How do you get rid of earwigs in an APT?

Question

We've lived here for six months and seen nothing but the odd harmless house spider. We live on the second floor and are extremly tidy. All of the sudden there are ants on the cats food dish(we cleaned it and stashed it higher) and earwigs all over. I've killed six in the last two days.

Our AC went out recently and when they came to fix it they left our balcony door wide open for at least two hours. That cant be it though can it? Though the emergency window unit did let in all sorts of little bugs, but i havent seen them since.

WHERE ARE THESE THINGS COMING FROM!!!!

Answer 1

Same here.  The last two summers we had loads of earwigs.  I have no idea why....but we bought one of those plug in bug repellants, kinda like this:

http://www.target.com/Emerson-Plug-Repel...



only ours is by Black and Decker, and we got it at Target (don't see it on their website though)

Anyway, I haven't seen ONE earwig all year.  We did get ants, but nowhere near the device, so we are probably going to get a few more as it really seems to work.

Answer 2

Earwigs live on dead vegetation so they have to be coming from the landscaping around the apartments.In order to get rid of them you will need to spray with malathion50.You will need to keep the cat away from the areas sprayed until it dries.You can buy this at any store that carries gardening supplies.