earwigs

[Kim Jordan]

Well I have a good one. Does anyone know how we could of gotten earwigs up on our heat bench & / or how to quickly get rid of them. I have 8-10 more weeks of veggie sowing.  We think they are the culprit that has destroyed 2 sowings of seedlings in 48 hours. Thought it might be mice, which have never gotten up on the bench before, getting a cat tomorrow.  Put out sticky traps & caught earwigs on the floor where the rubber heat line comes up.  Not a mouse one was caught in 8 different sticky traps on the bench or floor. They or something is digging up seeds that are about to emerge & eating tops off of newly emerged tomatoes & cole crops.  Some of the tops are clipped off & still in the tray on occassion a little bit of foliage is left. Also dug up a mimosa seed flat. Can't be birds because some of the damage is under a plastic germination tent. 

Kim

 

[Sharon Piper]

Hi Kim,
 
I'm afraid I don't have any helpful info ... just a question.  I'm curious to know if your seed came from all one source?  I know you use well composted materials so am wondering if earwig eggs were introduced from an outside source?  (I'm ordering seed today.)
 
Sharon
 

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Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 13:54:33 -0800
From: kimjj....@yahoo.com
Subject: [OAK] earwigs
To: oak...@googlegroups.com
CC: kim.c...@uky.edu

Well I have a good one. Does anyone know how we could of gotten earwigs up on our heat bench & / or how to quickly get rid of them. I have 8-10 more weeks of veggie sowing.  We think they are the culprit that has destroyed 2 sowings of seedlings in 48 hours. Thought it might be mice, which have never gotten up on the bench before, getting a cat tomorrow.  Put out sticky traps & caught earwigs on the floor where the rubber heat line comes up.  Not a mouse one was caught in 8 different sticky traps on the bench or floor. They or something is digging up seeds that are about to emerge & eating tops off of newly emerged tomatoes & cole crops.  Some of the tops are clipped off & still in the tray on occassion a little bit of foliage is left. Also dug up a mimosa seed flat. Can't be birds because some of the damage is under a plastic germination tent. 

Kim

 

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