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Otago Witness, Issue 3854, 24 January 1928, Page 72

While engaged in a mission of destruction among the earwigs in his garden, Mr J. B. Cade, of Matson’s road, Papanui, captured an earwig of unusual hue (reports the Christchurch Sun). It is pearlwhite in colour and it has an unusually well-developed set of forceps. A Sun reporter submitted it to several entomologists for inspection. One man said that klbinos among .insects often occurred, but he had never heard of a white earwig. Another man gave the information that earwigs often took on the colours of their environment. The earwig submitted . was an albino. The reporter was also informed that 'in the." Botanic ‘ Gardens, earwigs’ of various hues had been encountered. ‘