Coleus: Holes. Whats eating my cuttings?, 1 by pirl

pirl wrote:
You have taken cuttings I hope!

Remove affected leaves and wash the plants with insecticidal soap (wear gloves) before you bring them inside.

You can use a hollowed out orange, grapefruit, lemon, etc. at the foot of the plant (instead of newspapers) and the earwigs will flock to it at night. The problem comes in when you remove the shell of the fruit, or the newspaper, in the morning. The earwigs will scurry away (in all directions at the same time) and, unless there's just one, you won't be able to catch them as they drop from the lure.

Ortho's Bug Geta Plus is excellent at controlling earwigs but has to be used regularly.