Marava pulchella

Cariblatta lutea

Cariblatta lutea

Macropanesthia
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Tiny earwigs from AL (~ 0.25"). They are easy to breed and seem to get along well with larger species of roaches (i.e. Blaberus).

Neat thing about this species is that they come in brachypterous and macropterous form. You can see the difference between the two in the pics below (ones with yellow spots are macropterous specimens).

PS. They are up for trade ;)

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Cute little guys, earwigs are one group of insect that I find is very underappreciated in the hobby, especially considering the amazing maternal care female earwigs have for their offspring. :)  Thanks for sharing pics of this cool little species!

 
Hisserdude said:
Cute little guys, earwigs are one group of insect that I find is very underappreciated in the hobby, especially considering the amazing maternal care female earwigs have for their offspring. :)  Thanks for sharing pics of this cool little species!
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Indeed! There's quite a diversity and some are really pretty yet not many people give much thoughts on these guys :(  Hopefully more people will begin to appreciate them when I start spreading some of the native species :)

 
Salmonsaladsandwich said:
Hmm, next time I'm near the seashore I'll have to collect some of those predatory maritime earwigs and see if I can breed those.
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I tried keeping those and failed. Apparently they are highly cannibalistic as I had females lay eggs on multiple occasion and even saw babies, but they always disappeared within months. So I kept 4 nymphs separate from each other and they all grew fine (until I forgot to mist them -_-  )

 
I love my earwigs I keep them in a large glass jar and they make tunnels like ants. I have only fed them dead roaches for 6 months and the colony still grows. What are some other good foods for them? Mine are ring legged earwigs maybe we can trade earwigs when the weather gets better. So how are yours with climbing? Mine climb anything except glass. Also mine out compete roaches and I think mine could over power a small roach. I'm overly cautious about that kinda thing though. I'm looking forward to see what other earwigs you bring to the hobby. :)

 
Hadn't thought of keeping earwigs before. Might be something to try with the ones here once the weather warms up again. I think we mainly have the European species, but hey, gotta start somewhere, right?

 
I found some larger ones (the size of a large carpenter ant) here in Kentucky living in a smoke detector in a treehouse . Wish I had kept a few instead of spraying them for the customer. Sometimes people overreact to insects, but when your the exterminator.....

 
lovebugfarm said:
I love my earwigs I keep them in a large glass jar and they make tunnels like ants. I have only fed them dead roaches for 6 months and the colony still grows. What are some other good foods for them? Mine are ring legged earwigs maybe we can trade earwigs when the weather gets better. So how are yours with climbing? Mine climb anything except glass. Also mine out compete roaches and I think mine could over power a small roach. I'm overly cautious about that kinda thing though. I'm looking forward to see what other earwigs you bring to the hobby. :)
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I use dog food and they seem to like it. Mine can't climb smooth surface like yours. I find ring legs in my backyard by the way. lol 

I also keep larger species of Euborellia that gets to about an inch in length. So far they've been prolific so I'm hoping to have them available as well

pannaking22 said:
Hadn't thought of keeping earwigs before. Might be something to try with the ones here once the weather warms up again. I think we mainly have the European species, but hey, gotta start somewhere, right?
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Give it a shot! They are pretty much roaches with forceps. LOL 

Matttoadman said:
I found some larger ones (the size of a large carpenter ant) here in Kentucky living in a smoke detector in a treehouse . Wish I had kept a few instead of spraying them for the customer. Sometimes people overreact to insects, but when your the exterminator.....
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That's sad :(  I wonder what species they were 

 
Yeah the ring legged are pretty common. What do you think about their potential as a feeder? The baby's are super small great size for slings im a lil worried about them trying to eat slings though or burrowing and not getting eaten right away. I figure I have a lot of earwigs and until people are interested in them I should find a use for them.

 
I will now keep an eye out for more. I found them in the winter last year. I am guessing they chose it as a place to go dormant. It was 10ft off the ground so kind of strange for a leaf litter critter. Probably 15 or so curled inside.

 
lovebugfarm said:
Yeah the ring legged are pretty common. What do you think about their potential as a feeder? The baby's are super small great size for slings im a lil worried about them trying to eat slings though or burrowing and not getting eaten right away. I figure I have a lot of earwigs and until people are interested in them I should find a use for them.
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I personally don't use them as feeders because one time I gave a ring leg to my Zelus janus male and saw it eating the earwig. Few hours later when I checked on him he was dead :(

Matttoadman said:
I will now keep an eye out for more. I found them in the winter last year. I am guessing they chose it as a place to go dormant. It was 10ft off the ground so kind of strange for a leaf litter critter. Probably 15 or so curled inside.
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Sounds like they may have been Forticula auricularia 

 
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