She had the intense maternal instinct and the brain, such as it is, of an earwig.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
521, 522. 3. Larva of earwig.
"On the Origin and Metamorphoses of Insects"
Sir John Lubbock
To give the thing a plausible look a few flies are added, and the two largest pans are finished off, one with a large earwig, the other with a thousand-legged worm.
"Woodcraft"
George W. Sears