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PostT.C. 11/3/2016, 11:23 pm

This is the start of my journal on my pet earwigs. As I type this they currently are just in a glass jar... however I am doing some research as to what makes a good habitat, as well as what will be visible as well. Below is a picture of two of them!

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PostT.C. 11/6/2016, 2:32 pm

Several of the females have laid eggs and claimed a certain parts of the container as their territory. One of the females killed another one when it got too close to it's nest!

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PostT.C. 11/8/2016, 12:58 pm

I have made some modifications to the jar Smile  I made it so i didn't have to take off the jar to feed them, and now all I have to do is screw off that top cap. Which is the top of a soda bottle. When they are disturbed they lef off a fowl smell.  Some of the females have made huge tunnels into the sand to hide her eggs and keep them away from the males and the Isopods. I have the isopods to help clean the left over food. They guard the tunnel entrance with the pinchers on the end of their body.

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You can see there is two earwigs on the top leaf, one is a male the other is the female which you can tell because the males have a larger curve in them.



Still waiting on the eggs to hatch!


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PostPraxibetelix 11/15/2016, 4:43 pm

Why did you want to keep earwigs? That photo of the eggs is really interesting. I have to admit, this is a species that I do not understand, and frankly, find gross lol. We do not kill them, but we do put them out of the house if one is found. I do not even know what they eat!

Your jar enclosure is really smart.
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PostT.C. 11/15/2016, 10:12 pm

Praxibetelix wrote:Why did you want to keep earwigs? That photo of the eggs is really interesting. I have to admit, this is a species that I do not understand, and frankly, find gross lol. We do not kill them, but we do put them out of the house if one is found. I do not even know what they eat!

Your jar enclosure is really smart.

haha, actually they are super fun. They are also fairly active and all around interesting.
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PostT.C. 11/21/2016, 2:41 pm

Update: A lot more of the females have laid eggs and can be seen when looking at the bottom of the container. A few other males and some of the males just hang out at the top of the sticks. Here is some pictures I took today.

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PostPraxibetelix 11/23/2016, 3:33 pm

They are so weird! Those egg photos are really cool though, like something out of Dune.
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PostT.C. 12/28/2016, 6:07 pm

UPDATE: Well, a few of the eggs have hatched and a few small baby earwigs run around now, but to small to get a picture. However I still am not able to put them in my new habitat yet becuase some of the adults still keep laying eggs in the sand and I do not want to kill there eggs in the process. However in the mean time I will build there new habitat.
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PostPraxibetelix 12/28/2016, 7:53 pm

Would love to see pictures of the babies when they are big enough!
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PostT.C. 1/10/2017, 5:54 pm

Here is a picture of an adult and three of it's nymphs. Not the best picture. She was getting pretty upset with the light so I took the shot and put it back.

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PostT.C. 2/3/2017, 4:47 pm

UPDATE: 2/3/2017

Well It's been a while and many of those nymphs turned into adults. The container was getting a little crowded and dirty so i relocated them to a new one. Unfortunately I had to tear up their old container to get to them. A few had gone for second batches of eggs, so i had to put them in seperate tubes with their eggs. Also a few batches of nymphs were just sitting in the corner, so I had to put them in a small container by them selves as well, otherwise the other adults would eat them without having their parent to protect them. I will let them go with all the rest once the nymphs are large enough to protect themselves.

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I put food through the entrance hole. I control humidity by using a syringe full of water and squirting it through the entrance hole which runs into the sand.

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PostSalmon 2/3/2017, 8:47 pm

Praxibetelix wrote:Why did you want to keep earwigs? That photo of the eggs is really interesting. I have to admit, this is a species that I do not understand, and frankly, find gross lol. We do not kill them, but we do put them out of the house if one is found. I do not even know what they eat!

Your jar enclosure is really smart.

I find earwigs fascinating. They're incredibly adaptable omnivores (eating everything from live prey to leaves and flowers) with advanced parental care and intriguing social behavior.

I used to think of them as cockroaches with pincers, but they're really so much more than that.
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PostT.C. 2/5/2017, 10:35 am

They really are cool. I know lots of people think of them as pests, but they really are cool and interesting to watch. I think their parental care is the most amazing. I have seen some amazing things with these guys.
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PostT.C. 2/8/2017, 4:21 pm

Well I successfully moved them all into the new habitat. I fed them which I managed to get a nice short clip of how mean they can be to each other. The adults are rather territorial.

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