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#1 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 16 2017 - 12:03 PM

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Hi!
Since the autumn months are finally here, the earwigs are getting active again. I have been seeing hundreds of earwigs flying to my front porch lights. Recently, I have also been finding pairs of earwigs under rocks. I've collected two females and one male, and they are currently living in the same vial. I am hoping to get some eggs from them by winter!

 

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#2 Offline T.C. - Posted October 16 2017 - 1:09 PM

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Here's some of my stuff on them.

http://www.insectboa...-earwig-journal

http://www.insectboa...keeping-earwigs
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#3 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 16 2017 - 3:32 PM

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Funny thing that you bring them up, your journals and tutorials got me interested in earwig keeping!
They are eastern form European Earwigs. I put a pair in my terrarium and I put my mated female in a test tube.
 

 


 


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#4 Offline nurbs - Posted October 17 2017 - 2:33 AM

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Great stuff! Always wondered about rearing them. They are all over SoCal under rocks and moist dirt.

 

Very social, like ants. Their parental nature is fascinating. Been wanting to breed these for the sole purpose of feeding ant colonies. Camponotus love their eggs.


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#5 Offline T.C. - Posted October 17 2017 - 6:25 AM

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Great stuff! Always wondered about rearing them. They are all over SoCal under rocks and moist dirt.

 

Very social, like ants. Their parental nature is fascinating. Been wanting to breed these for the sole purpose of feeding ant colonies. Camponotus love their eggs.

 

Thank you, one thing I was never able to over come was the third generation reproductives. I got them to reproduce the 1st year really well, the second year, they did okish, but the third year no one would make love.


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#6 Offline T.C. - Posted October 17 2017 - 6:35 AM

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This was one culture that did really well. I circled all the area's where the females laid eggs. Then there was a few on the sides of the container as well.

 


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#7 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 17 2017 - 12:14 PM

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Good news, I caught a NEW female earwig! She seems to be gravid, so I now have three gravid females total. Two of the females are in ziplock bags, one is in a test tube, and the male is in the terrarium.


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#8 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 17 2017 - 3:11 PM

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UPDATE: Their is one shriveled looking object at the bottom of earwig 1's tube. It kind of looks like an eggshell. 


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#9 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 22 2017 - 12:47 PM

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The earwigs haven't laid any eggs yet, but the females definitely seem swollen with eggs. 

I'm going to the beach soon, and I'm going to look for Maritime Earwigs. wish me luck!


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#10 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 22 2017 - 5:06 PM

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I just saw the terrarium pair hunt down and kill a snowy tree cricket... RIP...

I gave the vial earwig a piece of the leftover cricket, and she is just ignoring it for some reason. Maybe she is preparing to lay?


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#11 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted October 29 2017 - 6:31 AM

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No pics yet, the earwigs are very uncooperative.

The vial female has made several tunnels in the vial's soil, with one large chamber situated in the back. Hopefully she is getting ready to lay!


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#12 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted November 3 2017 - 8:25 AM

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I caught a new female and she's in the terrarium. My katydids laid eggs in the wintergreen leaves, which I was unaware of at the time. I recently saw the terrarium earwigs chew through a leaf and pull out an egg, so now I'm aware of that. I'm not sure what I should do about the eggs (removing the wintergreen would be very difficult)

 

Something amazing happened with the vial earwig. I offered her her daily meal of wild ant brood, and she actually started grooming one of the larvae (after eating the rest)! I wonder if this has anything to do with her maternal instinct kicking in...


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100+ sea squirts
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#13 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted November 22 2017 - 5:43 PM

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GREAT NEWS! Earwig #1 just laid five eggs, with more coming!

 

The larva died, btw.


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100+ sea squirts
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#14 Offline Connectimyrmex - Posted November 23 2017 - 6:32 AM

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Earwig #1 now has a decent sized clutch, with around ten or twelve eggs.


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Aholehole fish
Cowrie snail
Sea Fan Worm
100+ sea squirts
Tree seedlings
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