Albino on black soil
Photo: Helen Arusoo
Translation: Liis
Earwig
There it was, in an old flower pot. In the used, now turned-out soil a snow-white insect scrabbled quickly towards the remaining clods of soil to hide itself. It was an earwig (Forficula auricularia), and because of its unusual colour the eyes seemed to bulge from its head. It got quickly documented with a camera that happened to be at hand, and then let out in the garden soil, where it should be gainfully employed with eating parasites that harm the berry bushes. It seemed that the lack of pigment had not disturbed its life at all. But then the earwig is a creature of dusk and dark.
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