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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17393, 2 March 1922, Page 9

The growing prevalence of earwigs in the cardens in and . around .Dunedin is assuming serious proportions, and gardeners aie showing a good deal of concern over the increasing depredations of the pest (says the Otago "Daily Times"). The subject was discussed at a meeting of the Gardening Club on Tuesday evening, and it was stated that the earwig was not only attacking the vegetable and flower gardens of the city, but it had also made its appearance in Central where it might easily becoine thp means of spoiling large _ quantities ot fruit. One speaker said-that earwigs were frequently introduced into gardens by means of manure, agd fof that reason it was important for people to know where they were obtaining the manure. A variety of methods fer getting rid of the earwig w*re discussed, and in this connexion the value of the hedgehog, which preys upbn tfys peft, was strongly empfiasirea, a plea being put forward that this little animal should be protected as much at possjble* Another effective mfethod ot de&ling with the pest was to place pieces of dry bread, covered with Paris green, about the garden, and various methods of trapping by means pf inverted tins or hollow pieces of wood were alio described.