How I learned to love the evil-looking earwig

Your anxieties about fearsome earwigs slithering down your ear canal and into your brain are completely unfounded.

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Jason Bittel serves up science for picky eaters on his website, BittelMeThis.com. He writes frequently for Slate and OnEarth. And he's probably suffering from poison ivy as you read this.