Earwigs eating my plant!
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Online there is talk of using small dishes of oil to trap them in but I’ve never caught a single one that way.
The most effective way I’ve found so far is to go in at night, which is when they all come out to devour our plants, and zap them with a light solution of dish soap and water. I don’t have an exact recipe for you but I’m sure you can find one. it doesn’t take a lot of dish soap. Mix it up in a spray bottle and go around at night spraying them wherever you find them -they will fall down and in a few seconds curl up and die
The most effective way I’ve found so far is to go in at night, which is when they all come out to devour our plants, and zap them with a light solution of dish soap and water. I don’t have an exact recipe for you but I’m sure you can find one. it doesn’t take a lot of dish soap. Mix it up in a spray bottle and go around at night spraying them wherever you find them -they will fall down and in a few seconds curl up and die
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Ive hear soya sauce and veg oil works apparently they love soya sauce, ive been spraying my plants with neem oil mixed with dawn dish soap and water ill try the dish soap and go around spraying them but i never see the fuckers, man they really fuck your leafs up i thought was a catepillar but i e never seen any in my yard
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Also dealing with a cal deficiency gave some cal mag today hope that helps what you think it looks like ? Heres pics at both my plants sour diesel and scout master first 7 pics are sour diesel next 3 are scout master and do i trim all the leafs with brown spots or do i leave them
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Yes. Calcium would be my guess but could be from plain underfeeding. Or who knows. - deficiencies aren’t really my thing.
Leave the leaves for sure. They’re being used.
The e-wigs only come out at night. Take a flashlight and zap them if you can stay up that late. Or maybe there are traps that actually work who knows.
Leave the leaves for sure. They’re being used.
The e-wigs only come out at night. Take a flashlight and zap them if you can stay up that late. Or maybe there are traps that actually work who knows.
CanadianJim
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There are traps that work. The one that we use is actually made of a couple of pieces of wood. In the morning you take the top off, knock the earwigs out onto a patio or some other flat solid surface and stomp them. I don't know why these work, but they do. These pics are from almanac.com through google.
We made our own, but you can buy them. Lee Valley used to have them, but I don't know if they still do.
We made our own, but you can buy them. Lee Valley used to have them, but I don't know if they still do.
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Thanks! Might try that i tried veg oil and soya sauce last night in a container with holes on the side with a lid and it worked soya sauce attracts them and the oil makes it so they cant get outThere are traps that work. The one that we use is actually made of a couple of pieces of wood. In the morning you take the top off, knock the earwigs out onto a patio or some other flat solid surface and stomp them. I don't know why these work, but they do. These pics are from almanac.com through google.
We made our own, but you can buy them. Lee Valley used to have them, but I don't know if they still do.
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Soya sauce and veg oil worked last night for earwigs soya sauce attracts them
Il try it. Any more info on your method?
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Method? The calcium or the earwigs? Soya sauce and veg oil worked great caught couple and the calcium thing i think its getting better hard to tell all the new leafs were coming out deformed already and brown dots all over but it does seem better though
I meant the earwigs 
. I’ll try some in an open dish or two for now. 
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Ya try that if that doesnt work try in a container they like dark places so container with lid might be better but let me know if putting open dishes out work better but heres pics of what im using i just put bought an half inch of veg oil then another half inch of soya sauce i didnt measure just said online do half and half of veg oil and soya sauceI meant the earwigs
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Heres the link i found online under where it says earwig damage everything it said is whats been happending to my leafs and where the earwig is on the leaf theres black specs everywhere just like the article says and it also has the article about the veg oil and soy sauce
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Let me know if it worked @Weaselcracker
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Hey off topic but for seedlings do you cut the tip of the leafs ? I heard it retains water/food and helps establisb roots this true ?
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Oh god no I’d not do that. Just let them grow.
As for the earwigs I didn’t have any luck with a covered dish of the soya sauce oil mix but will try some variations tonight.
As for the earwigs I didn’t have any luck with a covered dish of the soya sauce oil mix but will try some variations tonight.
B Dub
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I’ve used a shallow lid with just a small pool of beer. Every morning you have to toss out the dead drunks!
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Ya i left them and for the earwigs i just caught some the first night nothing there this morning but i didnt see any on my plants i also put vasoline around the wheels of these pot risers keeps the pots off the ground an inch so there not sitting in runoff water, the earwigs must be crawling up the wheels then up into my plants and i read they wont crawl with vasoline there so i smothered the wheels with vasoline haha so this has got to stop them crawling up now
celticlyle
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Could you possibly get an insect that will kill the earwigs? I have heard of people getting lady bugs to eat aphids etc.. Maybe a mantis would sort the problem? Just a random input ;D
And then my girlfriend finds me slathered in vaseline surrounded by dishes of soya sauce and olive oil wondering ‘how am I going to get rid of all these mantids....’
