Help!!!!! I've got crickets!!!

[Karen]

Traditionally, crickets are good luck! I'm sure the cats think so, anyway!

[RICHARD]

Oh LOL,

I saw one in my house last night....I think a crickey in the hearth is good luck too!!!!

[K9karen]

The lightening speed critters always venagle their way into my basement. Found one yesterday in the dryer sitting on a towel. Logan's fascinated by them too. I won't kill anything that brings me good luck! They die on their own in the house anyway.

[Catty1]

Donna - my concern with spraying for them is that one of your kitties might find a dead one, and make it a source of protein with a nasty chemical in it that might cause harm.

Is there such a thing as a 'cricket trap', like the roach motels? Or a harmless live trap with bait, so they can be released into the wild again?

[gini]

You will all think I am nuts - but so be it. I just rescued a cricket in my office. He was actually a very healthy speciman.

I happened to have a jar in my office and I told him, "if you will jump into this jar, I will take you outside." He jumped into the jar right away, he was taken outside and my good luck continues.

Thank you Mr. Cricket!!

[jennielynn1970]

I am so not a cricket fan. They look too much like waterbugs to me. Blech! Haven't had crickets here, although I think I'd prefer them to the water bugs I get in the basement when it gets damp.

[RICHARD]

I happened to have a jar in my office and I told him, "if you will jump into this jar, I will take you outside."

When you wish upon a star!!!!

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Don't tell me you put him into the jar you keep by your desk!?!

Sometimes Gini's boss won't let her go to the rest room!

[Catlady711]

Every year about this time I get a TON of crickets in my basement. They don't just stay there either, they crawl up the heat registers and get all over my house. I keep finding them in my clothes, and I've been told they EAT clothes!

I don't believe in Chinese folklore, or any other folklore that says I should welcome crickets in my house. If crickets did, in fact, bring prosperity, then I should have surpassed Bill Gates in finances years ago.

I squish the buggers as fast as I find them, or at least hopfully faster than they can dive under my hot water heater. ewwww