EEEWW EEEEEW EEEEEW EEEEEEW

Lovely photo.

BUT EEW

Howeve,r apart from my ews of horror, I've never seen it up this close before. He does have some lovely coloring going on there.

Your Earwigs are on steroids; and since I live in the woods GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS? :DDD INVASION YAY I don't mind them too much until they crawl into my pants leg and all that good stuff...

We have earwigs here to, gotta ask, which is odd since I was called the bug boy as a kid, but, do they really like to get in ears? lol

No, it's a myth.

the name comes the same Old English as the bird the Whiteear - a bird with a white arse. And earwigs wiggle their asses.

or a nother place the name could have come from is that when its wings are extended, the winds together look a lot like a human ear

they do? doesn't look particularly ear-like to me....

http://www.flickr.com/photos/deadmike/225751024/

That is a mighty looking set of butt pinchers.

HIS BUTT
CAN PEENCH YOU

That's really.. gross :C
And creepy.
And eewww, ew, ew, ew, ew @__@ *shudders*

And totally awesome looking. 83

Good grief. The largest I've seen around here is about 1/4 inch. Was it really fast or sluggish?

It could move at a pretty good clip. I couldn't keep it under control until I got it into that bottle top that it's resting in above.

Hehe. It liked the pickle residue.

Ick ick ick. These guys have been taking over our apartment ever since spring came around... We always know when another has snuck inside when the cats are sitting in a circle staring at the floor :P

holy fuck and INCH?? gawd.. biggest ive seen is a CM! >< and ours are small lil black fuckers.. that piinnchhh
XD

holy shit that is a HUGE earwig!! earwigs used to be one of the only insects I was afraid of, because they seemed to show up in garbage cans when I least expected them... but after growing up a little, honestly, they are cool as hell. and this photo is great!

Nice specimen. :)

Absolutely gorgeous find, he's definitely a powerful male and sure to survive for years (let's just hope he doesn't meet any hungry birds though). The amount of depth in his abdomen, with that beautiful ochre color, is probably my favorite part. You're awesome for uploading this, thank you so much! :D

Glad you like it. :)

I don't think I've ever come across this species before. I typically see examples like the other one in my gallery.

I'll try and process a couple more photos of this guy later today.

I'm surprised! European earwigs are all I used to see back in NY; I've only seen a ring-legged once before.

Tvestjärt in swedish^^ Scary bastards, hate them :P

Great pic of one of my favourite critters, Queue. However, I can't get the full size to work.

Odd...I'm not having any problems. I'll play around with it.

Wig wig wig!

It's a boy! ^_^


Oooh - he's beautiful. I love the antennae detail you caught there. Hell - the detail here is gorgeous!


I've only found one ONCE - but there is a West Australian painted earwig that is all pink and white and mauve. Hangs out in chalkier territory than my area (I'm in the red sandstone bit!)

sweeet! I love earwigs - awesome photo!

wow, that looks really adorable. i love the zoom you give to your photos, so much you can easly watch it's small hairy things :D great job on taking this photo! <3 *favee*

Well... No sleep for me tonight. O.O;

+1 to that.

Had to go and click it, didn't I?

I hate those things. They are so creepy!

Great shot, your an artist wit the camera...

UUUUGH I HATE Earwigs...

I know they are pretty much harmless, but they remind me of the ants from "Honey I Shrunk The Kids", just with spikey asses lol.

Ah one of my favorites.

One of those insects I won't feed to my spiders. Up there on my list with praying mantises and bumble bees.

Kinda always had a fascination of there names. And there spanish name here, "Tijerilla".

I remember getting 1 of these guys off a man in church a few weeks ago. Compared to this one, the one I removed from that stranger was tiny.

1 question though, are they dangerous in anyway? Can they pinch with the pincers?

They're completely harmless.

Yeah I kinda figured they'd be harmless. I just asked that 'cause my mom was curious about it when I showed this to her.

Holy shit, that is one big earwig.

I found one about that big once back home in MN. Such neat critters.

HOWEVER - while it is true that they are mostly harmless, and that the crawl-into-your-ear thing is technically a myth... it has happened. What they don't tell you is that plenty of insects have crawled into people's ears and done nasty things. There was a guy who went into the hospital back home complaining of an ear ache and they found maggots in there. Apparently a fly had laid a few eggs in his less than clean ear. There's also been cases of spider infestations in ears.

Anyway, earwigs: http://blogs.lib.ncsu.edu/insects/e....._earwig_report

Yeah, reliable source and everything. Freaky stuff! (But oh so cool.) :D

An INCH well is only 1, were I live right now, flip a rock you see hundreds of those! but there size are more smaller like 3 centimeters

3cm is over an inch o.o

>.< i don't know the American size >.>

seriously, my favorite insect order ^^ good pic

very common inquiline species, but damn, an inch long is a massive ol boy (the pincers say it's male) he must be getting all the chicks

As long as it doesnt try to pinch me I'm good xD swell photo though <3

Ack! Noooo! Get it away! Bug! Scary! Cover yer ears! They're all gonna laugh atchoo!

Oh, Mom...

Part of the cockroach family you see!

Actually, cockroaches and earwigs aren't very closely related. They don't share a Family.

They're actually not even in the same Order.

Well i mean they're related to cockroaches in the least..
They both carry salmonella :D

I would probably have a heart attack if I saw this guy suddenly in the house, but at the safe distance of a photo it's really fascinating.

Really? I'm still perplexed by some of the polarized reactions people have to these things.

I think it would be the surprise more than anything else. That giant pinchy butt is pretty darn startling. I'm not afraid of bugs and creepy crawlies in general, with the exception of spiders.

I used to be terrified of spiders. I think I've gotten over that now though. :P

I just can't - it's something about the way they move. A few weeks ago I tried to swat one off the ceiling, it fell near me and I screamed like someone had thrown a live grenade at me - and turned around to see my brother just staring at me and shaking his head in utter disgust. I should be ashamed, but I'm afraid of much stupider things, too. At least with the arachnophobia I have plenty of company.

Hehe, I used to be just like that. I just got tired of having an irrational fear that I couldn't really explain. And I was just so fascinated by the things.

It took a lot of work though. x.x

I guess I don't have any sort of motivation LOL

Oh, man... It looks like the Ceti eel from Star Trek 2. @_@

OMG.
HIS BUTT.
IT'S [i] DEADLY.

>.....>
Faiiiil.

I can't tell what's his front or his back!

D:

haha

oh bleh'

i remember collecting the "pincers" off of dead ons my grandmothers back porch when i was little lol

If you touch his backside he want to attack! Ever saw that? Its creepy!

I've never had any act aggressively.

I ever had that once... just one time :)

and I thought the earwig I found years ago was bad...

I mean.. not bad... but it scared the living Jesus out of me when it pinched my finger, I wasn't expecting such a jolt to course through my body like that, lol

Brilliant colors.
You're very inspirational, you make me wanna break out my camera and take some pretty insect pics <3

You should!

OMG!
You respond <3
Most popular folks don't.
I absolutely love your work, I have been browsing your gallery of
gorgeous buggies for the past half hour.
Nice to see someone out there shares my enthusiasm for spiders and other odd creatures <3

Me? Popular? :P Hardly, hehe

I loves the creepy crawlies.

Forficuli Forficula, Forficuli ForficulAAAAAA! Got pincers on me butt, forficuli forficula.

Beautiful specimen!