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Animalia >Arthropoda >Insecta >Coleoptera >Labiduridae >Labidura >

An earwig, like pill bugs and spiders, is an insect that is easily found under dead leaves and flowering pots. They greatly outnumbered other insects in a pit-hole-trap sample collected in a soy-bean field. What is this insect feeding on in a soy-bean field? I fed earwigs with various insects and observed their feeding behavior. Earwigs caught Glyphodes pyloalis larvae and adult Acleris nigriradix with is tail pinchers and chewed and ate the body-fluid-rich abdomen of adult insects as well as whole larval insects. This suggests that earwigs move around agricultural fields at night and catch any Lepidopteran larvae or newly emerged Lepidopteran adults as they encounter them.

(Data No.momo050101lr01b)

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