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Try These Pest Control Tips For Crickets

Crickets can be real pests, especially because the chirping can get irritating. Crickets also create real damage to plants, seeds of grain crop, stored tubers and fruits, and baler twine. When they enter the house, they can damage clothing, furniture upholstery, draperies etc. Since they are very fond of cotton, silk, wool and even rayon and nylon. Crickets will also eat paper products! They may entertain your cat, but no one wants them in their house.

Mole crickets mainly cause problems to crops since they reside underground and tend to damage the root systems. Female mole crickets hatch hundreds of eggs, increasing the danger to plant life if not controlled. Mole cricket eggs hatch in ten to 40 days. YUCK! You don't want those in your flower bed or backyard!

Crickets can be controlled by using pest control insecticides like bendiocarb (ficam d), chlorpyrifos (dursban, duration, empire, engage), diatomaceous earth(answer), propoxur (baygon), diazinon, pyrethrins, or resmethrin. Drione or boric acid and additional dust products can be placed to treat holes, cracks, or crevices in walls and crawl spaces. Granular bait like larvalur or niban can also be used both indoor and outdoor. Some common outdoor insecticides that can be used are; cyfluthrin(tempo), cypermethrin (demon, cynoff, cyper-active), ficam w or plus, propetamphos (safrotin) lambdacyhalothrin (commadore), or permethrin(dragnet, flee). I highly suggest you do your homework and invest in as many 'natural' remedies that can be bought all over the internet and health stores, rather than worry about toxicity and your family and pets have reactions. There are times where these might be necessary as pest control, but KNOW your options.

One way to control crickets is to prebait before they take over the lawn. A chemical treatment program, started early enough, is also effective. Maxforce granules is an excellent pre-bait chemical that is sprinkled around the yard before a rain. Crickets feeding on these granules would die at once. However, this is proven only if the crickets have not yet established themselves in the yard. If there are cricket nests already, regular chemical treatment one time a month for at least three months is necessary. Orthene turf WP and talstar granules are other popularly used products for controlling crickets. These pest control chemicals are also available in concentrated liquid form, dusts, wettable powders and aerosol forms. Believe it or not, there are plants that you can grow that will deter the cricket population as well.

To keep mole crickets from entering the house avoid use of bright lights outside since crickets are attracted to bright lights; seal any cracks in the surrounding doors, windows and in the walls and floors. Keep the area in and around the house dry and clean since mole crickets prefer moist environments; ensure that low-growing vegetation is planted at least twelve inches away from the house; sprinkle cricket baits available in the market or try sticky traps that can be used to trap crickets as well as other pests, which can then be flushed down the toilet or destroyed; take the help of a good pest control company if the problem with crickets is too uncontrollable.

Enjoy a cricket free summer!