We have a Cricket in our basement!!! ?

Question

And the worst part is I can't find it. It is somewhere in our laundryroom but it's sooo loud that we can hear it upstairs in our family room! It has been there for a few days and I need to know how to get rid of it before I go insane!!!! HELP!

Answer 1

Wait until the cricket dies and if that is taking too long you can find cricket poison at some pet stores and most hardware stores.

Answer 2

go look for it, do you have a frog? sick the frog on the pest, or you could just wait it out until the cricket dyes.

Answer 3

Wait until it dies or buy some poison from the pet store, since it has been a while.

Hope this helped=) Good luck!

Answer 4

Don't take this lightly. House crickets can survive in your house by feeding on things like carpet, clothes, wood, cardboard, or paper. Field crickets are less likely to do this but they can as well. Although they only have a lifespan of about three months, if that cricket manages to call in a female, you'll soon have a few hundred little flea-like things hopping around. I have listed two homemade solutions below.

Take a loaf of bread and cut it in half lengthwise. Hollow out the insides and cut two holes on each side that is level with the ground. Make sure the holes have a 1 inch diameter. Hold the two halves together with rubber bands. The cricket will be attracted to the food and shelter provided. Just shake the two halves out over a container.

Take a bowl and fill it partway with water, molasses, and lemon juice. Make ramps up to the bowl with paper, tape, or pieces of wood. The cricket will be attracted by the mixture, and fall in and drown.

Answer 5

Orientals take this as a sign of good luck

since you know nothing about this perspective you hate the cricket

they don't have such a long life span/you'll survive/it won't