Dermaptera by KaToFel

Photography • Insects • posted on Jul 16, 2008

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These friendly insects sometimes get pulverized if someone suffers from pain in the ears or if someone (you? smile me) can not hear clearly what they say anymore. They belive, that such a magic pulver will bring instant releave. There is also a rumor, that these nice insects crawl into an ear during that time a given person sleeps and bites him/herself into the flesh of the inner ear-tunnel. The one you can see above is a typical normal size earworm (Ohr-Wurm, as we call them in Switzerland), but there are also some giant earworms among the ca. 1800 known species. A giant-earworm is about up to 80mm or ca. 3 inches long! He or she, crawles into the bigger type ears, such as the wing-ears of the Prince Charles from Great Braitain. If the Prince walks down the street, he closes all the shutters - personally - with his own big ears. Isnt that funny? Image Hosted by ImageShack.us

Comments (14)

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Fidelity2

1:45PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Wow. 5+.

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carlx

2:01PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Excellent close-up!!!

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flora-crassella

2:15PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

...möchtest Du Dich mit den "Royals" anlegen? Und warum machst Du unseren englisch-sprachigen "Foto-Genossen" solche Angst? Auf jeden Fall ist das ein ganz hervorragendes Foto von dem sehr nützlichen Ohrwurm!!!! ..ich gebe Dir auf dieses Foto auf jeden Fall Fünf von Fünf möglichen Punkten! PS: hat das niedliche Tierchen einen "persönlichen" Namen?

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durleybeachbum

2:28PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Hilarious narrative!! We call them 'Earwig'! An excellent macro. they are marvellous mothers.

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KaToFel

3:05PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

@ flora-crassella Ja, er heisst Ottfried.

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DeathTwister

3:32PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

Some people eat those for food, and some step on them as bugs, but did you ever think that maybe they are Aliens on Vacation? Hahh nice shooting Tex

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alida

4:26PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

i used to be scared by them............still a void them,if i can

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GBCalls

4:31PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

The earwig is not a friend to one who grows corn. Excellent capture

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Jay-el-Jay

8:54PM | Wed, 16 July 2008

I have heard that they actually get the name earwig because they are often found in ears of corn and that it is a mistaken belief that they crawl into peoples ears.A fine picture just the same.

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Leeco

12:06AM | Thu, 17 July 2008

Nice capture of this neat bug. Thanks for sharing. Lee

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zmarek

12:35AM | Thu, 17 July 2008

Very nice one -D. Super photo.

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skyla824

12:50AM | Thu, 17 July 2008

outstanding macro work

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lorandbartho

7:01AM | Thu, 17 July 2008

Excellent macro! I like these insects, in spite of all rumor--the scissors on the tail are harmless, though they might surprise one so that the insect will be released. (What is not so pleasant is that they sometimes come out from peach-stones directly ito your mouth.)

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