Most of you know that earwigs do not in fact crawl into people's ears at night. So where, when they're not hiding under threshholds or bits of plastic sheeting in the basement or between coiled grounding wires and the wall ditto, do they crawl into?
It turns out they crawl into the stem cavities of stone fruit, to wit the peach that was sitting on the counter, and thence into the stone itself, should it have cracked open during ripening. Then, when you're cutting the peach up to eat over cottage cheese for lunch, they crawl back out again.
Maybe it's as much like an ear as an insect can find and still get a few days of peace and quiet.