Yes, it seems I've had LOTS more than usual and the darn things creep me out! They've been even more trouble on my roses than the darn Japanese beetles.

I'm going to try the dish of water/soy sauce/ light oil and see if it traps them.

let me know how that works out for you, tomtuxman. i've had success, earlier on in the season, with a mixture of water and dish detergent applied with a spray bottle. this seems to have helped in curtailing something that i noticed eating some leaves. i never saw the culprit, but after i applied this -- it did seem to decrease the leaf munching.

--robbie--

I hate earwigs! They burrow inside the petals of my dahlias, then I inadvertently bring them inside when I cut some. My cats find them when they crawl out of the dahlia, and eat them and get sick on my carpet. Ugh!

I've seen a lot of them myself this year. Man are they ugly suckers! I'm more concerned about the jap beetles though this year, they are BAD, worse than the past couple of years.

Tom