My house is infested. My house is infested with crickets. Or rather, my house is infested with sprickets, which Wikipedia tells me is what people call them because they look like combination of a spider and a cricket. Officially, they are a camel or cave cricket.
Mostly they are in our bathroom closet. Right now, however, there are two right here next to me in my office. Deb is afraid of them, mostly because they jump toward things when they're frightened. I think they look like like those aliens in the coffee room in Men In Black.
These crickets are harmless, except for scaring Deb when she goes to the bathroom in the middle of the night. But they're so harmless, I guess, that the cat could care less about them. He just went up to one, sniffed it, and then whined for me to let him out. Pathetic.
We can't figure out where these guys are coming in from. We searched the bathroom for holes, but couldn't find anything. There's only one hole in my office and it just leads into the wall, not the crawlspace under the house, which is where we think they're coming from.
Anyway, if this keeps up, I'm going to have to invent a humane cricket trap. I wouldn't want to kill them before I throw them outside into the snow.
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banjo is not let outside till he kills a quota of 15 spider crickets per day.
Do you know what a cave cricket "is?"
This is how Dave Matthews introduces DMB's "Ants Marching" on VH1 Storytellers. The story is incredible. Do what you have to do, download, purchase, bootleg, youtube, whatever, and listen to this story.
Make sure it starts with "You know what a cave cricket is?"
And you won't be dissapointed.
The best thing to treat camel crickets (Sprickets) is Demon WP Insecticide. Spray cracks and crevices around the room. They really like basements, closets and crawl spaces. i see them alot in abandoned warehouses too. You can get Demon Insecticide at www.allpestexpress.com Works great on Crickets and Spiders too.
My extermination method: buy mouse glue traps at the dollar store. Place them between washer/dryer or anywhere else the sprickets hide. Check, dispose, and replace as necessary. Eliminates the need to use poisons in your home. :)
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