Mrs G,

I went out today and checked on the bagged apples and found some earwigs in them. I crushed them and they sure are ugly.

Tony

Tony, pestilence ain't pretty! :)

If I was in your predicament, I would try installing a few stinky bags around a few tree trunks and see if the earwigs would avoid climbing over them enroute to the upper tree area. It worked very well for me when I was trying to keep slugs from slithering up the trunks of fruit trees with emerging young sprouts on grafted scions....because they were eating the scion sprouts at night. Using a thin plastic grocery bag, I wrapped the bottom of the upright bag around a smooth tree trunk area, and then encircled that with tightly wrapped electric tape....so bugs could not crawl beneath the taped bag bottom. I puffed out the middle of the bag, and then wrapped the top of the bag snug against the trunk, where a second wrapping of tight electric tape held the top of the bag. I then used a cheap aerosol can of ant/roach spray to mist over the puffy middle of the bag all the way around. The whole installation takes a whopping one minute......I guess that the puffy bag was hard for the slugs to travel over, and the smell was also a strong hint to go elsewhere. I used tan bags so that the appearance was less of an eyesore. Good luck.

Coping, that is great! Thanks so much!

Corn Oil or EVOOin a plate will wipe them out quick... Search for threads with result pics :)