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Lesser Earwig Labia minor

This species is known to visit moth traps but it took me years of moth-trapping before I found one. Every now and then I'd get excited about a small earwig, only to find it was just a young Common Earwig. Eventally these two turned up...


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Lesser Earwig Labia minor shwowing close-up of antenna, hind tarsus and forceps, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 8th September 2023


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second Lesser Earwig Labia minor shwowing close-up of antenna, hind tarsus (above and below) and forceps, Wendling Beck Environment Project (Norfolk, UK), 8th September 2023






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