Earwigs

Symptoms
Flower petals and young leaves are eaten and older foliage is reduced to a tattered network of veins.

Spot them
Earwigs are 14mm long pale brown insects, with a distinctive pair of pincers at the end of their body that makes them easily reconisable.Earwigs are 14mm long pale brown insects, with a distinctive pair of pincers at the end of their body that makes them easily reconisable. Flower petals and young leaves are eaten; older foliage is reduced to a tattered network of veins.