A member of the gardening community has shared a shockingly simple hack to keep your garden and home free of earwigs this summer.
Author and master gardener Susan Mulvihill (@SusansInTheGarden) posted the trick to YouTube, showing you can accomplish this task using only vegetable oil, soy sauce, and a perforated container.
The scoop
The hack, like the mind of an earwig, is simple.
All a gardener needs is a small plastic container, vegetable oil, soy sauce, and a garden in which to place their Mulvihill's "secret weapon." Her instructions are as follows.
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First, choose your container and puncture the lid with quarter-inch holes. These will allow the aroma to escape and the prey to enter.
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Next, bury the container in your garden so that the top of the receptacle sits level with the topsoil.
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Finally, pour in at least two inches of vegetable oil and add a dash of soy sauce before placing the lid on the container.
"Earwigs are attracted to the smell of the soy sauce," Mulvihill explains. "They climb in through the holes of the lid, fall into the oil, and drown."