{"id":13960,"date":"2026-04-10T19:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13960"},"modified":"2026-04-10T19:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T19:30:10","slug":"how-to-get-rid-of-earwigs-with-one-simple-ingredient-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13960","title":{"rendered":"How To Get Rid Of Earwigs With One Simple Ingredient"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"210\"><strong data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"210\">Seeing more earwigs around your home or garden this year? You\u2019re not alone \u2014 and one simple trick is going viral.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"434\">While earwigs are mostly harmless, many homeowners want an easy way to keep them away. One Facebook user shared a surprisingly simple method: placing a shallow bowl filled with olive oil outside in the garden or on a deck.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"436\" data-end=\"571\">Within 24\u201336 hours, the trap reportedly caught dozens of earwigs, making it a cheap and easy solution people are now trying themselves.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"573\" data-end=\"649\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/17.0.2\/svg\/1f449.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udc49\" \/>\u00a0A simple home hack that could help reduce earwigs fast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Seeing more earwigs around your home or garden this year? You\u2019re not alone \u2014 and one simple trick is going viral. While earwigs are mostly <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=13960\" title=\"How To Get Rid Of Earwigs With One Simple Ingredient\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13962,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13960\/revisions\/13962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}