SM>Yes. I live in northern Maine. In fact our town is the most northern town 
in
  >the continental U.S.A.!!! It gets 40 below quite often in the winter. I 
wish
  >the cold would kill those awful bugs. The problem is, I don't know where 
the
  >nest. I just see one here, and one there. In weird places. Like a drawer, 
on
  >the couch, in the sink, on the floor. Only one at a time though. I'm 
fraid
  >won't be able to kill them all with them being so scattered. They are even 
i
  >my upstairs in the fall now!!! Sure hope something works!
Sue, if these are still in your house when it is very cold outside, you 
could have them in plants.  Do you have indoor plants?  The earwigs 
could be in the soil.  You can treat the soil with stuff like diazinon 
and it won't hurt any pets you have.  Have you got any spiders in your 
house?  Check basement areas or dark areas for webs.  First of all 
don't kill the spiders, secondly see if there are any trapped earwigs 
in the spider webs.  The first year that we bought our present house, 
we had an earwig problem.  They can squeeze under loose fitting doors.  
We removed the two exterior doors and added sweeps to the bottoms and 
made sure that the doors were snug.  If you have aluminum storm doors, 
they are hollow in a lot of places and the earwigs will get into those 
areas and eventually into the house when you leave the house door open 
on warmer days.  The trough area where the aluminum window fits when 
closed, is a good place to put baby talcum powder. (Note that not all 
baby powders are talcum...I think that Johnson's might be the only 
one.) Talc will kill earwigs.  Shake talc inside your window ledges and 
any area that the earwigs will have to cross.  If you have pets, then 
look in Chinese areas for a product called Chinese Chalk.  It looks 
like ordinary chalk but it is also talc and you can draw a line where 
the earwigs might cross.  This will kill them.  We tried all of these 
things and we seldom see one.  Good luck.
                           Doris Dignard
                      dorisdignard@better.net
                    doris.dignard@capcanada.com
                      
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