Question: Escaped crickets

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I have a problem with escaped crickets.I picked up a box of crickets a couple of weeks back,and they were the noisy ones instead of the silent,and a few of them have escaped.
These escapees are driving myself and my good lady crazy with their chirping at night.
I have laid a sticky trap at the back of my fridge,one in the hallway ,and one in the bathroom.
When i hear them chirping i go on my hands and knees with a torch and cannot see them although i can hear them under the carpet/or floorboards,moving from room to room.
I did manage to stomp on one on the way to the toilet at about 10pm one night,so i'm assuming they do come out of the floor and go wondering for food, i should mention my bathroom floor has been ripped up to be replaced so it's just floorboards at the moment.

Last night i opened all the windows and doors overnight to let the cold air circulate and hopefully kill them off,except it's not that cold here at the moment.This did greatly quiet them down,but not greatly enough to get rid of the problem
Any help appreciated
 
I would maybe leave an orange slice by the sticky trap?
 
This is why I don't keep small reptiles anymore. Try leaving a slice of potato or fruit as Hayden suggested near the traps. Good luck...
 
A book I have recommends leaving tall containers with fruit and yeast or beer in warm places (like behind the fridge), or if you know where they are, hoovering them.
 
Do you know which specie? (black or brown ones) The brown ones (Acheta domesticus) can cause an infestation if conditions are right. Chances are small though, but I know a couple of people who had this problem whole summer.
 
Do you know which specie? (black or brown ones) The brown ones (Acheta domesticus) can cause an infestation if conditions are right. Chances are small though, but I know a couple of people who had this problem whole summer.

These are the brown type (now I am worried) how did they prevent /stop this?
My bathroom had a leak so we had to lift the flooring,so at the moment it's bare floor boards so the cricket(s) hide in the cracks of the floor boards so I cannot get to them.
I bought the cricket's about a month ago and they have been chirping for about 2 weeks,I know they are behind the skirting boards and under the floor I have left out bated trap's but they have proved unsuccessful.
The cold morning's are coming to an end also,so no hope for them dyeing off ,i caught one a week ago and it's a brown 2nd instar but their cannot have been more than 4 or 5 escaped my Girlfriend is bending my ear ever so slightly lol.
 
When winter came they disappeared, Allas they had them crawling around whole summer. When the crickets can reach wet dirt they can reproduce themselves.
 
I live on the first floor so no wet dirt there,I hope I don't have to deal with them all summer.I have now been banned for using crickets.
They are intelligent and I think they are laughing at me
 
I live on the first floor so no wet dirt there,I hope I don't have to deal with them all summer.I have now been banned for using crickets.
They are intelligent and I think they are laughing at me

Well I am the onelaughing now Jimny Cricket got a can of woopass in the form of RAID on him,he aint been seen around these parts for 3 days now,

crickets in your home use RAID!!
BUT DONT USE ANY WHERE NEAR YOUR NEWT ROOM
 
I had a number of scaped A.domestica living behind one of my snake´s terrarium. They seemed to do reaaaally well. They grew fast and got large and fat. Also, they were amazingly fast and reacted to the slightest movement. Nothing like their relatively sluggish captive brethren.
I eventually managed to get rid of them with the use of my mad tweezer skills but it was a long and bloodied battle.
 
This is why I have a couple of pairs of tropical house geckos I let loose in the house. These are like the fifth or sixth generation of them here. Then again, I can get away with such a thing as due to the local climate there is zero risk of them becoming and invasive species if they were to escape the house. It is also really cool to find eggs stuck to the back of the fridge.
 
A local reptile store thought the same thing about a tokay gecko, that it would not survive the western PA winter. My understanding was that it was sickly, so they let it loose to live out its remaining days then die outside during the cold of the winter. We did have a harsh winter that year, temperatures as low as zero, and several feet of snow. Surprise, Surprise... the next spring there is was, just hanging out on the side of the building, alive, fat and as sassy as ever.

Never under estimate the will to survive.
 
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