crawl into the container. You might have to wait a couple of days for it to work, but as I said mine were full of them the next day. It does work. Your container will be full of them.

This is so cool! I have a hyacinth bush that seems to have them all over it, although they don't seem to be doing any damage. I will definately give this a try for a preventative measure with my sunflowers as well. I have a hunch they are starting to damage them.

Kim

I guess I didn't answer what you asked--mamashakesit. If the earwigs didn't leave any leaves on your seedlings then I don't think there is any hope for them.

They chewed on my Hollyhocks--grown from this years seed-- too but left some lacy leaves. I just noticed this morning that they are sending out new shoots from the center. So that is good.
What is not good is that a squirrel has discovered my earwig traps and is pulling them out and eating the contents. I don't know how it is not making him sick. I guess I'll have to use something that has more weight to it. He removed the lid from the one margarine container I had but I guess he couldn't get the container out of the ground.

I've been using that concoction for a couple of days now. It is catching quite a few of them. It looks like they left some of the tiniest of tiny little leaves, so hopefully a couple of them will come back.

Thanks!