Earwigs have only been an occasional issue for me, and never particularly troublesome. Since they consume dead plant material, like dead tree leaves and rotting branches, I suspect that their routine foraging around my place always leads them to the copious bounty of unraked leaves and brush piles.
Earwigs, like ants and many other insects are dead-end foragers. By that, I mean that each of them follow a random path until they reach a dead end. Then they backtrack, and try a different random path. Once one of them identifies a generous food source, some species go back and tell their friends, while others just pig-out and establish their private little, secret kingdoms. I think that with tobacco, there are alkaloid maxima that deter most. So they focus on flyers and trash, and sometimes bottom lugs.
Then there are all the predators of earwigs around here: birds, centipedes, wasps and spiders (the last of which are well established in my curing shed).
You can always spray permethrin near the anchor points to which your hanging rigs attach.
Bob
They know where to find the best food sources.
