Lists where they can be found, what they eat, and what they look like. Earwigs are dark, reddishbrown insects which are easily identified by the pincerlike projections on the tip of the abdomen, called forceps. Both males and females have forceps. The most common species in Illinois, the European earwig, is 58 of an inch long.

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