Gail Herron of California got sick of giving up her strawberry crop to earwigs, those exasperating nocturnal insects with pincers that live under rocks and containers during the day. So she decided to set a trap for them.
She cleaned out tuna and cat-food cans, filled them almost to the top with water and topped them off with a tablespoon of vegetable oil each. Then she placed these cans in an earwig-infested area.
When the critters came out in the evening, they crawled in for a swim, but couldn’t get back out because of the vegetable oil. Gail checked her traps every morning and cleaned the creatures out.
Gail says these traps helped her get a handle on the earwig problem in her strawberry bed and she also used it to eliminate the pinching pests from their lair in her mailbox.
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