Last night I took Briar out for her final business trip of the evening and noticed this big pile of earwigs feasting on fallen oak buds. Okay, I knew we had a lot of earwigs. I knew they nibbled on my purple potatoes last year. I have also suspected them of getting a few seedlings, like my coreopsis seedlings.
However, these earwigs chose an awfully suspicious place to dine. Right next to a denuded branch of moss-curled parsley.
Wes has just constructed me an anti-bunny defense screen for the front yard raised beds. So, soon we’ll find out… Are the bunnies really the culprits of the lost seedlings of mizuna, bok choy, and carrots? Did they, as suspected, eat all the leaves off my front yard parsley? Or am I going to have to find out if diatomaceous earth really works on earwigs?
Stay tuned.
So are you going to gather some and feed them some to see if they like it? On another note, i was looking at earwigs and discovered that the males have more curved cerci -pinchers than the straighter ones on the females. You probably knew that. 🙂 but i didn’t.
No we put a cover over the raised bed and if things still get eaten, it’s not bunnies. Will post about it soon. Wes just installed it.
Also no I didn’t know that!
Will interesting to know about the bunnies.