Do cardboard boxes attract crickets?

Question

i have a lot of boxes in my garage,we've had a pest guy out before and i noticed we didn't have a cricket problem until more and more plain cardboard boxes started piling up now theres always ugly house crickets in there no matter how much i spray,and big spiders are sneaking in now too..could it be the boxes luring them in?

Answer 1

Yes, the boxes carries dust mites..it attracts al kind of bags.

Answer 2

just cardboard box probably wouldn't be of much interest to a cricket or a spider, but "lots of" them form a habitat, and an undisturbed habitat is often where such animals aggregate. some kinds of cardboard taste good to some animals such as silverfish and cockroaches, so they may feed and breed there. crickets like, and can live on just apple for some time, so apple-boxes might increase the visitors. if you really don't want such nice little things in the garage, get rid of the boxes -  "spray" is bad for most lifeforms, including people.

Answer 3

Most definitely.  If you've ever been in a store that sells live crickets, you'd find that they feed them cardboard.  Crickets eat vegetation and cardboard is made from wood so it makes a tasty snack for them.

Answer 4

want to get rid of them?  first of all, remove that beautiful house you made for them. (all of those boxes!)

then you can lay out some lettuce and whatnot with a touch of pesticide on it.  they nip at the lettuce, digest the poison and die.