What you have discovered is a family of one of Britain’s least loved, but one of the most caring insects – an earwig. Only about 1% of insect species show parental care. Earwigs are one of them.

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[Related: Modern medicine still needs leeches] While the earwigs, an order of insects with 2,000 different species on six continents, do use their admittedly alarming-looking pincers, or forceps ...

In European earwigs and several other species, although the nymphs that emerge from eggs can feed on their own after a couple of days, mothers usually stay with them for a few weeks after they hatch.

The females usually decide when they’ve had enough, though males of some species use their pincers to restrain the object of their desire. In Tagalina papua, an earwig species from Papua New ...

Earwigs are mostly nocturnal and often hide in small, moist crevices during the day, and are most active at night. (File photo) SEE ALSO: Invasive alien species present in "every country ...

Earwigs are normally found outside in mulch or leaf litter, the cooperative said. They like moist locations with lots of organic matter, which in turn also means these are good places for plant growth ...