Forficula auricularia
European earwig. Northern California, USA.
European earwig. Urbana, Illinois, USA.
Labia minor
Labia minor is a small earwig that has been introduced worldwide with human commerce. This one arrived to a blacklight. Dripping Springs, Texas, USA.
A small earwig unfurls its flight wings with the help of its forceps at a blacklight sheet. Earwigs have one of the most efficient wing-folding designs among insects. Dripping Springs, Texas, USA.
Euborellia annulipes
A female Ring-legged Earwig guards her eggs. Among insects, earwigs are unusually attentive mothers. Gainesville, Florida, USA.
A mother earwig guards her eggs. Brackenridge Field Laboratory, Texas, USA.
Dermaptera
Mindo, Pichincha, Ecuador.
Euborellia arcanum
Formally described only in 2015, the mysterious earwig has become common worldwide from uncertain- probably Neotropical- origins. Austin, Texas, USA.
