The earwigs come out at night and are eating the sunflowers bad?

Just to let those who have Sun Flowers growing that awhile back I noticed that the ear wigs are all over the flower part at night. may want to put some crisco oil out tonight if possible.

The earwigs come out at night and are eating the sunflowers bad?
Roll up some newspaper or cut 12" sections of old hose, or rolled corrugated cardboard and place them at the base of your sun flowers. During the day time the earwigs will seek shelter in these items and you can collect them at dusk and dump the earwigs into a pail of soapy water. Continue to do this daily until you no longer find earwigs.
Reply:soapy water will do the trick.......... take a spray bottle of water and add liquid dish soap........Spray the entire plant and the ground that surrounds it... it will work on ants, and potato bugs, most any bug that is eating your plants or sunflower.....Good luck
Reply:Burn em, burn em all!
Reply:Either that or spray the bugs with diluted, Murphy's Oil. It is a vegetable based soap that will suffocate the bugs
Reply:Spread non toxic diatomaceous earth around your sunflowers. Safe to use around people and pets.
Reply:I don't know if this solution will work on earwigs, but someone told me years ago to put diatomaceous (sp?) earth around my catalpa tree. The worms come July 4 and devour the leaves in two weeks flat.





The product, Concern, is available at garden supply centers (Southern States in our area of the country).





It is allegedly powdered glass that rips open the worm's underside as it crosses. Our tree has been spared every year since, except I didn't get the tree powdered in time this year and it's now barren.





Never fear. The leaves WILL return.