Crickets Have Invaded

[JoeyGee]

How do I get rid of crickets in my house? We are killing 4-5 a day in our basement.

[siliconbauhaus]

I just try to catch ours and take them outside mate. With 4 or 5 a day you should be playing the lottery as they're meant to bring good luck.

[dlminehart]

Buy an anole lizard at the pet store. Green, sometimes called American chameleons. Really cheap, and they love crickets.

[herb fellows]

Of course, when he's eaten/chased away the crickets, you'll have to go buy him some more!

[Richard in Smithville]

Buy an anole lizard at the pet store. Green, sometimes called American chameleons. Really cheap, and they love crickets.

I realize the tongue in cheek involved in this response but....never feed your lizard a wild caught bug. You never know just what it has come in contact with.

[Crash2510]

I realize the tongue in cheek involved in this response but....never feed your lizard a wild caught bug. You never know just what it has come in contact with.

I know that is what a lot of people think, but it is often perfectly safe to feed your animals wild caught insects as long as you do not live by nearby fields where they spray herbicides. If it wasn't safe to feed an anole, which eats about anything, wild caught insects you wouldn't find them in the wild and all over houses. This is said because anoles are native to much of the united states and are most often wild caught.

[Stytooner]

I've got hundreds of them around here. I rarely see any crickets. Mostly under stuff when moved. Outside of course. Tree frogs live on our windows in the evenings. Catching bugs that come to the light. Probably have at least a dozen big garden spiders as well. All natural pesticide.

[TB Roye]

I use crickets around my house for Trout bait in the fall. Will be going up to my favorite Trout lake the end of the month and have a field day catching my limit. Works every year when they drop the level to make way for snow runoff. It is not emptied but lowered enough you can get to the deep holes with out a boat and you just float them on the surface with clear bobber filed with a little water for weight almos like fly fishing. Usually catch a nice limit of good sized fish.


Tom

[ironhat]

The little suckers get into my shopby slipping under the garage door bottom seal and migrating to the ends. Then, when I open the door they bolt around the door track and escape behind the cabinets. This year I used the sticky mouse traps, placing them in the middle of cricket highway. Unfortunately, the smallest ones got around the track without opening the door and got stuck, quickly making stepping stones out of their bodies which allowed the larger ones to dance across, scott-free. Your situation is entirely different so, this is post is useless to you. LOL!

[cabinetman]

Put up ity bity signs around the house that say "NO ADMITTANCE".
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[Pappy]

Never tried it, but have heard that spreading powdered laundry soap around the house will keep them out.

[Mr__Bill]

Living in an area with very few crickets I have to ask, why do you not want these charming and harmless guests in your home and shop?

[jrnewhall]

Living in an area with very few crickets I have to ask, why do you not want these charming and harmless guests in your home and shop?

It's probably because of the noise. Give him the same instructions you posted on my question about keeping the noise from getting out of my shop.

~JRN

[scmhogg]

When we first moved into our present home, we were sure that they built our house on a crickets nest. They were everywhere. What I hated the most was a chirper in the bedroom at night. When I jumped up, trying to find the GD thing it would stop chirping. Just as I would be falling asleep the little bugger would start up again.

We had an infestation of tree frogs a couple of years after we moved in. They were a lot louder than the crickets. But the crickets " mysteriously" disappeared. The frogs didn't come back the next year. Looks like the lamb's blood really works.

Steve