Bug Question

[Jack]

What are those nasty red bugs called? They are longish, and look like small red roaches, but they have a pair of antanai-like stingers on their butt. When in trouble, they swing their rear all about so they can sting you. I can't give a very good description.

These things seem to be everywhere outside my house, and knowing what they are would be nice, espially since one almost stung me.


Jack:confused:

[Joe Tully]

Sounds like earwigs. Here is a drawing of one earwig species and some info including a description.

http://www.ext.vt.edu/departments/entomology/factsheets/earwigs.html

[Jack]

Thanks Thanks Thanks! I wondering about those things, especially if they were poisonous or something. My mom calls them scorpion-ants (I call them roach-scorpions). Ugly, ugly, bugs...

Sort of strange that I never saw one before moving here.


Jack:D