EARWIGS, EWWWWWWW

[Casual Shinji]

So I've recently moved and along with the horror of changing my internet provider, came the realization that I had also moved to another ecosystem. There seems to be a diffrent variety of insects here. And one more notoriously is the earwig(ewwww)of which I've seen an alarming amount creeping around my floors and walls. Now, I have vanquist a fair number of these little bastards. But my question to you is.

Do earwigs actualy crawl in your ears?

 

[BlackIronGuardian]

One tried to. Bastard's dead.

 

[Xan Krieger]

I see them around here but never had to deal with what the guy above me had to deal with. Don't know how to get rid of the little buggers.

 

[JRCB]

No, they don't. They originally lived in wigs, where they would eta the sweat. They would occasionally fall out, leaving people to believe that they would go into your ears.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

 

[Hazy]

A friend of mine, back in 3rd grade, told me that earwigs crawl into your ears, lay eggs in your brain, then they hatch and eat your brain. And I believed him. Yeah, I was a stupid kid.

As for your question OP: Never heard of them actually succeeding in trying to get in.

 

[bodyklok]

I've never had it happen to me. I also don't find anything particularly disgusting about insects in general; they're tiny. How could I be threatened by that? Of course that's not to say anything smaller than me can't be scary, there are plenty of venomous things out there less than half my size, but I can avoid them with ease.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

Yeah I don't think the crawl in your ears.
But I smash the before they get they chance.

 

[SevenStarSonata]

No, no they do not, any more than other bugs do.

But srsly, much hate for the title. I was in the middle of lunch, damnit, and now I feel all queasy and stuff at the thought of earwigs. Eew. We had a silverfish problem in my college dormroom freshman year and I still haven't quite forgiven the nasty little buggers...

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

They don't, it's some weird name given to them that I should remember from watching QI.

 

[Amnestic]

A friend of mine, back in 3rd grade, told me that earwigs crawl into your ears, lay eggs in your brain, then they hatch and eat your brain. And I believed him. Yeah, I was a stupid kid.

As for your question OP: Never heard of them actually succeeding in trying to get in.

I got told the same thing I believed it too.

 

[scnj]

I suppose they could, but it would likely be a coincidence rather than an intentional act of cranial sabotage.

 

[j0z]

They are no more likely to crawl into your ears than any other bug.
[link]http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/bugear.asp[/link]
No, they do not eat your brains.

 

[luna_moth]

Do earwigs actualy crawl in your ears?

No they don't, that's an urban legend

 

[Dr Ampersand]

Nope 'tis a child's myth.

 

[El Poncho]

Clean your wherever you are alot they might go away.

 

[megapenguinx]

They don't. Plus besides looking like little demons, they don't do much other than hide under stuff or become spider food.

 

[GrindBass]

I think (though I'm not entirely sure) that the name is due to their pincers looking a bit like old fashioned ear piercing apparatus

 

[lwm3398]

why would a lump of cartilage need hair?

 

[Smokeydubbs]

No, no they do not, any more than other bugs do.

But srsly, much hate for the title. I was in the middle of lunch, damnit, and now I feel all queasy and stuff at the thought of earwigs. Eew. We had a silverfish problem in my college dormroom freshman year and I still haven't quite forgiven the nasty little buggers...

Want to see something really gross? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj9CysSSsps

 

[Tygerml]

Do earwigs actualy crawl in your ears?

No they don't, that's an urban legend

Not entirely true, they're bugs and they'll go anywhere they can get to. I used to live in southern BC and they get everywhere, like roaches.

The trouble with earwigs and ears is that some insects have a difficult time backing up. An earwig is fairly large and can't get turned around in an ear canal. They keep going forward trying to find an exit.