Beneficial Insects
	Earwigs. Many earwigs, especially the striped earwig, prey upon insects such as chinch bugs, small mole crickets, sod webworn's and other insects that live on the soil surface. This large species is 3/4'' to 1'' long and brown, with longitudinal dark stripes on the thorax and wings. In laboratory experiments this earwig commonly consumed 50 chinch bugs a day.