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Unknown creepy crawlie
Hi all . We had what looked like a giant earwig (clipshear) in the garden fair enough I thought everything has a right to be somewhere so wasn't too bothered. We found one crawling on the floor in the living room, which is quite a way from the back door (which had been opened) so it has either crawled a long way or this one was living in the house, it was about 30 mm long, arched its back (to bring its "clips" to bear ?) and was VERY tough, took what seemed an age to get it into a bottle to throw it out, all this time it was being thrust about on the carpet and no legs broke off,eventually I grabbed it with a piece of kitchen towel (didn't want to touch it as I didn't know what it was and may have had some substance on its "skin")and it felt armoured. Did seem a bit fatter and taller than an earwig certainly was longer. Wish I had taken a photo. last night. Does anyone recognise my (admittedly poor) description of this insect (?) and is it likely to live somewhere in the house or have we found a wanderer from the garden? Had a wee look on Wikipedia looks like an Australian Earwig (not quite so defined "clips" though) certainly looks nothing like any of the cockroaches. We live just outside Edinburgh In Scotland (Balerno) I would describe the area as being suburban with every house having a garden, we are above the snow line but there is no hint of snow at this time of year. Quite a clayey ( == is that a word?) soil with mainly grass in our garden -- This space intentionally left blank. |
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