To be crying over earwigs

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It's been a rubbish week, and a particularly bad day. DD has been irritable all day and I'm so tired, I finally get into bed and I've forgotten about the window being wide open (we live in v quiet rural area)

And now the bedroom has at least FOUR earwigs flying around on the ceiling that I can't reach to dispose of. I hate insects in the first place

Crying on the floor because I've nobody to help me sort them out and I just want to sleep. Feel ridiculous. AIBU- should I just then the light off and go to sleep? Shudder

But you have to go on with your lockable floors!

Update: I've killed every bastard one.

Sprayed them with deodorant until they hit the floor then flushed them down the loo.

Goodnight all! (Inside I'm screaming)

I'm obviously in the minority here but. .. people didn't know earwigs can fly?

Plus, they're harmless unless seriously provoked? Why the drama?

When it comes to bugs, your vacuum cleaner is your friend.

Wow! I didn't know ear wigs could fly!

The hoover would have been my first port of call!

That explains why they fall out of trees so often (light bulb moment).
Hate the feckers.

This might cheer you up. Went home to my mum and dads with my new baby. Baby was in carry cot at night. My dad propped it up on an old coke crate. Perfect height. Until the literally hundreds of earwigs that had been living in it (had been in the shed) starting crawling out all over me, my bed and my baby! I did not sleep the whole visit

Why didn't you get the hoover out😳

I also have a terror of daddy-long-legs as someone else said, but number 1 is moths. I live in a quiet rural area and I've never seen flying earwigs, something new to be scared of!

Didn't want to wake DD up with Hoover at 1am! She was cranky enough as is

Plus I worry they would lay eggs in my bin or something. Still not over this!

@Belleende that is absolutely bloody hideous how did you not die of a heart attack

i was "bitten" by an earwig and it made my finger go numb, right up to my wrist almost!

it was in the little finger of some rubber gloves, got the finger tip and was clinging on to my finger with its bastard pincers as I whipped the gloves off in a fit of hysteria!!

Then the numbness went along the finger and the outside of my hand....I decided if it got as far as my wrist I'd have to call someone, but it didn't...lasted about five minutes in all

It was like the reverse of when you bang you elbow really badly and the pain/fizzy numbness travels downwards!

So they do bite and try to kill people.

Bleergghhh poor you OP, DP is a wuss so I dispose of all insects, dead mice etc. in our house. A broom handle with tissue on the top is good for killing bugs on the ceiling for next time!

I also had NO idea earwigs could fly?! Where are their wings? And I was VERY into minibeasts as a child so am surprised I never knew.

they can fly. Ffs There is some knowledge I wish I remained ignorant about.

I had to get rid of garden furniture because they nesting in wooden holes and they bloody everywhere.

I thought I was safe from them in the house. My adult DD screamed the house down when there's a moth or spider in room which of course is my fault because I have windows and doors open to let air in

OMG Teabagtits, that happened to me too, nearly choked on the little bastard! what's with the earwigs and inhalers?? OP, for future reference, hairspray is a faster way to disable flying insects, if you have it.

Oh god. I had no idea they could fly!

Earwigs are good mothers. They look after their babies until they are mature enough to look after themselves Isn't that nice???

I had no idea they could fly though. All these years I've put vaseline round plant stems to stop them climbing up to eat the flower petals...

Earwigs don't fly, do they?

Found a huge earwig up my trouser-leg once. Ran around the living room screaming my head off as I stripped down to my knickers with my DH laughing (no gallant offers of assistance were made). I really hate them too OP, they give me the shudders. Good idea about the aerosol - spraying critters first gives you a chance to whack 'em while they stagger about in confusion.

When I was 16 I had a moped. I was travelling along at 30mph about 15 miles from home when I felt this weird pain in my neck. Pulled over, looked in the wingmirror and there was an earwig with its pincers fully stuck in my neck wiggling its body around all over the place. I was too scared to pull it out so drove all the way home (took about half an hour) hoping mum could remove it only to find she was out. Crying I had to knock on next doors front door and by that time I could only point at my neck and shout "get it out" in between sobs

Bloody hate them.
Oh and by the way my friend is an ear doctor. It's not a myth that they ... erm ... you know.

Had an argument with husband one night and he went and slept on the couch. He had an open can of Coke which he put on the floor beside him. In the morning he took a big glug of Coke - and earwig - which must have fallen in during the night.

Earwigs can fly?!! Wth? I haven't seen an earwig for years. I don't even think my children know what they are. I need to go out and find one now. They look like little scorpions to me.

. I'm shocked. I've spent my whole life thinking they only crawl. Wow.