Fleemo said:

Last night was the worst! My garden is infested! They were munching
on my Stella Del Oro daylily blooms by the dozen! I had some dahlia
seedlings on my potting bench and they nibbled them to NOTHING. My
black eyed susans are swiss cheese.

If you had had a sprayer of soapy water with you, you could have fought
back very effectively. Earwigs are *extremely* vulnerable to soapy water.
You just need to score a direct hit.

Spray them while they are feeding at night. Then spray their hiding places
during the day. (Bark crevices, cracks where boards meet, wood piles, wood
chips -- the places they explode out of when disturbed during the day.)

There is a certain satisfaction watching the earwigs die...

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)