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The European Earwig (Forficula auricularia) is considered to be a pest in urban gardens, and also of fruit, ornamentals and a contaminant in mechanically harvested fruit. However earwigs are also efficient predators of fruit pests such as aphids, mites, scale and insect eggs, and are probably exerti...

The oil derived from the leaves of a deciduous shrub, Myrica gale, has been evaluated as a repellent against the Scottish biting midge, Culicoides impuncatus, and other haematophagous pests of man and livestock. Electrophysiological recording of responses from insect antennae (electroantennograms) d...