UPDATE: Earwigs DON'T drown. They are in the black pot swimming and climbing the walls. I had to rubber band plastic wrap around the top. Internets say beer. They will get drunk and then drown. Will pick some up this afternoon. (And, yes, I *will* keep it away from Gorilla Boy...)UPDATE # 2 - Beer bought, put earwigs in the beer. Earwigs ready for CSI. Tonight I'll put out beer traps.
Earwigs have somehow made their way up onto the deck and are living in my plants. They are also eating their hosts. THIS CAN NOT CONTINUE.Earwig Fighting Apparatus
Mosquito Spray
Flashlight
Tweezers
Bottle of water
Insomnia
Since the little monsters are active at night, it helps to have sketchy sleeping habits. Check. About 2am open the deck slider. Stick out hand with mosquito spray and blast the deck. It doesn't help to be on the buffet at the same time you are trying to take your plants off the buffet.
Activate flashlight, search plants, find earwigs, grab them with the tweezers (never, ever touch bugs if you can help it) and transfer earwig to bottle of water to drown. bwa-ha-ha!
Repeat. And hope your neighbors are as understanding about this as they were about the DI team launching shoes from the catapult, the punk rock band, the singing frogs, the siding project, the porta potty in the front yard...
Just hope PETA doesn't take after me like they did President Obama.
2 comments:
Yeah, if PETA find out about your ongoing battle with all things creepy-crawly, you're gonna be in trouble.
XOXOXOXO
I think if the PETA people were asked to put their hands into a garden glove after the earwigs have claimed it as their own... they would change their tune.
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