Home Pest Control Indoor: Silencing The Cricket’s Chirp
March 29th, 2010 Posted in Pantry & Linen Pests
CHIRP. CHIRP. CHIRP. This isn’t the sound you’re interested in hearing while you read a book to your kids or while your laying on your sofa after work. Crickets make this awful and repetitive noise outside and inside your home.
Yet, you can stop this from continuing on and bring back silence in your once comfortable home. There are various means of home pest control that works indoors against crickets, therefore deciding which method is best for your home is essential.
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The Cricket Choir
Adult crickets prefer dark places during the daytime hours. You can find a cricket under a stone, in a bush, under a tree, hiding beneath a plant, or even in the dirt. The cricket tends to be most active during the evening hours, when males can attempt to attract female crickets.
The female cricket doesn’t make the chirps that the male does. The chirping noise a male field cricket makes is their mating call to all available female crickets in the immediate area. He has a heavy vein with a row of teeth under each of his wings.
The male cricket then rubs the two wings together to produce the chirp, much like running a fingernail along the teeth of a comb or the strings of a violin. The warmer the temperature that evening, the faster the cricket’s chirps become.
Conventional Cricket Control
Some conventional methods of cricket control either eliminate the cricket all together or prevent them from entering your home. Some prevention techniques include reducing the amount of lighting around the outside of your home and closing entry points.
Outdoor lighting attracts crickets in droves, both inside and outside your home. This lighting attracts the most amount of crickets during their mating season. Therefore, cricket control in the fall is vital to keep these noisy pests from breeding in mass amounts. Also, check for points of entry into your home, where you believe crickets or other household pests could easily enter.
By caulking and sealing these points of entry, you can help drastically reduce the amount of pests in your home. Conventional chemical pesticides and insecticides are also useful in dealing with the cricket, but most effective when used in conjunction with the prevention techniques described above.
Spraying these chemical pesticides and chemical insecticides along entry points into your home and around your home, will help prevent and eliminate the cricket, but may not be safe for pets and children to come in contact with. Prolonged exposure with chemical pesticides and insecticides is dangerous for the environment, animals, and people in general.
Organic Cricket Control
It is still possible to treat cricket and pest problems with insecticides and pesticides without risking harm to your pets or family, by simply using EcoSMART’s products. Home pest control products don’t have to be dangerous because EcoSMART’s products are made from all natural ingredients.
Since these products are made with natural ingredients, they are safer for the environment, your pets, and most importantly your family. EcoSMART’s pest control for the home is engineered to target receptors only found in insects like the cricket, leaving all other bystanders unaffected.
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By Erin F. on Mar 29, 2010
I have just discovered that the beautiful, albeit small, organic vegetable garden I have started is having all its seedlings eaten away by black crickets. As we clean up the garden a few dozen seem to be hiding in every nook and cranny! I want to keep my veggies organic and I don’t want to be eating pesticide. Help! I want to be one of your testers!
By Ivan Romero on Apr 27, 2010
I have a cricket living in my duct work. It is driving us crazy but I do not want to use something that can potentially be poisonous to my family. I have been looking for something that will be safe because of my situation. Being a tester would be awesome!
By Bill Bird on May 30, 2010
My room is in the basement and crickets are always finding their way in and drive me crazy. Ear plugs don’t help, and sleep is rare. I would be a great tester.
By Sonja Belanger on Jun 14, 2010
With 4 little pom pom dogs running around outside, I can’t spray anything toxic around to kill the little buggers but they drive me BONKERS! My husband actually bought me a sound machine so I could drowned out the sound of the chirping all night! Please help me sleep but being one of your testers!
By Brittney on Jul 10, 2010
I’d love to be a tester! We have tons of crickets in our backyard, and I think they’ve grown immune to our traditional pesticides! Help!
By Courtney on Jul 24, 2010
We have an cricket invasion here in orange grove, tx. They are in the thousands it seems.
By Ty on Jul 30, 2010
I live in the Phoenix, AZ area and crickets are abundant here. I have had my home sprayed with pesticide the last four months inside and out, but this usually only works well for the first two weeks. I have two dogs and would like to stay green.
By Scott on Aug 9, 2010
I live out in the country, and crickets keep getting into my house. i cant sleep or really do anything because they are driving me crazy. Please help. Anything to get rid of them. I would love to be a tester! Thanks!
By Sharon on Aug 13, 2010
I have an older home and am chemically senitive, so I would love to be a tester
By Rebecca on Aug 17, 2010
Recently, I washed my outside deck and stirred up a nest of hundreds of crickets. Seriously, while I was washing they climbed up the wall and COVERED IT! Now they are coming in my home in droves. These noisy things keep the 2 kids awake at night therefore making the next day so pleasant. Here is the issue with pesticides, 2 kids that get into everything and 2 elderly or sick cats. There is no way I can risk their health! Being a tester would mean a decent nights sleep for all those involved and healthy cats…. sign me up
By Yelena F. on Aug 26, 2010
I absolutely lost my sleep: with warm weather the windows are open and crickets’ noise is unbearable. We have an outside kitty of senior age – conventional chemical pesticides and insecticides are not really an option. Would like to test anything EcoSMART!
By Sandra Hadley on Aug 26, 2010
I have 137 trees in my yard. In August the crickets are so loud it is not comfortable to sit in my beautiful backyard in the evening. Late August and September is the perfect time of year to enjoy the backyard if it wasn’t for the NOISY crickets… HELP!
By omar ramos on Sep 5, 2010
When i moved downstairs to my basement it was all well and fine until about 3 weeks in and bam! i heard it and was like ok ill kill it in the morning then i found out there are tons of these things. i have since then cleaned out my house but cant seem to keep them away from my basement door. but im ready for the cricket season to be over .
By Jeff Burhan on Sep 23, 2010
I’m so annoyed with the cricket sound indoor. I would like be a tester.
By Michael Grady on Sep 25, 2010
There’s a cricket outside my living room window and one outside my bedroom window and they chirp all day and night. I want them gone!
By Chris Kong on Oct 27, 2010
I’ve been having problem sleeping due to this cricket non stop chirping just above my ceiling…i’ve been using insect sticker and a few other product but to no success…please i’m dying try EcoSMART.
By sam sabio on Nov 6, 2010
OMG! we have an investigatory project about black bugs and it’s so hard to invent a killer.. :l some help please? black bugs are large bugs that is very hard and cant be easily squeezed. they like munching plants , mostly palay-(rice crops) rice crops are very important here in the philippines for rice crops give us food. WHAT SHOULD I INVENT?? i cant make sprays because this can also kill not just the bugs but also the plants..
By sam sabio on Nov 6, 2010
thanks ECOSMART. your suggestions are very clear and isn’t a ‘money-waste’ . i’ll try some of your suggestions for i really need this.
By sam sabio on Nov 6, 2010
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By Kristel B-B on Jun 17, 2011
I’ve got a little bugger (or maybe several) that is in a crack between the moulding and the floor, running all along one wall. He seems to run back and forth in there all night and all day. I don’t know how he does it but he never seems to sleep. At first it was kind of neat but now I’m sick of it. There are many outside but it’s the inside ones that are killing me. I would love to test this product!
By Kerri on Jul 9, 2011
Behind our house is a big corn field, but inside out fenced yard is MILLIONS of tiny black and white crickets! Please help!!!
By Bradley on Jul 26, 2011
I would absolutely love to be a tester. Every year we have crickets get in our house and drive us nuts. It seems like everything we do, from sealing off entryways to spraying pest control, doesn’t keep them from finding a new place to hide and chirp. My wife and I have contemplated selling our house because of this issue. Again, would LOVE to try this out. Thanks!
By Christine on Aug 1, 2011
My mom is terrible afraid of crickets, and every summer we are inundated by them. Recently she has resorted to using pesticides to control problem, including spraying underneath the living room sofa. I really want to show her that there are other options out there.
By Alise McDuffie on Aug 25, 2011
Hello, I live in Las Vegas, Nevada and there seems to be a cricket invasion around my home. I am seeing several crickets in the house everyday and their chirping at night drives me crazy! They are all over outside. I have a small child and would love to test your product! Thank You
By Greg Sindberg on Sep 1, 2011
The crickets outside our bedroom window are driving us nuts. If you are still looking for testers, we’d be honored.
By Mark on Sep 11, 2011
ok lets test
By Sean Maguire on Sep 24, 2011
No sleep, in my walls….going mad. Please help. I’ll test!!!
By Tamara Parson on Oct 1, 2011
Every day this week I have been awakened in the middle of the night by a LOUD cricket,or my kids complaining about seeing and/or hearing one in the house. Don’t know what to do! Tester?? Yes, please!