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TK South Orange
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Username: Tk_south_orange
Post Number: 383
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 4:45 pm: | 
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Giant Ant/beetle thing w/ Scorpion pinchers?
Okay - anyone see one of these before? Like a really big long ant w/ what looks like a scorpion tail at the end? |
Fabulouswalls
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Username: Fabulouswalls
Post Number: 75
Registered: 10-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 4:53 pm: |
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Was it an Asian Longhorned Beetle? Not exactly what you described.
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Josh Holtz
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Username: Jholtz
Post Number: 440
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 5:02 pm: |
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Did it look anything like this?
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daylaborer
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 717
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 5:29 pm: |
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Sounds like an earwig. |
daylaborer
Citizen
Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 718
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 5:34 pm: |
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Earwig!
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cody
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Username: Cody
Post Number: 1006
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 6:11 pm: |
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Sounds like it could be a stag beetle; they are harmless to people. I occasionally find one in the garden.
Here's a link to a picture of one:
http://www.insects.org/ced2/stag.jpeg |
Boomie
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Username: Boomie
Post Number: 333
Registered: 7-2005
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 10:33 pm: |
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JOsh just made me almost spit. Im dying here. |
kevin
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Username: Kevin
Post Number: 703
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 10:35 pm: |
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earwigs are common around here.
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TK South Orange
Citizen
Username: Tk_south_orange
Post Number: 384
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 10:04 am: |
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okay - wow - i saw one the first time that looked like the stag beetle - and yup - it is an earwig. never seen one of those things before. All i knew was that the super when I first moved in said not to step on them.
Thanks guys! |
Joe R.
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Username: Ragnatela
Post Number: 447
Registered: 6-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 4:47 pm: |
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why not? |
TK South Orange
Citizen
Username: Tk_south_orange
Post Number: 387
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 3:57 pm: |
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said it would sting me- hell things are creepy looking - i believed him |
cody
Citizen
Username: Cody
Post Number: 1007
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 5:56 pm: |
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Earwigs are harmless, as far as I know. Maybe the person who told you they can sting had them confused with centipedes. They do look a bit similar, and the color is close. And centipedes can give a nasty bite (or sting, whichever it is they do). |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3328
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 8:55 pm: |
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earwigs are not harmless, obviously you have never been on the wrong end of their wrong end, when they get in your ear it hurts.
Hurts, hurts, hurts, and they can be a pain in the ••• to get out. |
daylaborer
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Username: Upondaroof
Post Number: 729
Registered: 4-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:37 pm: |
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There is an urban legend / twilight zone type story about an earwig that enters a sleeping persons body via one ear and after an excruciating month of pain due to the insects travel through the persons body, it exits through the other ear. The victim, who is finally relieved, is informed that the earwig was a pregnant female and it had given birth enroute! |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3333
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 9:48 pm: |
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aaaaaaahhhhhhhh.......
Earwig Trap
A simple trap can be made using a tuna or cat food can. Add 1/2 inch of vegetable oil and place them around the garden. Dump and refill with oil as they fill up with earwigs. Another trap involves a moistened, rolled up newspaper. Or use short pieces of bamboo or hose. Place these traps on the soil near plants just before dark. Earwigs have a preference for tight, dark places, and will crawl into the tubes and stay there. In the morning, shake the earwigs into soapy water to kill them. Continue this procedure every day until you are no longer catching earwigs.
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cody
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Username: Cody
Post Number: 1008
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 11:13 pm: |
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I've always been told that earwigs do NOT crawl into ears, nor do they burrow through human brains, regardless of all those old stories. I have heard from ER doctors that cockroaches are occasionally retrieved from inside human ears, though.
According to the Audubon Society's Field Guide to Insects, "earwigs are harmless, only occasionally damaging flower blossoms". If something that looks like that stung you, it was probably a centipede. |
Monster©
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Username: Monster
Post Number: 3339
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, May 24, 2006 - 11:20 pm: |
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Monster Wife once had a moth stuck in her ear, sure glad it wasn't me.... |
TK South Orange
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Username: Tk_south_orange
Post Number: 389
Registered: 5-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 10:45 am: |
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lol - I get tons of centipedes - creepy lil buggers - but earwigs only one or two a year... |
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