Who is a tadpole? Does she bite?

In the spring, many of you probably saw thesescary to the sight of insects. They are called twins for a specific appearance - and indeed, in the back of the insect there are two tail-probes similar to stings. Therefore sometimes they are called in common parlance by pinchers. Is not that why the popular belief that the bush bites ?!

First, we'll figure it out - the official namesuch an insect is an ordinary earwig. It belongs to the order of the Cochinose, has facetted eyes, oral organs directed forward, and a pair of antennae. The body of the insect is elongated: it has pliers on the end, but its wings are short. It has nothing to do with real twins, but for some reason it is customary for us to call this creature that way. Why is it still believed that the bipedal bites?

Basically, because of its appearance, it isan insect does not belong to the category of beautiful. Moreover, in many it causes only disgust. Because often parents in their childhood tell their children that the bipedal bites, so that the child does not draw his hands to such a creepy insect, and certainly did not seek to bring such a pet from the street to the apartment.

But in adult life for many earwig and herimaginary bites are a vivid example of a proverb that fear has eyes large. It is not uncommon among summer residents and holidaymakers to tell stories about giant blisters that allegedly left on the body a twig, whose bite is painted almost as deadly. If you see the track from him in the photo, it looks really scary. But if you look at the essence of the question, you will actually find out that the bipartite bite is extremely rare and completely painless. And those huge skin lesions that are taken for her bite, in fact, only an allergic reaction to the components of her saliva. Such reddening in many people is not uncommon, but it is enough just to turn to a specialist, so that he prescribed a drug for allergy - and the problem is solved.

Уховертки не являются хищными насекомыми.Their oral organs are not designed to bite people. In nature these insects live in vegetable gardens and are fruit and vegetable pests. They gnaw on leaves, fruits, flowers and unripe plant seeds. Also, it is not uncommon for earwigs to live on apiaries or in forest hives. There they settle in interstitial space or in a warming hive material and feed on honey, bees and perga. This, by the way, sometimes is the cause of the person's allergic reaction to the earwig. These insects lead mostly nocturnal life. Among earwigs there are several species that are predatory or parasitic, but they are not found in our country.

So if you see this insect, do notfrighten and do not frighten, of course, children. Do not try to get rid of it, unless you "revenge" for a spoiled crop. Just try not to pay attention to it, drive it off the body if it climbed on your leg or arm. Remember that the only correct answer to the question is whether the twins are biting - of course, negative.