I have had earwigs eating my balcony garden crops, so I decided to try a solution I found online: add 50/50 soy sauce and oil to a container and leave it overnight. It was filled with earwigs the next morning! So I am setting up another trap with an empty tofu dessert container.
That being said, earwigs aren't universally bad. They help decompose plant material in a compost pile. However on my balcony, they were doing more harm than good. The ladybugs can stay :P
7 Comments
OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 2y
A couple drops of fish sauce will really make the traps work.
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 2y
Are we making an insect trap or just a killer dipping sauce?
OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y
Fish sauce and oil is really all you need. Fish sauce really brings them in. Cleaning the traps is gross. Don't waste the soy if you don't have to.
morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y
Any particular kind of oil? Vegetable?
OopsAllTwix@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
It doesn't really matter. The oil just makes it hard for them to swim and suffocates them, the fish sauce is an irresistible lure. I use a cottage cheese container with some holes small holes in the lid that I bury in the corner of the garden bed.
morphballganon@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y
Any particular kind of oil? Vegetable?
SoySaucePrinterInk@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Any oil will work. I used canola.