Item

Earwigs and trap consisting of flower pot and straw

• 1920-08 (Creation)

Photograph; glass plate negatives; 5 x 7 in

Photograph showing earwigs on the ground next to a flower pot and a handful of straw used as a trap. A nearly identical photograph, image No. 376G0318, was one of five that were published on Page 3, Section 2, of the Oregon Journal on Sunday, August 15, 1920. The photographs accompanied a story about earwigs proliferating in the Walnut Park area of north Portland. The photographs were published under the headline “Invading Earwig Entomologist’s Game.” They had the following caption: “Journal photographer finds interesting pictures of insects that are overrunning lawns and gardens of Walnut Park district.” The story gave the following description about how the kind of trap shown in this image worked: “Tin cans or flower pots filled with excelsior or grass and inverted on a stake also attract hundreds of the bugs, and the following morning the assemblage is exterminated with a dose of hot water.” Also see related image Nos. 376G0319, 376G0320, and 376G0321.

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Oregon Journal Negative Collection; Org. Lot 1368; Box 376; 376G0322

• Insects
• Pest control
• glass plate negatives

• Oregon Journal (Firm) (Publisher)