How the heck do you get rid of &#@*%&# crickets? As I sit here at work (well at least at the computer at work) I am being serenaded by two invisible crickets. I have looked everywhere for the little bastards and as far as I can tell they are perfectly transparent.
Now I work out in the Thules so I can understand them being around outside. But WTF are they coming in here for? And WTF is that chirping? Mating calls? Telling the temperature? I wanna kill them all and to hell with the local ecosystem.
My problem is exacerbated by the fact I sleep at work while I’m up here. If one or two of Pinocchio’s friends get in where I sleep I can pretty much write the night off.
I know that those electronic gizmos are bunk and I can’t find them outright to spray them with a half of a can of Raid apiece. So help me. Please. What they’re doing to me is just not cricket…
(Sorry)
Okay, I probably shouldn’t be telling you this because people get up in arms about insecticides:
First, in June, July, and thru August, you need to treat the perimiter of your home (around the foundation) with a pesticide preferrably in a granual form. These are easily located at home improvement stores with the lawn fertilizers. (The chem name is Diazinon) The big fertilizer companies make these products (sometimes mixed with fertilizers, but available seperately)
Read the label directions. You will need to treat your lawn at one rate, and your foundation perimiter at a greater rate. It is a granual form that is most effective, and lasts weeks, thru weather, etc.
Inside your home, eliminate hiding spots (not always possible), and put lights on in the basement. Also, buy a liquid insecticide and treat the perimeter of the inside of the house.
This works. If you don’t have a ethical objection to using insecticides, go for it. Remember it’s multi-pronged attack: treat the lawn, garden beds, foundation perimeter, the inside of the house, etc…
I hate crickets. I don’t mind spiders and others because they just share my space - crickets are like annoying room mates.
I knew a guy who did a damn good cricket impersonation. Look around and see if someone is on the verge of bursting out laughing at you after you search for them.
Just wanna point out (the voice of experience) that if you’re haunted by crickets in the room where you are, you don’t have to spray the entire perimeter of the room to get rid of them. They move around a lot, so just do a couple spritzes here and there along the baseboards, especially under furniture, and that will get 'em.
