These titles may have arisen when people slept at floor level, and
found earwigs
searching for dark cavities.
The
european earwig
is a common insect of fields, woods and gardens.
Based on an
unoriginal earwig
forwarded by sue sinclair, january 1996.
Female earwigs
have forceps which meet with a straight edge.
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