Common diet items include crickets, locusts, beetles, earwigs, cicadas, ant lions, bugs and ants.
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Like most other earwigs, the females care for their young during development, and the larva go through five instars before becoming adults.
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Like most earwigs, they are omnivores, and their diet consists of the larvae of leaf-mining insects, as well as certain types of vegetation.
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The abdomen of theearwigis flexible and muscular.
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Earwigs are among the few non-social insect species that show maternal care.
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Black earwigs are active at all times of the day, and prefer wet habitats.
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Interaction with earwigs at this time results in a defensive free-fall to the ground followed by a scramble to a nearby cleft or crevice.
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Multipurpose insecticides for control of earwigs, grasshoppers, sowbugs and other insects are more common.
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Earwigs readily consume corn (maize) silk and can damage the crop.
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Scientists believe that maritime earwigs practice this behavior in order to make their clutch maintain the size that best optimizes their investment.
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They have a lighter color than most other earwigs, which are usually brown, lending to their name, the tawnyearwig.
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In species of winged earwigs, the wings will start to develop at this time.
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Few earwigs survive winter outdoors in cold climates.
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Earwigs live for about a year from hatching.
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The resemblance of its cerci to those of theearwiggive the damselfly its common name.
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