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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Earwigs (Dermaptera) » Common Earwigs (Forficulidae) » Forficula » European Earwig (Forficula auricularia)
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What weird bug please? - Forficula auricularia - female
Copyright © 2018 Cathy Wilson

What weird bug please? - Forficula auricularia - Female
Loudonville, Ashland County, Ohio, USA
August 20, 2018

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What weird bug please? - Forficula auricularia - female What weird bug please? - Forficula auricularia - female What weird bug please? - Forficula auricularia - female
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Contributed by Cathy Wilson on 29 August, 2018 - 10:08pm
Last updated 11 September, 2018 - 11:06am

Moved
Moved from Earwigs.
… metrioptera, 11 September, 2018 - 11:06am login or register to post comments

Earwig
Looks to be an European earwig - Forficula auricularia.
… Gerard Zavaski, 30 August, 2018 - 10:43am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!
Love these latin names :)
Origin: [L., small shears, scissors, dim. of forfex shears.] forficula
… Cathy Wilson, 30 August, 2018 - 1:07pm login or register to post comments

Earwig
Maybe this one:

… Ken Wolgemuth, 29 August, 2018 - 10:38pm login or register to post comments

 
wow. Thanks Ken!
Doesn't look much at all like the dark-all-over ones I'm familiar with.

(UPDATE: Oh my gosh. I see in the archive that I was complaining about them being on those milkweeds back in 2012. But they were very different looking . . . I guess 'cause they were young)
… Cathy Wilson, 30 August, 2018 - 5:55am login or register to post comments

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