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Pretty much everyone I know grew up with an unholy fear of earwigs.
The evil-looking pincers on the insect's tail were said to deliver a sting worse than a bee. And the creature's long, slender body was supposedly ideal for slinking down the human ear canal and burrowing into the brain. Get an earwig in the ear, they said, and you'd go deaf. But an earwig in the brain, well… you could wind up dead by morning.
Of course, like nearly everything I learned about nature before the internet — all bears hibernate, daddy long legs are the most venomous spiders, porcupines can shoot their...
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original post: http://theweek.com/article/index/260340/how-i-learned-to-love-the-evil-looking-earwig
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