It's been a long climb...

We photographed this little creature at lunchtime today in the full sun.

Yes it is an Earwig. There are some interesting facts about the creatures here

This one is certainly out of character in it's behaviour, most of the information including the BBC site referenced above say...

"Earwigs rest during the day inside damp crevices such as under bark or in hollow plant stems. They are scavengers and emerge at night." Not so this one...

And what a climb it has had, at least five feet to the top of our Verbena. I hope it thought it was worth it!

As readers will know I have do battle with the earwigs every year when they start eating our young sprouting dahlias but according to the RHS site here they are also partial to other flowers!

They do however have a positive side in that they eat many small insect pests and their eggs.

We also photographed this one when processing our hazelnuts... 

after the weevil larva we assume, it appeared dead, perhaps it got stuck after a gorging on the larva! It was not the only one like this...