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from Pam Moore contains these words:

No way have you described an earwig or a leatherjacket.

Earwigs don't have a larval stage, and don't pupate. They emerge from
the egg as very miniature earwigs, and the mother cares for the brood.

I like earwigs, though they look quite fearsome in flight.

I once too two earwigs to the Dept of Entomology in the Natural History
Museum, and the curaror was delighted that I'd brought them alive, not
pinned to a piece of card.

Both had pincers the same length as their abdomens, but I was told that
this was not unusual in island populations. These came from the Isle of
Lewis.

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Rusty
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