The ants may very well be trying to keep the earwig population down, rather than harm your plants. If you allow the garden to dry somewhat, the earwig population will decrease. Diatomaceous earth is also a good control. I'd keep looking for other critters that might be doing the damage, too.

Insecticidal soaps work quite well on sawflies. You will need to make more than one application, of course.

Joellen, That is a nice one! But the price kind of took my breath away. It's half what I paid for my big compost tumbler out back. It certainly is nicer looking than my plastic container though. I've seen some at TJ Maxx and may have to look there again next time I'm over that way, which may be soon since TJ Maxx is my guilty pleasure :). Dawn, I spent a while trying to figure out what IPM stood for and never even got close. That's interesting. BG (before gardening) I'd have never understood why IPM was even necessary, lol. And speaking of pests, a couple of times lately I've seen a little cluster of white eggs about the size of a small pea on leaves. Does that sound familiar, and if so, are they eggs of good bugs or bad bugs? I don't know what to leave and what to remove, and don't want to automatically remove everything since some are beneficial. Suzie

"Maybe there is something to laissez-faire pest control, it all works itself out in the end? Or am I rationalizing being just plain lazy." I don't know, I really do think there is something to be said about letting things work themselves out. I originally had an aphid problem and leaving them alone let their population increase... Once their population got high, things that eat aphids said "Hey, get over here! It's a free lunch!". Now I have very few aphids. It's a bit hit or miss, obviously, but usually when nature sees an imbalance, it generally works itself out... Sometimes it needs a little help, but not much where I'm at, apparently.