Contrary to popular belief, earwigs do not actually crawl into human ears. They derive their name from an old myth associating them with ears of sleeping people, laying eggs, and breeding, causing deafness or insanity. Earwigs are found inhabiting a variety of environments, ranging from temperate forests to urban landscapes.
They prefer moist and dark habitats, such as under rocks, logs, and mulch. In urban areas, earwigs can be commonly found in gardens, flower beds, and damp crawl spaces or basements. Once they discover an environment in which they thrive, they will reproduce. Earwigs undergo incomplete metamorphosis, meaning that they hatch from eggs into nymphs, which resemble miniature versions of adults.
Female earwigs lay clusters of eggs in underground burrows or burrows. or in moist crevices where they provide maternal care until the nymphs hatch. After several molts, nymphs reach adulthood and begin reproducing, completing the life cycle.