Help! Crickets everywhere!

[HueTheChameleon]

Hello,

My wife was very kindly cleaning up my office and knocked over one of my kricket keeper and released about 100 1/2" crickets into our home. I need advice on how to set a trap or something to recollect the crickets or something. All advice, stories of past failures/successes welcome!

Many thanks,

Hue the Chameleon

 

[HueTheChameleon]

I've closed the door to my office in the hopes of containing them.

 

[guanagator]

Tokay gecko, juvenile monitor.... In all seriousness it's a losing battle. You'll be finding them in strange places for weeks. At least it was only 100. In my experience they gravitate towards a water source I usually find escapees in the bathroom.

 

[wodesorel]

If you don't have other pets that roam, glue traps. They'll be unusable for feeding, but at least they won't be everywhere.

 

[jpowell86]

When this happened to me, I set a shallow bowl of water in the room(one that they could not climb back out of) and in the morning I would have ten or so crickets floating in the water. My bowl was stainless steel so they could not grip the surface!

 

[ChamDE86]

Crickets are brilliant escape artists and will find a way to get out of the room, We must call on all local chams to prepare for battle!

 

[SocialNumb]

Kill them fire. Torch your home and start over, it's the only way.

 

[MSMorgan]

Hue,

I'm sorry to hear of your dismay. I've haven't done it yet, but it's coming. My luck is horrible. Water bowls and sticky traps are good. To preserve thee little buggers, I've also head of folks putting down paper towel tubes, one end blocked, with a little chow or piece of carrot in one end. In the morning, check your traps and go from there.

 

[Lathis]

Kill them (with) fire. Torch your home and start over, it's the only way.

I just spit half-chewed cracker all over my desk. Thanks for the giggle

 

[JaniP]

Oh man, I'm sorry. No advice but that sucks.

 

[BayChams]

Crickets are brilliant escape artists and will find a way to get out of the room, We must call on all local chams to prepare for battle!

Yes we must!!!

 

[SocialNumb]

I just spit half-chewed cracker all over my desk. Thanks for the giggle

Darn time limit on editing. I do that a lot, skip words and read them as if they're there.

 

[dash1998]

I had this happen once and I had cricket corpses everywhere throughout my house.

 

[MissLissa]

Egg cartons work pretty well, if you sandwich them loosely together and put a piece of carrot or greens or damp paper towel between them.

Alternate Solution: Get a cat. My roommate's cat is our Official Cricket Killer. Since we've had her, we haven't seen or heard a cricket for more than 5-15 minutes! Then it's "Meow! crunch crunch crunch"

Other than that: nope, you are going to be hearing "crick-et, crick-et" for a while.

 

[HueTheChameleon]

So I closed the door and was considering refinishing the floors, so I went ahead and did that for the room outside of my office. Most of them got stuck in the polyurethane and very few made it out of that wing of the house. So many dead crickets.