Possible Clues:

• Insect with antennae and pincers
• Strawberry-patch bane
• It's an insect, I wager
• Listen secretly, for example, around American leaders retweeting wrong information
• Insect; eavesdrop
• Insect with pincer-like tail
• The little nipper has hair - not his own - under his lug
• Crop-eating insect
• Has the little nipper got hair over his ears?
• I grew agitated holding a small insect