There are crickets everywhere in my house!!!

[napoleon2411]

just felt like sharing!

 

[Triceros]

maybe share some pics of this cham gold?

 

[Rottsko]

Omg! That's sux. Crossing my fingers that it never happens to me.

 

[napoleon2411]

next time i find one (which won't be too long) i shall take a picture. last one i found was next to my bath...

 

[ChameleonFan1989]

LMAO oh dear

How did they get all over? When a few of mine escape, my dog eats them, so problem solved LMAO

 

[napoleon2411]

well... we aren't really sure... but we think its the new box of crickets we bought. the tub is different and doesnt open or shut very well... so think there might have been a gap and... the rest is history!

 

[ChameleonFan1989]

LOL

Think you can buy some cricket trap things, there sticky and attracks loose crickets. Bit like stuff you use to catch flies.

 

[napoleon2411]

i will definitely invest! cheers!

 

[ChameleonFan1989]

Saw you're from the UK, livefoods sells insect traps

http://www.livefoods.co.uk/product_info.php/bug-trap-large-p-594

 

[suzi]

I have had quite a few gaps myself! I can easily catch 20 a day lol

 

[carol5208]

lol! Reminds me of the first time I ever got an order of crickets. My daughter was home and I had instructed her to open the box and put them in a 10 gallon tank I had out on my patio. They were 1/4 inch. so I get home and I look in the tank and out of 500 crickets there are 14 in the tank! We had tried to save money and used a tank that was missing one side of glass which we replaced with cardboard. Crickets can climb cardboard we soon found out! Even though I had a screen lid they managed to get out of this little gap between the cardboard and the top! They were everywhere! Most of them were smart enough to escape outside under the door so out of 500 we retrieved like 60!

 

[Goldenarcher1328]

Could be something terrible.. like children..or democrats.

 

[Goldenarcher1328]

LMAO oh dear

How did they get all over? When a few of mine escape, my dog eats them, so problem solved LMAO

My cat was hunting them earlier.. till she threw them down a grate and was upset. Not the smartest animal ever...

 

[Sticktongue]

Just picked up about 10 adults.. silly me forgot to close th lid all the way..

 

[gratefulj]

.... am I missing something.. I don't even use a lid.. so far no escapes.. now I'm worried though

 

[Elizadolots]

gratefulj, if your sides are slick, they don't really climb. The smaller ones climb better than the bigger ones, but even they aren't great with glass or smooth plastic, so no lid is probably fine. It sure makes the ventilation thing easy to accomplish.

 

[Canny Chams]

shit, i had the same problem, actually i have, but it used to be worse, there are crickets everywhere, basement, living room, even in the heat vents i find them, they are everywhere, i keep them in 2 completely sealed 65 quart bins and they still get out. I bought a tokay gecko that i just let walk around whereever the hell he wants, he eats alot of the crickets, its a good help but ive gotten near him without knowing a couple times and got bit on the toes

 

[TyggyToo]

..... I bought a tokay gecko that i just let walk around whereever the hell he wants, he eats alot of the crickets, its a good help but ive gotten near him without knowing a couple times and got bit on the toes

LMAO

I've considered getting a house gecko. Someone talk me out of it.

Submitted for your consideration,
Tyg

 

[DanSB]

This is funny because I read this post yesterday and after thinking how much it sucks to have random crickets wandering around I had a little accident.

I use plastic 8 cup food storage bin for crickets as I only go through about 20 a week. I bought crickets yesterday an last night dropped the bin. Everywhere! I killed 3 caught about 8 and set the cats loose in the room to find the rest. They only got 2 so far.

I used to work at a pet store years ago and we specifically let house Geckos loose to clean up stray feeder bugs. Then they started breeding free range in the store too and became a bit of a pest. The Gecko trick definitely works for stray crickets but try to only release one gender unless you want a Gecko infestation!

 

[kokom05lb]

LOL when we have loose crickets my son will go crazy! He hasnt figured out the difference between a cricket and a spider yet so when he's down the hall you can hear me yelling "Mommy! Mommy spiders!"