I have had earwigs eating my balcony garden crops, so I decided to try a solution I found online: add 50/50 soy sauce and oil to a container and leave it overnight. It was filled with earwigs the next morning! So I am setting up another trap with an empty tofu dessert container.

That being said, earwigs aren’t universally bad. They help decompose plant material in a compost pile. However on my balcony, they were doing more harm than good. The ladybugs can stay :P

  • OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    Fish sauce and oil is really all you need. Fish sauce really brings them in. Cleaning the traps is gross. Don’t waste the soy if you don’t have to.