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Show Method Given on How To Control European Earwig Earwigs may not get in either your ears of your wigs this summer, sum-mer, but there is a good chance they will get all over your yard and even into your house. To control this obnoxious pest, the European earwig, dust with DDT around the edges of your lawns, the base of trees, foundations founda-tions of buildings, and piles of rubbish or building materials. That's the advise of Dr. G. F. Knowlton, Utah State Agricultural Agricul-tural College Extension entomologist. entomol-ogist. A 10 per cent DDT dust, applied ap-plied in the evenings when the lawn has not been watered since early morning, will give best results re-sults in destroying the miserable little foreigners, which do most of their traveling about at night. DDT water sprays applied to the foundation of houses and elsewhere are also effective in killing off the earwig. These sprays will also reduce fly and ant annoyance around the home and yard, according to Dr. Knowl-I Knowl-I ton. |