How to Get Rid of Crickets

The sound of crickets chirping the night is not a strange experience in the summer season. However, when these crickets decide that your home is going to be their home as well, then you have to take firm action. These bugs can eat into most anything – right from your clothes to your wallpaper and sometimes even wood. Of course, the persistent chirping is not quite conducive to lazy summer afternoon naps, is it?

Here are some tips and ideas for ensuring that the cricket insects do not become a permanent part of your family:

• First and foremost know that crickets love to live in tall grasses and moist areas thick with foliage. Ensure that the area around your house and in your yard is not a wonderful breeding ground for these cricket insects. As soon as they like your yard, they will want to check out your house as well. So mow the lawn and ensure that you have plants at least 12 inches away from your walls.
• But of course, when you throw away the debris, ensure that you have raked it a long distance away from your home.
• If you have open garbage pails close to your home, then seal them or shut them well. Place or keep your garbage pails at some distance from your home. Crickets love these places and will come by for a visit.
• The next thing to consider is the cracks in your walls. Seal the cracks, especially those which will allow those bugs to crawl into your home. Use screens in places you can’t seal.
• Crickets also gather in drains and gutters on your roof. So keep these places clean during the summer months.
• Another thing to consider is the outdoor lighting of your home. These bugs are also attracted to the light. So change from bright lights to low level lights.
• There are also a variety of cricket control sprays and pest control products in the market. But, please check the labels before you buy for some of the ingredients might be toxic. This is important, especially if you are allergic to those ingredients or if you have a baby at home.
• You can get a variety of cricket baits also in the market. A simple cricket bait you can make at home is: Fill up a clean glass jar with a mixture of water and molasses. Then place this open jar in a place where you have seen a number of these cricket insects. Soon, they will get attracted to this solution and will try to feed on it. And while doing so, they will drown in this mixture.

Of course, if all else fails you can call a pest control company for getting rid of these crickets.

So take all these preventive measures before the onset of summer and ensure a cricket free season!