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Ottawa’s Trusted Solution for Earwig Infestation
If earwigs keep showing up in your bathroom or basement, it’s because something is attracting them. Once they find moisture and shelter, they don’t disappear without intervention. They hide during the day, crawl out at night, and turn “quick fixes” into an exhausting routine.
At Get ’Em Out, we provide expert Earwig Removal service that target where earwigs travel, hide, and sneak inside. We focus on the problem areas that keep feeding repeat sightings, then add practical prevention steps to help keep activity down.
Book your appointment today and take control of your earwig issue before it gets worse.
Danger / Damage
Earwigs look scarier than they are, and they’re not really a serious threat to people. The bigger “damage” usually happens outside, where they can chew up seedlings, flower petals, and soft fruits, and make your garden look rough fast. Indoors, repeated sightings are your real warning sign: there’s often a damp hiding spot that keeps sending them back.
Active Months
In Ottawa, earwig problems ramp up from late spring through early fall, especially during humid weeks and rainy stretches. After heavy rain, outdoor hiding spots flood, and earwigs push toward foundations, door thresholds, and basements in search of shelter. You can still see them indoors anytime the home stays damp, even when the weather cools down.
Appearance
You’ll usually notice a small, quick insect that darts for cover the second you turn the light on. It’s typically brown to dark reddish-brown with long antennae and a distinct set of pincers at the back end. If you keep spotting them near sinks, tubs, under mats, or along baseboards, that pattern is a strong clue they’re nesting nearby.
Habitat
Moisture and sheltered clutter are the big magnets, so indoor hotspots include basements, laundry rooms, bathrooms, under-sink cabinets, floor drains, and areas behind baseboards. Outside, they pile up under mulch, wet leaves, stones, garden debris, and woodpiles, especially when those sit close to your foundation. They slip inside through tiny gaps around doors, windows, vents, and openings where pipes or cables enter.
Life Cycle
Earwigs lay eggs in protected, damp areas, which lets populations build quietly without you noticing at first. Once the young hatch, they stay close to the same shelter zones and mature over the season, so “random sightings” can turn into a steady pattern. Professional Earwig Removal helps interrupt that cycle by treating the hotspots that keep producing repeat activity.
Surprising Facts About Earwigs
- Earwigs are surprisingly good parents, and many females guard and clean their eggs to prevent mold.
- They can fly, but they rarely do, so most homeowners never see it happen.
- Those pincers look scarier than they are; they’re mainly used for defense and handling food.
- They’re mostly active at night, which is why sightings often happen after dark.
- Moisture matters more than food, so damp rooms and wet mulch beds attract them fast.
- Their flat bodies help them squeeze into tiny gaps under thresholds and into cracks unnoticed.
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Tired of earwigs constantly appearing? Get ’Em Out provides fast, reliable Earwig Removal that targets their hiding spots and trouble zones. Book your service now so the problem doesn’t keep coming back.
We’ll inspect the problem areas, treat the hotspots, and add protection around entry points for longer-lasting results. Our team keeps the process simple and stress, with clear instructions from start to finish.
Contact Us:
OTTAWA / GATINEAU
23 Slate Street, Stittsville, Ontario, K2S 1Y7
Phone: 613-416-6110
Email: service@getemoutwildlife.com
Hours:
Monday – Friday: 8 AM – 8 PM
Saturday: 9 AM – 5 PM
Sunday: CLOSED