{"id":93,"date":"2023-05-29T16:02:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T23:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/tfrec-orpet\/?page_id=93"},"modified":"2024-06-24T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T17:36:21","slug":"earwigs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cahnrs.wsu.edu\/tfrec-orpet\/earwigs\/","title":{"rendered":"Earwig Transportation Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Web Form for 2024 Workshop RSVP (click here)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Free earwigs and trainings on earwig mass-collection are available during summer 2024. Check the table below for a summary of locations. To receive detailed information and help us plan ahead, please RSVP using the web form linked above. This project is supported by Western SARE (Project #WRGR23-004).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Region<\/th>Location<\/th>Date and Time<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Yakima<\/td>USDA Research Farm in Wapato<\/td>Thursday July 18, 10\u201311AM<\/td><\/tr>
Wenatchee<\/td>Sunnyslope Peach Orchard<\/td>Thursday July 25, 10\u201311AM<\/td><\/tr>
Hood River<\/td>OSU Mid-Columbia Research & Extension Center<\/td>Thursday Aug 01, 10\u201311AM<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Table 1. Regions, locations, and timings for Earwig Transportation Workshops, 2024.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Why earwigs?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Earwigs are present and suppress pests when other predators are not. Specialist parasitoids and other predators may have multiple generations and lag behind pest populations that they must grow on. However, earwigs are omnivores, so they won’t starve when any particular pest population is low, and they have very low dispersal ability. A combination of “resident” earwigs, which capable of decreasing pest population growth, and other natural enemies, which can knock down larger pest populations, creates a community capable of keeping pest populations stable and low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Releasing earwigs into orchards results in fewer woolly apple aphids (Orpet et al. 2019) and fewer pear psylla (H\u00f6hn et al. 2007). We’ve also found no evidence that apples or pears are damaged by earwigs in the field. They just feed on fruit that has already been damaged, often by mechanical injury or cracking. We have video evidence that earwigs kill woolly apple aphids.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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