Earwigs eat aphids and several other harmful pests as well as hosta leaves. Some gardeners put up with the damage and leave the earwigs in the garden to control other pests. You can control earwigs with traps. Place a piece of crumpled paper under a flowerpot or use a tube of paper or bamboo as a trap.
In optics, refraction is a phenomenon that often occurs when waves travel from a medium with a given refractive index to a medium with another at an oblique angle. At the boundary between the media, the wave's phase velocity is altered, usually causing a change in direction.
Image by Flickr.com, courtesy of Jule_Berlin. In relation to your eyes, refraction refers to how light waves bend as they pass through your cornea and lens. Your eye's ability to refract light determines its ability to focus light, which establishes how well you see. Your eye has a refractive error if it cannot focus an image sharply. Determining the lens prescription needed to correct the error is called a refraction or refraction assessment. Your eye's ability to refract light depends on the overall length of the eye and the curvature of the eye's surface (cornea).