earwig control

If you have a garden of any type, you need to worry. We are absolutely over run with earwigs this year. Anytime a rose blooms, it looks like swiss cheese within a day or so. I had a healthy milkweed plant one day, the next it had been eaten down to the stalks. They did so much damage to it, the plant died. They have eaten almost all of my seedlings, I moved the survivors to the house, not realizing they are in my house too! This is the absolute worst I have seen them, there are to many for my hens to keep up! I am picking up some food grade DE at the feed store today to use around the yard where my hens aren't able to get to. I can't stand those buggers. Every time I move something now, I found one or ten! They are pests to your garden, but as the others have been saying, snacks for your babies!
 
I would be concerned only to the extent that earwigs may be drawn to the coop because of the chicken feed. Personally, I don't want pests like that inside the coop (or my garden). I'd use diatomaceous earth in the coop, concentrating on getting it into the corners and cracks where they hide in the daytime. If you want to salvage some for chicken snacks, put a nice layer of wet newspaper in a corner of the run. Next morning when you let the girls out of the coop, flip the newspaper over and voila! chicken candy.
 

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