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How to get rid of crickets in a house
How to get rid of crickets in a house.
Crickets are insects which live in dark and moistures places such as basements. Sometimes they can also choose your apartment or summer house as a place of living. If your apartment is on the ground floor, they can get in through the cracks or clefts. They feel themselves quite comfortably sharing your living place, unlike you. Sometimes one can have a cricket in a multistoried building somewhere on the upper floor. Most likely they came to you from your neighbors who keep house pets and use crickets as their food. Lizards, monkeys and some birds eat them.
It is difficult to get rid of crickets because there are no chemicals designed especially against them. Chemical against ants and cockroaches are often useless against crickets. Nevertheless there are several solutions of the problem.
1. Catch it.
We do not care about insects until they do not bother us. Crickets annoy us by sounds they emit. If you have them in your house, the simplest way (but not the easiest) is to catch a cricket.
They sleep in a day time but they actively move around the house at night. Try to catch it at night. To attract a cricket you may use a piece of watermelon.
2. Make the condition of their life unbearable.
Crickets usually choose humid places. In the apartment they usually live in a bathroom because it fits their habitat most of all. If you change the conditions in a bathroom or in the other place they live, the cricket will leave it or die. This method is simple and it will harm neither your family members, nor house pets. Heat the place where they live using an electric fan heater. The temperature should raise more than 40C. Be careful not to burn the whole house. Of course you get rid of crickets, but the price would be too high :-)
3. Do chemical attack.
You may try chemicals against cockroaches or sprays against flies. Just be aware of the fact that this can be dangerous and follow the instruction.
4.Use a biological weapon.
Buy a gecko. They eat crickets.
5. The very last advice.
If all offered above is good for nothing and you still have to share your apartments with unwanted neighbor- buy ear plugs or try to enjoy their songs! :-)
