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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Earwigs (Dermaptera) » Common Earwigs (Forficulidae) » Forficula » Forficula dentata
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Earwig - Thank you for identifying this frightening looking bug - Forficula dentata - male
Copyright © 2014 Klo721

Earwig - Thank you for identifying this frightening looking bug - Forficula dentata - Male
Culver City , Los Angeles County, California, USA
March 7, 2014
This bug was on my porch wood railing this evening around 8pm. I tried to capture it but was unsuccessful. It walks and when it fell off the railing it scurried underneath the brick and wood.
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Contributed by Klo721 on 7 March, 2014 - 11:25pm
Last updated 31 October, 2023 - 7:12pm

Moved
Moved from European Earwig.
… Connor E.J. Graham, 31 October, 2023 - 7:12pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Earwigs.
… metrioptera, 8 March, 2014 - 1:03pm login or register to post comments

I bet this is a male European earwig, Forficula auricularia
Moved from Arthropods.
… metrioptera, 8 March, 2014 - 5:00am login or register to post comments

 
it is indeed
… v belov, 8 March, 2014 - 8:48am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Klo721, 8 March, 2014 - 1:56am login or register to post comments

One of the
Earwig's
… Lisa I., 8 March, 2014 - 12:10am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you!!
Thank you!!
… Klo721, 8 March, 2014 - 1:33am login or register to post comments

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