Simple Trap to Effectively Eliminate Earwigs in your Garden

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Are earwigs destroying your garden? This simple, inexpensive trap will quickly get them under control without using dangerous chemicals or breaking the bank. Check out TheProvidentPrepper.org for other great ideas to become more self-reliant.
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@TheProvidentPrepper Жыл бұрын

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@00BeesKnees00 2 ай бұрын

Those spare soy sauce packets from Chinese takeout sure come in handy!

@urpolonius Жыл бұрын

I have done this for years and it works. But I don't strain them, I just use single serving yogurt containers (no lid, no holes) and throw them away when full of earwigs. Thanks for all your ideas.

@mscatnipper2359 Жыл бұрын

A very old practice is to place rolled up newspapers, secured closed, around the garden at night. In the morning, shake out the hiding earwigs into a pail containing soapy water.

@jamesdonahue4084 3 ай бұрын

What's a newspaper?

@mscatnipper2359 3 ай бұрын

@@jamesdonahue4084 Ha, ha! As I said, it was a VERY OLD practice.

@Lizzy_333 29 күн бұрын

@@jamesdonahue4084😂

@MsPersimmons 15 күн бұрын

I've read an old hose can be cut for this purpose, too.

@yarnprepper Жыл бұрын

I have to tell you a story @TheProvidentPrepper . One year my husband was trimming our privacy hedge. There was a maple tree growing in the hedge, so he laid on the ground on his side with a saw to saw it out. When he stood up he said he could feel something in his ear. I ran and got a tweezer because I could not see anything. I was blindly going in his ear with the tweezer. On the third time pulling it out, there was a big earwig in the tweezers. I screamed and dropped it all. It must have been living in the privacy hedge. He has never laid on ground again!

@MyLove-uj8zi 2 ай бұрын

Cotton in the ear as a prevention.

@lisalebeau2684 22 күн бұрын

I think i had the samething happen. We had earwigs, one day felt an itch in my ear. Scratched it and found bug legs on my finger. Over the next year I Used ear cleaning wash and tools suction balls. Id think it was gone and it kept feeling blocked. Ive been to urgent care to unplug it till i can can gwt to an ear doctor. Im on a waiting list. I still dont know what is going on. These things are not harmless. They call tgem earwigs for a reason.

@lorihuttner1703 Жыл бұрын

This is such a timely video as my garden is suffering from earwigs right now too. I cannot wait to give it a try! I am not sure if I can handle the “straining” them part though! YUCK!

@michaelobrien4644 Жыл бұрын

Hi i have used a similar trap for years but just used old cooking oil out of the deep fryer works like magic .

@Lizzy_333 29 күн бұрын

But then animals could get into them and wreck the world whole process 😅

@victoriarandazzo2462 Жыл бұрын

I needed this just now. I planted Swiss chard because I like to put it in my morning smoothies. There are earwigs are just decimating my plants.! Thank you so much for sharing this!

@oceangolf3076 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! My earwigs are way out of control. I was going to use diatomaceous earth but knew that it would kill worms and other beneficial little guys. I didn’t know what else to use. This is perfect timing. They’re even coming in the house now! Going to try this tomorrow!!!

@jamesdonahue4084 3 ай бұрын

I had one in my hair last week after just 1 warm,humid day. They Gross me out.

@shannanknight6485 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much to you guys and your commenters for all the great ideas. This is the first I've seen the earwigs for several years. Ants are a constant 😅. God bless you all.

@philwood8936 11 ай бұрын

I’m definitely going to do this as the earwigs are booming this year and eaten a lot of my bell peppers and things and they seem to like a dip in my pool lol so thanks for the video 😊

@kathyengland3534 22 күн бұрын

My daughter has great success using beer to trap earwigs and roly polys. I just bought some to try in my garden. I wish i had seen your video before i bought it as i have the oil and soy sauce already on hand.

@DawnaRo Жыл бұрын

Chickens! BUT you need to use Bantams. They don't scratch as much and since they are small they don't trample the garden. I got them for grasshoppers and other insects, but I' sure they would LOVE earwigs too.

@marianneb.7112 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, Jonathan and Kylene!

@philw7174 Жыл бұрын

Wow, that's great to know. Thank you Jonathan and Kylene for sharing this video. Happy trails!

@michellecarriere3318 Жыл бұрын

Lemon dish soap and water in a spray bottle… the die instantly. But I web trying your method in the garden. ☀️

@Merlin.Twiggles Ай бұрын

This is exactly what i was looking for, thanks

@aquarungirl5167 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this idea. This is the first year I see earwigs and it’s everywhere. This year has been particularly wet (raining so much and frequently).

@509Smoker Жыл бұрын

I use this trick as a supplement to feed my chickens. I change the recipe a little because I dont want to feed them that much sodium. Earwigs are nocturnal and chickens are not and there are to many stray cats around to let my chickens run around 9,000 sq ft unproctected.

@dellcooper2796 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this very timely tip! I'm going to try it right away!!

@beahappy1today Жыл бұрын

I didn’t think to use a hole puncher for the containers. Great idea! I also didn’t know you could add water to the solution so that’s great to know. I think the weather has really made the earwigs more of a problem. I heard they like wet areas, so it would make sense they have thrived with the unusual weather.

@marygallagher3428 Жыл бұрын

Great job Jonathan!

@eglyshernandezgarcia404 Жыл бұрын

Thank you I’ll do this weekend 😊 I have a massive in my yard eating and killing everything including roses sad 😢

@annakovatch8966 11 ай бұрын

Thank you! Great idea!

@dragonlady8961 Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@rajaechaouir5880 3 ай бұрын

It worked. Thank you 😊

@rajaechaouir5880 3 ай бұрын

Thank you, hope it will work with me too

@Highland-Lass 2 күн бұрын

The one beastie that freaks me out, being nipped a few times when little. Here in Scotland we call them Forky Tails, Gollichers or Gollichs. The have wings and can and do fly. Gardeners put straw in an upturned plant pot put on a cane, they crawl in through the night, dispose of next day, set the little buggers on fire.😮

@denisemiller8474 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for the good info

@roxanneonthemove4187 Жыл бұрын

This is great! I am going to try this. For some reason the earwigs love hanging out in my artichokes, drives me crazy! I have to soak the choke’s buds in water to flush them out.

@cabinfevernanna5897 Жыл бұрын

Swiss Chard is one of my favorite too.

@juliehall2343 Жыл бұрын

I don't have earwigs but Nats were running us out of the house. I started putting acv and dish soap in a container and it fills up with nats

@denisemiller8474 2 ай бұрын

This is awesome

@MsPersimmons 15 күн бұрын

I use the method discussed here and then strain and feed them to my chickens! They freak out and eat them all. Olive oil and soy sauce marinated earwigs, yum! Olive oil is hood for chii, snd its better than throwing the earwigs in the trash or dumping them out somewhere. Plus chicken treats get expensive. And at night I go out with my headlamp, dust buster and bucket of oily water. I wither shake them into the bucket off the larger plants or use the dust buster for smaller ones. During the day I put out seed starting trays with soil in them and water them to keep it wet. Then i move the trays and quickly vacuum them up. They go straight to the chicken coop for snack time. They do a lot of damage to my garden but its better this year. For 2 years i could not figure out why my seeds were not sprouting till I went out one night and saw it all happening. To everyone dealing with this issue I feel your pain and you are not alone in this fight 😂.

@DebbieAndrews3435 Жыл бұрын

Very creative

@allthegrassisgreen 14 күн бұрын

Thank God for this video, went to pick up a table in the family van and realised the table was an earwig summer camp.. hopefully this will lure them out!

@TheProvidentPrepper 9 күн бұрын

That's awful!

@elecaire9094 Ай бұрын

I love this! We have a problem inside in the basement and the lidded containers on top of non-toxic ingredients means our great dane is safe.

@cindywilliams3542 Ай бұрын

Thanks fro western Colorado😊

@CL-dv2kp 29 күн бұрын

Very good way! I love your idea, it works

@fayekeller7411 Жыл бұрын

Our chicken love the earwigs even with the oil and soy sauce.

@jeffmosier3145 Ай бұрын

It's hard to assess a chicken for the shits when they have runny poop naturally or do blood pressure checks due to increased sodium intake from the soy sauce.😲

@denisehitchens1418 Жыл бұрын

Cool.... I will do that. Have u hot any tricks for white fly....those tiny ones

@aolsweetsew Ай бұрын

thank you! I must have had a dozen or so earwigs in a hummingbird feeder I just replenished. Yucky!

@verdexj160 Жыл бұрын

It's chicken feed.

@laurim9833 Жыл бұрын

Can you feed it to the chickens if the bugs r covered in oil? I’m hoping yes.

@rubenaraujo319 Жыл бұрын

I use empty cans of tuna fill with beer, yes beer. There an ingredient that attracts them. It work.😊

@MysticFiddler1 21 күн бұрын

This concoction really works! This is the first year I tried it and was horrified and astounded at how many were trapped. Additionally, huge cockroaches (that I didn't even know I had) were in there with them. After a few days, not many more were trapped, which I hope means they're gone. I'm keeping some traps out there, though, just in case.

@neerukamboj4355 5 ай бұрын

Does sprinkling neem leaf powder on the soil works?

@brittanyhargraves5382 11 ай бұрын

How do you control squash bug plagues? 😮🤯🤯

@denisemiller8474 2 ай бұрын

They are thick this year because of the moisture because of rain

@kimhebble4468 Ай бұрын

We have them in our house yuck !! I didn’t think they bit until tonight one was biting the heck out of the top of my foot! Was waiting on my husband to take care of this but I am going to do it now!!! Sure hope this works!!!

@fabricdragon Жыл бұрын

you can also use leftover sardine oil i hear...

@nicoleshupe2313 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@XpressEdits305 8 ай бұрын

What if they are inside my home? Do you think I can use it?

@user-uq6bz1ri8j 6 ай бұрын

How do you make this idea work IN the home? We don't even have a garden. It's an apartment complex, so placing anything outside our door in the soil is forbidden and would be attacked by the sprinklers anyway. Our only option for traps is inside beside doors, but they couldn't be buried, so the dish would have to be shallow enough for the earwigs to crawl in. Would just the lid of a container be sufficient to prevent them from wriggling back out?

@thechach2491 27 күн бұрын

What type of oil?!

@RyanMercer Жыл бұрын

Ugh earwigs and silverfish creep me out so much.

@janetsandham7058 Жыл бұрын

I put beer down for slugs ,went out next day , Dishes of beer full of earwigs ,so now i leave beer out No earwigs

@caogomi Ай бұрын

does cheap beer work, or what kind of beer did you use?

@janetsandham7058 Ай бұрын

@@caogomi any beer , But has be beer It attracts Slugs ,earwigs ect They go to it Drink ,fall in and drown I put several dishes ,tubs ect Here there and every where Good luck

@ProudJew348 3 ай бұрын

I've been catching them in my hummingbird feeders---sugar water.

@LC.1990 24 күн бұрын

We are using "LIQUID AMINOS" and vegetable oil. The liquid aminos is even more fragrant than soy sauce and really attracts them!!! Highly recommend!

@lizadivine3785 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this because by me they are making an army! Next can you help me to safely get rid of ants in my yard??? They are killing my lawn!

@mikewood3203 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the move to Rumble

@julezee6500 Жыл бұрын

You two are amazing! My pest problem is grasshoppers, they totally ruin my Swiss chard and others. They take over and after working so hard to build a garden their damage is discouraging. It’s hard work maintaining a garden with our increasing heat. I can’t do pesticides either, I don’t really believe the "organics" at the grocery store are truly pesticide free, at least not all of them. Kylene you Rock! Jonathan, what a guy!! Thank you both! If you know a good grasshopper repellant let me know, thanks!😊

@recess7018 Жыл бұрын

Keep an eye out for Nolo bait. Right now, it is not in production for this current year. Apparently there are some issues they are working out. In the past we have purchased ours at IFA (farm store). It has worked amazingly well for us. It has a very short shelf life, so you can't save it from year to year. It targets grasshoppers and mormon crickets. It is a biologic control that contains naturally occurring Nosema locustae spores. These spores are uniformly applied to flaky wheat bran at a rate of at least 1 billion spores per pound of bran. The bran is consumed by the grasshoppers and they become infected with the spores. Young grasshoppers that consume the bait will die more quickly than older stages. As Nosema locustae builds up in the gut of heavily infected grasshoppers the insects become lethargic and reduce their feeding. Infected grasshoppers are seen by healthy grasshoppers as additional food sources and are cannibalized. This natural behavior further spreads Nosema locustae throughout the grasshopper population. Additionally, infected females can pass the spores through the egg-laying process. The progression and persistence of this organism provides long-term benefit to the landowner without environmental damage.

@rethastrom7391 Жыл бұрын

I had grasshopper as well so I made a little grasshopper cocktail of garlic and jalapeños I blended with water. I let it sit for about an hour, then strained and sprayed the watery part of the cocktail in the early evening to decrease damage to beneficials. It seems to be working well enough that I’m not seeing any more grasshoppers but I’ll continue to spray every few days during summer Hope this works for you too! The garlic and jalapeños came from my garden so very economical

@DawnaRo Жыл бұрын

@@recess7018 For grasshoppers: I garden in raised boxes but this would likely work in ground too. I use bug netting that I get on Amazon. You have to remove it when things blossom for pollinators to do their work. Last year the grasshoppers descimated my raspberries just as they were about to be ripe enough to pick. Then they started on the leaves and stripped my plants. This year I used the netting and I just had my first bowl of raspberries yesterday. About 8 hoppers managed to get in, but they didn't even begin to do the damage I had last year. I have chickens and they help, but living by large tracts of farm land has the chickens badly outnumbered. The bug netting is GREAT! You will need to anchor them down so the hoppers don't crawn under. I used metal T posts that I wasn't using for anything else and just laid them on the netting around my patch (which as I said are in raised beds).

@twinkles5569 Жыл бұрын

My Grandmother would sprinkle flour around an on leaves to kill grass hoppers, they cant digest it an die, i use my chickens to keep them at bay, an i use flour around my leafy greens.

@julezee6500 Жыл бұрын

Wow great ideas thank you!

@sullyh4040 2 ай бұрын

please tell me you don't use that strainer for anything else! Thanks for the video. Going to try this

@TamiVroma1 Ай бұрын

I make fly traps for the horses and used our home strainer....i just bleach it out. LOL But it is gross but take extra percautions. My husband keeps saying he is going to get another at dollar store but never does.

@Playstation_reviver Жыл бұрын

I use borax and sugar for ants add water to make it liquid and put it in a container with small holes for entry just bury it halfway in the garden and tadaaa the dry version is longer but more effective as the ant can bring it down the nest the dry version is the same thing but you have to let it dry and make powder

@TheProvidentPrepper Жыл бұрын

I hadn't thought about mixing the borax with sugar. I use borax too. I'm going to have to try this!

@mscatnipper2359 Жыл бұрын

Instead of soy sauce, you can use a small amount of bacon grease. Not sure whether cats would be attracted to that, though.

@twinkles5569 Жыл бұрын

I use tin cans an fill 1/3 full of beer, then bury them to top of can, works great.

@jamesdonahue4084 3 ай бұрын

Good for slugs,too.

@lisalebeau2684 22 күн бұрын

Can you use brandy or wine instead of soysauce instead to attract and be a hospice bug drug?😁

@kb6lcw99 Жыл бұрын

😊

@hermananilda3835 14 күн бұрын

👍🏻👍🏻

@Shivaliwadhwa 24 күн бұрын

Hello, I am finding tons of earwigs lately inside house as well. Do you think this will work inside too?

@TheProvidentPrepper 23 күн бұрын

It is worth a try. They climb into the dog's dishes on the patio so I think it just might.

@bittehiereinfugen7723 Жыл бұрын

Get some chickens and let them roam free in your yard, they would take great care of the earwigs. Luckily we don't have so many earwigs that they would be a problem, rather they help me to keep other insect pests under control, so I specifically attract them with flowerpots full of hay that I have spread all over the garden.

@GetReadyPrepping Жыл бұрын

This might be a stupid question but can you then feed the wet oily earwigs to chickens?

@TheProvidentPrepper Жыл бұрын

I don't see why not. They eat oil, water and soy sauce ... and bugs :)

@GetReadyPrepping Жыл бұрын

@@TheProvidentPrepper awesome! Turning a problem into a resource is the best outcome

@OldSoulKare 24 күн бұрын

What happens when it rains with the holes in the top of the containers?

@TheProvidentPrepper 23 күн бұрын

It dilutes it a bit but we haven't had much of an issue with that.

@jfsttp 26 күн бұрын

I have done this for, and it works. Until last year. Those traps attract raccoons and skunks. They love the liquid mix. I kept finding my traps in the neighbour's yard, all chewed up.

@TheProvidentPrepper 23 күн бұрын

Dang!

@GunClingingPalin Ай бұрын

wow.. my chickens would love to eat that pile of earwigs.. imma do that.. Earwigs mowed down my tobacco seedlings.. they all get to become chicken treats.