Silent Spring for the giant earwig?

[Fabian Haas]

Dear All,

thank you for all the informations on the Labidura herculeana. I will
collect it and prepare a webpage on my earwig site www.earwigs-online.de

It might sound extravagant: but does any body have, or know someone who
has, images of the earwigs alive, in his natural habitat. I do have
images of the museum specimens but images of living specimens would be
much more impressive. Naturally copyrights information will be given on
the webpage. I will also try to get hold of the Earwig stamp issued by
St. Helena. That again is a drawing, no photo.

Best
Fabian

alberto ballerio schrieb:
> According to P. and M. Ashmole (2000. St. Helena and
> Ascension Island: a natural history. Nelson, Oswestry
> 492 pp.) Labidura herculeana could be extinct due to
> the clearing of the Gumwood forest where the species
> lived (in the area of Horse Point), another cause of
> the alleged extinction could have been the competition
> with the introduced Scolopendra morsitans.
> They also report of recent findings (1995) of
> subfossil forceps.
> Best regards,
>                 Alberto Ballerio
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Dr. Fabian Haas, FRES
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart
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