Few people are fond of earwigs, with their menacing abdominal pincers—whether they’re skittering across your floor, getting comfy in the folds of your camping tent, or minding their own business.

Pretty much everyone I know grew up with an unholy fear of earwigs. The evil-looking pincers on the insect's tail were said to deliver a sting worse than a bee. And the creature's long, slender body ...

Think hard the next time you squish an earwig. If that earwig had babies, you’ve just orphaned them, thereby producing bigger earwigs. One wouldn’t think that earwigs have much of a home life, but ...

Earwig mothers sniff out their "best" offspring and lavish them with care, according to new research. The insects pick up odours from their clutch of "nymphs" and adjust their maternal behaviour in ...

Desperate times call for desperate measures. As food shortages hit, European earwig babies resort to eating each other’s faeces in their underground homes, helping to keep hunger and death at bay. In ...