Labidura riparia is a species of earwig in the family Labiduridae characterized by their modified cerci as forceps, and light tan color.

[2] Earwigs use these forceps to assist in predation, defense, sexual selection, courtship and mating, and wing folding.

[8] This unequal proportion is unique to this species compared to all other earwigs, and may have a relationship with the spermatheca location on females.

[9] They can be found in a variety of niches though, from cultured and uncultured farmlands, woodlands, and the margins of ponds and lakes.

[2][9] To save energy, the earwigs will occupy abandoned mole cricket burrows for brooding nests.

[9] Feeding habits of females depend more on their ovulatory cycle, and will go long periods of time without eating in preparation of egg laying.

[3][6][7] At this time the mother goes in search of food for her young, and continues feeding and grooming them until they leave the nest themselves 2–5 days later.

[3] Some females get lost returning to their brood and start caring for another individual clutch as they are not able to distinguish between their own young and another's.