earwig facts

Animal:

K What I know	W What I want to know	L What I learnt
It moves with its 6 legs it has sharp pincers it is a earwig	is there more than one kind of earwig? do they have enemies? what are they made for? do they live in other places? what do they eat? do they have other earwigs that they help?	There are more than 2,000 species of earwigs. Earwigs eat mold,insects leaves,flowers and fruits. Earwigs hide during the day and live outdoors in large numbers they can be found under piles of lawn clippings compost or in tree holes. they enter homes from cracks in walls. Earwigs can’t spread disease but can be scary to look at.

                                       Excellent Earwigs

                    what they eat

Earwigs eat flowers,leaves,mold,other insects and large cockroaches

                                                    Habitat

Earwigs hide during the day and live outdoors in large numbers.They can be found under piles of lawn clippings compost or in tree holes

                          why earwigs are called earwigs

The name "earwig" is generally said to originate from an old European belief that earwigs crawl into people's ears and lay eggs in the brain. This etymology is given by the Oxford English Dictionary, which states unequivocally that the name is derived from Old English éare, "ear", and wicga, "insect", "from the notion that it penetrates into the head through the ear." Earwigs do tend to prefer being in hidden places, and this etymology parallels the unambiguous French name perce-oreille ("ear piercer"). Another hypothesis is that the word comes from the Late Latin auricula, owing to the ancient use of pulverized earwigs as medicine to treat diseases of the ear. A third explanation is that it is an alteration of "ear-wing", after the shape of the hind wings when unfolded.

Glossary: etymology=the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history.

unequivocally = the study of the origin of words and the way in which their meanings have changed throughout history

unambiguous =not open to more than one interpretation.: "instructions should be unambiguous"