People say this does not happen but I personally have had a ear wig in my ear .
It got caught up in some ear wax and died. My ear then became impacted and I thought I was deaf for a few months until the doctor pulled out a nasty ball of wax with an earwig incased in it.
Tbf, I was a savage child that chose to sleep in a tent
My fondest memory of an earwig was when one was on a chair my wife decided to sit on wearing short shorts (she didn’t see it). It bit her. She jumped up and hollered “Fucker!!!!!! Bit me!!!!!” While aggressively pointing at it. Good times.
My sister had one of those clear landline phones that had the multicolor guts in it. Well, one day it was just full of like 100 of those little bastards.
I had one crawl in my ear and it must have either tried to burrow or it bit my ear drum because it sounded like loud bass and I was in excruciating pain until the emergency room docs could flood it out of my ear with a solution. Do not recommend.
I had an impacted ear once and anything with bass sounded 10 times louder and hurt my ear like hell until I finally went to the doctor and got it flushed out with water.
Ew nasty. My dad forced me to play sports and one day a flying any flew into my ear and I could feel it. My dumb sister was like, oh it's just sucking blood poor thing. Wtf
Yeah same. I've woken up to an earwig (and also in another incident, a flying ant) crawling up my ear. In hindsight it probably wasn't the best idea to run straight to the sink and drown my ear in water, but luckily it got the job done (on both occasions) and they went out with the water rather than burying themselves further in. Waking up to that sound is something I rather not experience ever again for the rest of my life.
When I was a kid one of those things fell out of a tree and landed on my ear like it was a member of seal team lol. I’m sure it just was chance but freaked me out when I was told they go in your ear on purpose
Take a plate, take a newspaper, wet the newspaper and roll it up, place it on the plate and put it somewhere dark.
Earwigs will crawl inside it and you can throw em out.
Earwigs are very curious and prone to explore that's why they crawl everywhere, including on your face.
As someone with a blood thirsty outside cat and a house in the country I know this isn’t true.
Unless the mouse corpses that my cat keeps leaving on my deck is keeping all the mice in….
I think they can live in the drain pipes. If we don't run the sink disposal for a moment before we start the dish washer it'll back up a bit anyway... means to me there's a connection they can probably walk through when not clogged.
Same bro. Went on vacation for 2 weeks, came back, opened up one of those 'forever cold' cups.. not a Stanley but that other brand I forget the name, mf was just in the bottom chillin. I was GONE FOR TWO WEEKS. I was just gonna fill it and go about my business, super lucky I looked into the cup before filling.
I hate closing our chicken coop at night cause of this, cause they will just drop off the outside walls, gate, and the roof of the covered chicken run we have and land on top of me when I go by or interact with anything out there. Gotta go out there with a flashlight and kick the walls and gate so they fall off before I actually go inside.
I already have an irrational hatred of those things, and now they are trying to fall onto me? Hell no.
Oh they do get eaten during the day when the chickens are outside. Just these little fuckers climb up the wooden walls, fencing/mesh, and anything else outside at night and will just sit and hangout all over the place. There's dozens to hundreds of them all over, and any sort of mild disturbance causes them to let go of whatever they are sitting on and fall down
They're really bad this year... and every year going forward thanks to climate change.
(I don't actually know if this is true, but it makes sense given their love of humidity, and at this point I just blame everything bad in the natural world on climate change because it's always a safe bet now)
Yeah, if I had a nickel for every time I've heard of someone trying to accidentally eat/drink an earwig in the past two weeks, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's a heck of a lot more nickels than I would have any other time of year
The 6 or so I’ve found in my house in the past 3 weeks have been in the same spot, right under the bright led hallway light, struggling to get through the carpet.
I’ll try the damp newspaper trick someone mentioned.
Same! I'm catching at *least* 5 a day inside. I water the flower pots on my porch, 10 of them scatter. I open my grill, 20 of them scatter. They're in my birdfeeders, they're in my garden hose, they're eating my pepper and tomato plants. I've never seen them nearly as much as this year.
I’ve killed over 100 of these little shits in my house so far this year. Definitely the worst year so far for them. Make sure you shake your clothes/towels out before using them and check under your pillows or blankets. Only the real big male ones can actually pinch you where it hurts.
A house I used to live at had them really bad. I decided to poison fog the garage and when I checked on it later, the entire floor was covered in hundreds of dead earwigs. You couldn't take a step without the floor going crunch lol.
Found one in my tea town I use for dishes but oh man now I gotta check everywhere?!
Why do you give me such paranoia, I'm already checking cups because everyone seems to be drinking them 🥲
My wife and I had a moment of panic last night when she settled down for the night. Our bedroom window must have a hole in the screen and she came out panicking about earwigs being everywhere. Lo and behold, upon turning on the lights we have probably 20-30 all over the walls, cat tree, desk, floor, and window blinds.
The real kicker is I was coming down from a modest shroom high at the time. Earwigs seem awful this year.
Same here! They got under siran wrapped brownies on the counter, saw two in the morning and realized my bf was eating them the night before in the dark. Lol.
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I almost just joined your ranks.
I hate them! I had them so bad when I first moved into my place. I take peppermint oil and stick it on cotton balls and put them in two corners of every room and under my bed keeps spiders and bugs away
I had an apartment once where every day I came home after work I had to spend the first 20 minutes or so just going around everywhere killing literally dozens of 'em, on the walls, in the sink, in the bathtub, around my bed... we moved not long after but that was one of the worst 3-4 months of my life and I hate those things with a burning passion now.
Let the house centipedes cook. This is why I let those creepy house centipedes live so they can rid the earwigs. I don’t have earwigs but I do see house centipedes once in a while…As gnarly as they look, they want to avoid you much as possible unlike these things…
This thread is almost making me feel better about our current situation. We've had a whole lot of rain in recent weeks and it's been driving these little assholes inside in greater numbers than I've seen in previous years, but it's still not as bad as some that I'm reading in the comments. It's making me feel almost lucky that we've *only* had to kill a couple a day for the last month or so
About 10 years ago I was driving and my baby was in the back in his car seat. Suddenly he screamed this blood curling scream so I pulled over and swung open his door. One of these fuckers pinched him under the EYE and was just hanging there! So scary ugh
I just had one of these fuckers inside of my electric toothbrush. Thankfully as I wet it, I saw the dreaded tail come out of the hole on the brush head. It was disgusting!!!!!?
These guys have been finding their way inside this year in greater numbers than ever before. Most of the time I'd see a few outside under plant pots or something but they're wandering indoors this year.
These and centipedes have been in my house for the first time ever this year. I couldn’t sleep the other night because I kept picturing a centipede crawling into my mouth and down my throat… if that happened, I think I would actually die on the spot
Same thing happened to me yesterday, it was in my drink. Startled the shit out of me . Dropped my phone and cracked the screen. Fuck those ear wigs man.
Eww where do u all
Live to see all the earwigs u r all
Chewing on and spitting out ekk I feel for u all…I live in Canada I haven’t ever seen one yikes and hope to never see one lol js ew
Wtf. U just unlocked childhood memories of these little bastards terrorizing my outdoor playhouse. We called them “pinchers”. I truly have no idea if they actually pinch but those claws appears as tho they could do some serious pinching.
I was doing maintenance on my cat's ceramic fountain, cleaning and changing the filter and one of them suddenly appeared on my hand 😭
I'm aware they're harmless, but it was nasty. Guess my cat got to enjoy protein water I guess
Better than in your ear. Ha ha ha.
Wig
Ven vil yu ver vigs?
Um i dunno maybe?
I vil ver vigs ven vigs are verth vering.
you just barely beat me to it
People say this does not happen but I personally have had a ear wig in my ear . It got caught up in some ear wax and died. My ear then became impacted and I thought I was deaf for a few months until the doctor pulled out a nasty ball of wax with an earwig incased in it. Tbf, I was a savage child that chose to sleep in a tent
My fondest memory of an earwig was when one was on a chair my wife decided to sit on wearing short shorts (she didn’t see it). It bit her. She jumped up and hollered “Fucker!!!!!! Bit me!!!!!” While aggressively pointing at it. Good times.
My sister had one of those clear landline phones that had the multicolor guts in it. Well, one day it was just full of like 100 of those little bastards.
I’m sorry…what???!
Ok not 100 but definitely 20. Her room was in the basement
Just imagine how many are crawling around inside our phones rn and we don't even know
They could be anywhere.
Noooo
I had one crawl in my ear and it must have either tried to burrow or it bit my ear drum because it sounded like loud bass and I was in excruciating pain until the emergency room docs could flood it out of my ear with a solution. Do not recommend.
I had an impacted ear once and anything with bass sounded 10 times louder and hurt my ear like hell until I finally went to the doctor and got it flushed out with water.
Ew nasty. My dad forced me to play sports and one day a flying any flew into my ear and I could feel it. My dumb sister was like, oh it's just sucking blood poor thing. Wtf
Yeah same. I've woken up to an earwig (and also in another incident, a flying ant) crawling up my ear. In hindsight it probably wasn't the best idea to run straight to the sink and drown my ear in water, but luckily it got the job done (on both occasions) and they went out with the water rather than burying themselves further in. Waking up to that sound is something I rather not experience ever again for the rest of my life.
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When I was a kid one of those things fell out of a tree and landed on my ear like it was a member of seal team lol. I’m sure it just was chance but freaked me out when I was told they go in your ear on purpose
Are you that kid from Duluth, MN that slept in a tent for like... 1000 nights straight?
“Keptin ! They put creatures in our bodies !”
These are...pets, of course. Not quite...domesticated.
Or in your wig
Or in your ass 🍑
They're fucking everywhere
They have invaded my house it’s getting too much
Take a plate, take a newspaper, wet the newspaper and roll it up, place it on the plate and put it somewhere dark. Earwigs will crawl inside it and you can throw em out. Earwigs are very curious and prone to explore that's why they crawl everywhere, including on your face.
Or... kill them. Putting earwigs outside of your house is about as effective as it is with mice
Or block them on tindr
And report them to Reddit admins
As someone with a blood thirsty outside cat and a house in the country I know this isn’t true. Unless the mouse corpses that my cat keeps leaving on my deck is keeping all the mice in….
They are super bad this year. Buy some diatomaceous earth powder. It helps but it won’t completely wipe them out.
I've never seen any in or outside of my house until this year with all the rain.
We started seeing them inside the house like 3 years ago with it being worse every year. Before that I’ve only ever seen them outside.
And they dont pay any rent either!
Soy sauce and oil in a container, 50/50. The sauce attracts them, the oil traps them.
Motor oil or cooking oil?
cooking, sorry for not being specific.
Right? I feel like I’ve seen sooooo many this year.
My wife found one in my kids sippy cup. That was in the dishwasher. After a wash. IT WAS ALIVE.
I think they can live in the drain pipes. If we don't run the sink disposal for a moment before we start the dish washer it'll back up a bit anyway... means to me there's a connection they can probably walk through when not clogged.
Same bro. Went on vacation for 2 weeks, came back, opened up one of those 'forever cold' cups.. not a Stanley but that other brand I forget the name, mf was just in the bottom chillin. I was GONE FOR TWO WEEKS. I was just gonna fill it and go about my business, super lucky I looked into the cup before filling.
Hydroflask? And fuck that incredibly patient, immortal lil bugger.
I had to Google it. Yeti! Little mf crawler into my yeti
Oh… I am never filling my cup without looking again. Thanks ( yes, thanks in a GOOD way.)
NO! Noooooooo!
I hate closing our chicken coop at night cause of this, cause they will just drop off the outside walls, gate, and the roof of the covered chicken run we have and land on top of me when I go by or interact with anything out there. Gotta go out there with a flashlight and kick the walls and gate so they fall off before I actually go inside. I already have an irrational hatred of those things, and now they are trying to fall onto me? Hell no.
Your chickens don't eat them?
Oh they do get eaten during the day when the chickens are outside. Just these little fuckers climb up the wooden walls, fencing/mesh, and anything else outside at night and will just sit and hangout all over the place. There's dozens to hundreds of them all over, and any sort of mild disturbance causes them to let go of whatever they are sitting on and fall down
You are describing my literal worst nightmare
I came to the comments to maybe learn something about them, because they are all over the outside of my house. Better than inside, I guess
Where is everywhere because I have no clue what these are and I'd like to keep it that way
Northern states
And they can fly!!!
Shut you filthy mouth. Are you serious!?
Yeah but you don’t have to wig out about it..
I ear what you're saying.
It's more of a hop than flying
i feel like im seeing so many people eating earwigs on reddit recently whats going on lmao
they’re really bad this year, but i agree; i’ve seen probably three separate mouthwig posts in the last week
Mouthwig. 😂🤣😅
They're really bad this year... and every year going forward thanks to climate change. (I don't actually know if this is true, but it makes sense given their love of humidity, and at this point I just blame everything bad in the natural world on climate change because it's always a safe bet now)
I googled it. The wetter the winter and spring, the more earwigs you'll see in summer. Obviously, precipitation can be influenced by climate change.
Yeah, if I had a nickel for every time I've heard of someone trying to accidentally eat/drink an earwig in the past two weeks, I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's a heck of a lot more nickels than I would have any other time of year
Happened to me last year. Fucker came out of nowhere, must’ve fell from the ceiling into my rum and coke. Was covering my drinks for 6 months.
One was in my water bottle straw spout last week, which I found out as I was getting a sip. I'm having a hard time using my water bottle now...
Male earwig. They're harmless, they just like to hide in small dark spots.
The 6 or so I’ve found in my house in the past 3 weeks have been in the same spot, right under the bright led hallway light, struggling to get through the carpet. I’ll try the damp newspaper trick someone mentioned.
They're kind of dumb too. Get stuck and can't get out
I found one in my bedsheets when I was unrolling them to put onto my bed. It was a very uncomfortable sleep that night
Yep, every itch your mind will go “AHHH BUG; RUN” even if it’s just the blanket touching you.
Especially when it rains, I hate when they crawl into the mailbox.
How do you know if its male or female??
the "pincers" are curved if its male and more straight if its female
Harmless? they bite sharply
Fun fact! Migraines are caused by these guys burrowing into your brain through your ears at night!
Bug facts are not fun
Time to rewatch Wrath of Khan
Thank god I’ve got a BIG mouth.
Are you the coffee guy?
Beware the antlers
😁
We used to call them pincher bugs growing up. Did everyone?
We called them earwigs. Or earwiggles or even igglywigs if you prefer.
I could def get down with some igglywigs.
I did, didn’t know earwigs were the same thing until I was in my 20s
We called them "corta pichas" in Spanish. Something kinda like "wiener cutter".
Dem dare ess 'earwigs' in mah neck o da swamp!
Yes we called them pinch bugs long ago. But they kept to themselves back then.
These are taking over my house this year unlike another year in my life
Same! I'm catching at *least* 5 a day inside. I water the flower pots on my porch, 10 of them scatter. I open my grill, 20 of them scatter. They're in my birdfeeders, they're in my garden hose, they're eating my pepper and tomato plants. I've never seen them nearly as much as this year.
I’ve killed over 100 of these little shits in my house so far this year. Definitely the worst year so far for them. Make sure you shake your clothes/towels out before using them and check under your pillows or blankets. Only the real big male ones can actually pinch you where it hurts.
A house I used to live at had them really bad. I decided to poison fog the garage and when I checked on it later, the entire floor was covered in hundreds of dead earwigs. You couldn't take a step without the floor going crunch lol.
Found one in my tea town I use for dishes but oh man now I gotta check everywhere?! Why do you give me such paranoia, I'm already checking cups because everyone seems to be drinking them 🥲
My wife and I had a moment of panic last night when she settled down for the night. Our bedroom window must have a hole in the screen and she came out panicking about earwigs being everywhere. Lo and behold, upon turning on the lights we have probably 20-30 all over the walls, cat tree, desk, floor, and window blinds. The real kicker is I was coming down from a modest shroom high at the time. Earwigs seem awful this year.
time to bust out the shop vac
Or flamethrower
Oh sis I would simply perish
bitch that happened to me last year and i’ve not been the same since
One got into my inhaler before. Partially inhaled then mouth then horror horror horror.
I just did this last week. Caught it in the back of my mouth. Spit it in the sink and wanted to die.
I’ve seen these *everywhere* this year. Usually I see them scattered here and there, but I’m getting these guys like ants!
Same here! They got under siran wrapped brownies on the counter, saw two in the morning and realized my bf was eating them the night before in the dark. Lol.
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No kink shaming!!!
Extra protein
Looking forward to seeing which superhero costume to go with... "Earwig Man! Earwig Man! Does whatever an earwig can!"
I hate them! I had them so bad when I first moved into my place. I take peppermint oil and stick it on cotton balls and put them in two corners of every room and under my bed keeps spiders and bugs away
I had an apartment once where every day I came home after work I had to spend the first 20 minutes or so just going around everywhere killing literally dozens of 'em, on the walls, in the sink, in the bathtub, around my bed... we moved not long after but that was one of the worst 3-4 months of my life and I hate those things with a burning passion now.
Oh god I would die. That’s an earwig and they’re disgusting
breakfast?
People joke about it, but I seriously did get one in my ear while sleeping about 12 years ago. It scratched my eardrum. Not fun at all.
What if it only crawled out of your mouth and had a different entry point?.....
You seem fun 😅
We had them everywhere. Sprayed bug killer around the house a couple weeks ago and haven't seen any since. Well, not inside anyway.
We get sprayed for mosquitos and I haven’t seen these. Maybe it’s disrupting the bug life cycle around my house. Win-win.
May I ask what you used? The Ortho Home Defense didn’t work for me.
Bayer Advanced I believe.
Thanks homie :)
How'd it taste?
Waxy
Someone needs to have a talk with this little guy about his identity... "You're an EAR wig... EAR." "But... I like big mouths and I cannot lie"
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Hahahaha. No
Did it taste like chicken. I heard a lot of things do.
Let the house centipedes cook. This is why I let those creepy house centipedes live so they can rid the earwigs. I don’t have earwigs but I do see house centipedes once in a while…As gnarly as they look, they want to avoid you much as possible unlike these things…
This thread is almost making me feel better about our current situation. We've had a whole lot of rain in recent weeks and it's been driving these little assholes inside in greater numbers than I've seen in previous years, but it's still not as bad as some that I'm reading in the comments. It's making me feel almost lucky that we've *only* had to kill a couple a day for the last month or so
Did he at least buy you dinner afterwards
Hmmm. Taken any trips to Ceti Alpha V lately?
So I'm not the only one to notice that resemblance. Live long & prosper.
About 10 years ago I was driving and my baby was in the back in his car seat. Suddenly he screamed this blood curling scream so I pulled over and swung open his door. One of these fuckers pinched him under the EYE and was just hanging there! So scary ugh
Fun fact: That's a female. Males have small, straight pincers.
Nature knows when you are hungry
Damn that mild winter! Free snack!
It's supposed to go in your ear, not your mouth.
I hoped you saved it That ass is fat
Absolutely not.
That was the dentist :|
Un cortapichas!
 *NIKE: "JUST DO IT!"*
Were Khan's hands that shaky that they missed your ear?
I just had one of these fuckers inside of my electric toothbrush. Thankfully as I wet it, I saw the dreaded tail come out of the hole on the brush head. It was disgusting!!!!!?
Scrimp is bugs
Now you will be compelled to give up the location of Genesis.
They are everywhere this year! I’ve never seen so many in my entire life. Wonder what’s going on with that.
Man, earwigs have been wild this year.
Fun fact! They will also bury themselves in the bristles of your tooth brush and are nearly impossible to see!
I thought it was an earwig, not a mouthwig!
U killed it tho. Murderer. Innocent little earwig, trying to invade your body.
Rubbing alcohol in a spray bottle. they will die
One was crawling on the back of my neck while I was doing my makeup this morning! wtf is up with these things this year!?
What the hell is that horror show
They belong in your ear not mouth
Wrong hole
What why? And why didn’t you run off the roof of a tall building after that?! (I’m glad you didn’t not worth it but damn that sucks sorry OP)
If one of those ends up in my mouth, the very next thing in there is a gun.
These guys have been finding their way inside this year in greater numbers than ever before. Most of the time I'd see a few outside under plant pots or something but they're wandering indoors this year.
These and centipedes have been in my house for the first time ever this year. I couldn’t sleep the other night because I kept picturing a centipede crawling into my mouth and down my throat… if that happened, I think I would actually die on the spot
We seem to have an infestation of the little fuckers starting at home
If that thing pinched me i would fucking pinch it back with my foot
THATS WHAT SHE SAID!
Yummy
Breakfast in bed.
Put it back in
You ain’t gotta do your man like that
Same thing happened to me yesterday, it was in my drink. Startled the shit out of me . Dropped my phone and cracked the screen. Fuck those ear wigs man.
Eww where do u all Live to see all the earwigs u r all Chewing on and spitting out ekk I feel for u all…I live in Canada I haven’t ever seen one yikes and hope to never see one lol js ew
Earwigs are freaky but not really dangerous at least
They just started creeping up at my place too
Since my earliest childhood I've got a deep scare of those mfs. I heard too many stories of them actuelly crawling into the ear canal. Brrrrr
These fuckers are everywhere this year!
They don't belong there! Unless you did it on purpose 👀
Pure protein
You got any Dahlias in your garden?
Wtf. U just unlocked childhood memories of these little bastards terrorizing my outdoor playhouse. We called them “pinchers”. I truly have no idea if they actually pinch but those claws appears as tho they could do some serious pinching.
Ah, yes - The Ear Wig's lesser known cousin the Tongue Wig.
I was doing maintenance on my cat's ceramic fountain, cleaning and changing the filter and one of them suddenly appeared on my hand 😭 I'm aware they're harmless, but it was nasty. Guess my cat got to enjoy protein water I guess
Check your reusable straws!
use some triazicide around your house and in your yard...should keep them from coming into the house...and head over to your neighbors lol
Whoa I thought it was a 🦂 still scary though!
Cheap parlor tricks for all the fuckoffs of the world... Turns out, there's waaaay too many!! 💀💀💀
Huh... saw this little guy at the Fullerton Brown Line in Chicago the other night.
breakfast in bed!
I have been woken up by a roach crawling across my head. I feel grateful now that it wasn't in my mouth. No thank you!
One of our house spiders was chomping one the other day. That little bro earned himself a lifetime pass
was it….in your toothbrush?
Those go in your ears silly
You gotta give it that Hawk Tuah!
I see this a lot with coffee drinkers. I like coffee myself but I've yet to have this happen. Talk about PANIC
What the hell it has a claw coming out the ass