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I have had earwigs eating my balcony garden crops, so I decided to try a solution I found online: add 50/50 soy sauce and oil to a container and leave it overnight. It was filled with earwigs the next morning! So I am setting up another trap with an empty tofu dessert container.

That being said, earwigs aren't universally bad. They help decompose plant material in a compost pile. However on my balcony, they were doing more harm than good. The ladybugs can stay :P

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Any particular kind of oil? Vegetable?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It doesn't really matter. The oil just makes it hard for them to swim and suffocates them, the fish sauce is an irresistible lure. I use a cottage cheese container with some holes small holes in the lid that I bury in the corner of the garden bed.