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I observed a two-day old monarch caterpillar on a milkweed leaf. The next day the caterpillar was nowhere to be found, but an earwig was hiding nearby in a crevice formed by an emerging milkweed blossom. It could have eaten the caterpillar.

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14y ago

Oh yes , thousands and thousands of tiny little earwigs , and they love to lay eggs in a waxy area so the eggs will stick , were they got their name from .

Not 1000's and they lay their eggs in mulch, leaves or small cavities in the soil. They are one of the few insects that protect their eggs and even 'groom' them to keep fungus from growing on them which would ruin them.

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No, that would not make for effective reproduction.

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