I don't know why I haven't done so already, but I have never made the slightest effort to become an expert on a group of exceedingly common insects that belong to the Order Dermaptera. The so-called "earwigs, which are infamous for their supposed proclivity to seek out the human ear and burrow all the way to the human brain—the optimal nursery for their eggs... in science fiction, anyway—are all over the neighborhood, and while I have yet to suffer a cerebral invasion, I did, once, find one in my mouth, something about as unpleasant as can be imagined. With their prominent pinchers, they look dangerous, but they're too small to do any damage, so I suppose it's best to just leave them be and marvel at their cold-tolerance. That done, I should really start studying them and make an attempt to come up with a likely species. Really...