HOW do I KILL Crickets? (or trap em')

[Dom]

Alright .. I have hundreds of crickets in my room .. problem .. I own no insectivores..

MY lovely roomate with a guazillion chams goes through thousands of crix a week and many many many many escape and all end up downstairs in my reptile cages..

I have a loose very Fat Tokay .. but that is removing 0.0007392003% of my cricket population in my basement . I am pretty sure they are breeding in my monitor cage as well ...

So how do I get rid of em" .. either trap or kill .. don't matter to me .. there just becaming a big nuissance to me and the animals..

Thanks

The one, the only,

Dom

[V.hb]

fly paper works well. put a bit of lettuce in the center of it.

[Aqua_Elf]

yah sticky paper is the best option

[Emily-Fisher]

Get a chihuahua. I used to have loose house geckos in my room but later switched to chihuahuas...they are very effective!! She doesn't miss a single one.

[Vanan]

Or even a cat. Ours did a fine job.

[Trace]

NO CATS!!!!!

[Emily-Fisher]

What's wrong with cats, Trace? Sure, they almost killed my snake and devoured my best breeder mouse but other than that, what can go wrong? Teehee...just teasing you Trace ;) No I agree, cat's wouldn't be a good solution. Jordan has a loose white's treefrog in his reptile room who supposedly eats every loose cricket however I'm not sure exactly how he keeps the humidity level up.. You could try asking him.

[Matt_K]

try those sticky rodent paper things man. you can get em at wal mart etc. you just place them along the wall or whatever.. It seems all my escape's always hang out along the wall and they get stuck :) I have one in my speaker right now that i cant get at and its chirping something fierce..

[Vanan]

Ok no cats. We don't really have a problem as most of our herps are in room which is out of bounds (closed at all times) to the cats. And they know it! One step inside and it's a dunk in the tub.

[Dom]

tx .. all good suggestions .. but I got that best idea from Grant.. a shallow bowl with bleach ..



I HATE CRICKETS

[Dom]

ohh and cats can cause more harm then anthign else.. I am not a fan of cats but i loved my cat until he ran away last year.. no more cats ever now .. and I HATE dogs so no chiwawa wawa or whatever lol

[asphyxia]

Hey Dom

Just give up and go with it man.

I surrendered, now i just play new age "nature music", and pretend I am in a forrest, the snapper aquarium filter acts at the babbling brook.

Brian

[Tim and Julie B]

The only problem with bleach is that if the crix consume any, and get out and into a reptile cage then the reptile is in primo danger of eating the crix and becoming extremely ill. I would use pest strips with honey on them. Crix love honey!

[monitor boy]

well the best thing to do is spray the cage with proven't-a-mite as it does kill all bugs

[beth wallbank]

one word....... chameleon!!! lol...

[Youkai]

I agree with Matt K. I use sticky rodent traps. I don't fold them up, I lie them flat by the floorboards. I put them along the walls near cages, near the cricket bins, and the exit to the reptile room. I almost never, ever find one elsewhere in the house.

[Matt_K]

you can even place a little piece of lettuce or even some fish food flakes on the trap, they will be attracted to it and thus catching them :)

[Solid Snake]

Fly tape is probably the best. put them around the edges of your rooms or just randomly put'em anywhere.

I work in a chinese restataunt and we have had MANY roaches. I put alot of fly tape on the floors (everynight)and got like 1000 of'em, its naaaaaaasty! it took 3 weeks forem all to be killed.

[Gregg M]

I just let a couple of cheap little house geckos loose in the reptile room...... They eat all the escaped crickets and do pretty well on their own......

[Thomas]

I am never going into a chinese restaurant again! lol

[hudson]

Instead of bleach just use water, the crickets are drawn to it and once there in they can't get out and simply drown.