Yet there are no recorded instances that an earwig ever did enter a human ear, let alone for the purpose of laying eggs, supposedly leading to deafness and madness. It is, perhaps, the original horror ...

Contrary to popular belief, earwigs do not crawl into people's ear canals while they are sleeping and bore into their brains, but they do exhibit other revolting habits.

Nobody likes spotting bugs at the best of the times, and if you’ve spotted these brown crawlies around your home, you'll need to know how to get rid of earwigs. Contrary to its name, earwigs ...

Indeed, earwigs generally make humans cringe, particularly since the presumed genesis of their name is from an old wives tale that they crawl into sleeping people’s ears and tunnel into their brain!

Orphan an earwig and you get a super-earwig. What you don’t get is a good mother. Maternally-deprived earwigs feed their own offspring less than maternally-reared earwigs.

Are earwigs harmful to humans? Despite the myth that earwigs can crawl into human ears — which landed them the unlucky name — the bugs pose no threat to humans, Liesch said.

They find that, to mimic the earwig's wing, an origami-style folding approach won't do. Instead, they have designed and 3D-printed a selection of meta-stable designs that, ...