To ask what this insect is that I keep finding around my house

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Does anyone know what this is? I have found 4 dead ones in different parts of the house over the last couple of weeks.

It looks like an earwig

Earwig.

Yup. Earwig.
Or eeriewig as it’s known locally.

They come in from the garden sometimes. Horrible things. I think spiders eat them.

Yes, it's an earwig. We get them inside occasionally (in California), but usually I see them in the garden.

Earwig!

It's a scary earwig as my dh calls them - after one crawled into his ear while we were camping 😱

There has been a plague of earwigs this year - lots of people I know have had them coming in the house. I think the warm spring served them well.

Earwig. We've got loads of them this year and they are making their way in the house via the washing on the line! Never known so many around

Does anyone else call them clipshears?

@Elieza

Yup. Earwig. Or eeriewig as it’s known locally.

They come in from the garden sometimes. Horrible things. I think spiders eat them.

How sad to call them horrible things. They are completely harmless. The reason they are called earwigs if they actually have wings which look like ears. Just put them out in the garden 😊

I thought it was because they look like earrings. They used to love it in the tent whenever I went camping. I was terrified of them as a child.

Clipshears was a word used by a fife/Aberdeen woman I knew. Lived in both places. Don’t know which that word was from though!

Don’t know where else used this phrase? Any other parts of the U.K.?

Yes! we normally get some in summer but a huge increase this year.

Hopefully caused by outside factors and how much of a tip the house is

Forky tail or a 'horny golaith' here in North East Scotland!

But yeah, earwig. Bloody loads of them this year.

My nieces call them choccy pigs - no idea why - they are adults!!!

A clipshear!!

we call them twitchybells here

I was a full grown adult before I discovered not everyone called them forky-tails. I always thought earwigs were some posh insect you only got in fancy areas of England 😂

I remember as a child that they used to nip you, so not completely harmless, but probably, in my case, only if provoked.

I kept finding a weird insect about 10 years ago with a scorpion type tail. Googled, with no result, and I eventually submitted a photo to the Natural History Museum. They came back with an Id that it was an insect that only feasted on large corpses. I'm still looking out for some missing neighbours.

@Skyliner001 I genuinely thought it was because they went in your ears! Not like all the time but I thought they liked small dark holes and end up in ears sometimes so it became like a nickname 😂

Forkie tailies for us!

@NigellaAwesome 😳 did you check the walls?

Not sure why they’re any more horrible than flies, wasps, ladybirds etc?

Have you got dahlias in your garden? Earwigs love them , which is why I won’t grow them.
When I was little my dad grew hundreds of them so earwigs were prevalent in our garden.
And yes, they nip.

Yes an earwig... they have pincers on the end of their body?
I found a Devil's Coachhorse once, now they are huge! Never seen one again. Once was enough