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Earwigs put the "creepy" in creepy crawlies, with their scuttling legs and long pincers on their tails. Old wives' tales say these insects crawl into people's ears and burrow into their heads.
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How to Identify Different Types of Earwigs

With dozens of species found all over the world, you can find a variety of earwig around the home or out in the wilderness.
The world's largest flying insect has been discovered in China - and it's bigger than a human hand. The huge aquatic bug has a wingspan of 8.27 inches and has pincers as well as long teeth. After ...
Earwigs are equipped with some pretty imposing pincers on their rear, and they're not afraid to use them. But when it comes to these appendages, size isn't everything. 06/26/2018 ...
Researchers working in Brazil have discovered a new species of forcepfly with enormous genital pincers (right), bringing the total number of known species in this family to three.And in Costa Rica ...
Discover nature this week with Missouri's crayfish. While coastal lobsters are famous, their downsized relative, the crayfish ...
While the pincers pose no threat to mammals, their size enables pseudoscorpions to hitch a ride on larger mammals. “They’re sort of known as ‘nature’s hitch-hikers’,” says Graeme ...
Seven-centimetre-long lobster krill look like easy prey for 90-centimetre-tall gentoo penguins, but they don’t go down without a fight. Cameras mounted on the penguins to study their hunting ...