earwigs in English

noun
1
a small elongated insect with a pair of terminal appendages that resemble pincers. The females typically care for their eggs and young until they are grown.
He published papers illustrating discontinuous variation in floral symmetry and in terminal forceps of earwigs and the hornlike processes seen in certain male beetles.
verb
1
eavesdrop on a conversation.
he looked behind him to see if anyone was earwigging

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1. The next day when the pinecones were collected up they were full of earwigs.

2. Gardener's Tips Earwig Traps Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs.

3. In European earwigs, the males sometimes have long pincers protruding from the end of their Abdomens

4. 1 Gardener's Tips Earwig Traps Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs.

5. 20 Gardener's Tips Earwig Traps Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs.

6. Anoplura Sucking lice Piercing-sucking, stylet sac absent Blattaria Cockroaches Chewing Variable Coleoptera Beetles Chewing 2 pair (1st pair = elytra) Collembola Springtails Chewing Apterous Dermaptera Earwigs Chewing 2 pair, front pair elytra, second membranous Diplura Diplurans Chewing lacking Diptera Flies Piercing-sucking, or sponging 1

7. Sow Bugs, Pill Bugs, Isopods, Lawn Shrimp and Amphipods (90) Diseases: Real and Imagined (45) Dobsonflies and Fishflies (374) Hellgrammite (72) Dragonflies and Damselflies (346) Earwigs (57) echinoderms (1) Eggs (308) Fish (4) Fleas (15) Flies (1784) Bathroom Flies (17) Bee Flies (107) Beetle Flies (1) Big Headed Flies (1) Black Flies (2) Black