Crickets in garage (1 Viewer)

[shadyridr]

First time owning a house with a garage. Started noticing crickets in the garage. Is this normal? Didn't think anything of it until 2 came into my house. Im guessing they squeezed under the door that goes into the garage. 

Step 1 is to buy a door sweep. What else should I do? Cricket traps?

 

[ChiefD]

We have them too. I don’t mess with them. 

 

[comfortably numb]

First time owning a house with a garage. Started noticing crickets in the garage. Is this normal? Didn't think anything of it until 2 came into my house. Im guessing they squeezed under the door that goes into the garage. 

Step 1 is to buy a door sweep. What else should I do? Cricket traps?

Wait til you find the spider crickets 

:shudder:

 

[Cjw_55106]

I usually get crickets in the bedroom. 

FWIW, I’m in the upper Midwest and have never had any issue with crickets in the garage. 

 

[The Iguana]

We have them too. I don’t mess with them. 

This. I generally leave them alone in the garage. If I get one in the house, I'll scoop it up and toss it outside. Assuming it isn't a swarm of them, they aren't much of an issue.

 

[BeTheMatch]

First time owning a house with a garage. Started noticing crickets in the garage. Is this normal? Didn't think anything of it until 2 came into my house. Im guessing they squeezed under the door that goes into the garage. 

Step 1 is to buy a door sweep. What else should I do? Cricket traps?

Start a 3-piece band and become an American pop sensation.

 

[Otis]

Wait til you find the spider crickets 

:shudder:

Used to have an infestation of these in our old house. If you went down the basement during that season, you don’t want to, for example, lift up that large picture on the floor. About a hundred of those things jump out in every direction. So gross.  Put the glue traps out and they’d be completely covered in a day or two. Had to keep putting out fresh ones. 

Luckily new house has a finished basement. We saw one (1) of these, and I put out the traps. Caught one. Have put our fresh traps on occasion over the years since then and we’ve never seen another. 
 

Horrid creatures. 

 

[shadyridr]

Ugh just killed another one on the house. I don't have a basement. They are coming in some way. I have no clue how. One minute im watching TV and the next minute this ####er is just walking around minding his own business. So disgusting. 

 

[AAABatteries]

Eat them

 

[Ron Swanson]

Thankfully we have enough lizards in our house to eat most of the bugs.

 

[shadyridr]

Ordered cricket traps. Plan on caulking the baseboard molding when I get a chance. Some pretty big gaps. 

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Wait til you find the spricrickets!!!!!!

:shudder:

Foh

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Caulking the baseboards is a great start. Better insulation and Dehumidifier FTW

They don’t want to hang out in dry areas

 

[Binky The Doormat]

smoke bomb the garage, leave for a day.

sweep up the dead

 

[glvsav37]

they are really bad this year. I live on Long Island and they are literally everywhere. 

 

[jvdesigns2002]

I have a few in my garage--but I just let them be. Luckily they havent come into the house and secondly-I've heard that in many cultures that it's really bad luck to kill crickets.   Being that I'm slightly superstitious--I won't kill them unless they become a real problem. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

Start a 3-piece band and become an American pop sensation.

Listen Buddy, this is a serious thread here.

 

[apalmer]

Listen Buddy, this is a serious thread here.

If you don't like his answer, Peggy, sue.

 

[E-Z Glider]

We have a big shoe-rack on the wall of our garage. Couple years back, I was going kayaking so I threw on my water shoes and headed out the door. My water shoes are an old pair of minimalist running shoes that I wear without socks. They are super-tight and very difficult to put on / take off. I got about 5 minutes down the road and I felt a small lump under my 2nd and 3rd toes. As I'm driving down the road, I feel the lump start to move a little. My immediate reaction was to grind my feet/toes into the ground in an attempt to squash it, but I couldn't get a good angle on it. This just seemed to anger it even more and it started wiggling its way along the crease under my toes looking for a way to escape. I was freaking the #### out, but there was nowhere to pull off the road. It eventually found some space and began slowly crawling/inching/working it's way up between my big and 2nd toe. Once safely snuggled between my toes, it had a little extra room and started chirping/vibrating wildly. It's legs and antenna's were hard and prickly and it felt like something was stabbing/biting the skin between my toes. After several terrifying minutes, I was finally able to kick my shoe off and a huge angry cricket came jumping out of my shoe. Ever since that day, I always check my shoes before putting them on.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

We have a big shoe-rack on the wall of our garage. Couple years back, I was going kayaking so I threw on my water shoes and headed out the door. My water shoes are an old pair of minimalist running shoes that I wear without socks. They are super-tight and very difficult to put on / take off. I got about 5 minutes down the road and I felt a small lump under my 2nd and 3rd toes. As I'm driving down the road, I feel the lump start to move a little. My immediate reaction was to grind my feet/toes into the ground in an attempt to squash it, but I couldn't get a good angle on it. This just seemed to anger it even more and it started wiggling its way along the crease under my toes looking for a way to escape. I was freaking the #### out, but there was nowhere to pull off the road. It eventually found some space and began slowly crawling/inching/working it's way up between my big and 2nd toe. Once safely snuggled between my toes, it had a little extra room and started chirping/vibrating wildly. It's legs and antenna's were hard and prickly and it felt like something was stabbing/biting the skin between my toes. After several terrifying minutes, I was finally able to kick my shoe off and a huge angry cricket came jumping out of my shoe. Ever since that day, I always check my shoes before putting them on.

Now imagine it was a brown recluse.  Always check your shoes, boots, and gloves left in the garage for weeks on end without use.

 

[TripleThreat]

get a gecko.

 

[Osaurus]

Could be worse

 

[bigbottom]

Not sure if they still do, but back in the day they used to sell live crickets at the nursery/garden store.  When I was in college, my fraternity was engaged in a multi-year prank war with our biggest rival.  One of our pranks was we bought about 500 crickets and released them into their house late one night.  Those things made a racket and it took them a couple weeks to get rid of them. 

 

[[scooter]]

Oh, boy.

 

[shadyridr]

We have a big shoe-rack on the wall of our garage. Couple years back, I was going kayaking so I threw on my water shoes and headed out the door. My water shoes are an old pair of minimalist running shoes that I wear without socks. They are super-tight and very difficult to put on / take off. I got about 5 minutes down the road and I felt a small lump under my 2nd and 3rd toes. As I'm driving down the road, I feel the lump start to move a little. My immediate reaction was to grind my feet/toes into the ground in an attempt to squash it, but I couldn't get a good angle on it. This just seemed to anger it even more and it started wiggling its way along the crease under my toes looking for a way to escape. I was freaking the #### out, but there was nowhere to pull off the road. It eventually found some space and began slowly crawling/inching/working it's way up between my big and 2nd toe. Once safely snuggled between my toes, it had a little extra room and started chirping/vibrating wildly. It's legs and antenna's were hard and prickly and it felt like something was stabbing/biting the skin between my toes. After several terrifying minutes, I was finally able to kick my shoe off and a huge angry cricket came jumping out of my shoe. Ever since that day, I always check my shoes before putting them on.

Thanks for making me throw up 

 

[shadrap]

I have a few in my garage--but I just let them be. Luckily they havent come into the house and secondly-I've heard that in many cultures that it's really bad luck to kill crickets.   Being that I'm slightly superstitious--I won't kill them unless they become a real problem. 

now you tell me, I've killed about a dozen in the last week in my garage.

 

[Jaysus]

time for a cat

 

[shadrap]

Thanks for making me throw up 

My buddy had a field mouse crawl up his leg when wearing jeans.  He grabbed it mid-calf & squeezed it to death.

 

[jvdesigns2002]

now you tell me, I've killed about a dozen in the last week in my garage.

Google it if you want to be very worried about your outlook. Lol.  From the Far East to many Native American cultures--killing them is really bad luck--even if it's done accidentally.  If it makes you feel better--I'll send some positive vibes your way. In the meantime--don't buy any lotto tickets--cuz you ain't gonna win. Lol 

 

[Kal El]

The spiders and lizards are currently waging campaigns against one another in my garage. I let them go, because they both eat the roaches that try to get in.

 

[zeamax]

second the glue traps, we use the mouse ones.  If you have pets put a shoe box lid over them with a small hole in the side to keep the pets out of the glue, but the crickets can still get to the traps. 

 

[Leroy Hoard]

:crickets:

 

[peaces]

It's a plague darkness three days long
Hail to fire 

 

[bigbottom]

Google it if you want to be very worried about your outlook. Lol.  From the Far East to many Native American cultures--killing them is really bad luck--even if it's done accidentally.  If it makes you feel better--I'll send some positive vibes your way. In the meantime--don't buy any lotto tickets--cuz you ain't gonna win. Lol 

https://youtu.be/8wbJCXhNdyA

 

[KCitons]

Must be a good year for crickets. I haven't seen one in the house in five years. In the last month have found half a dozen in the finished basement. Not sure where they are getting in.

If you want more, they are easy to bread. My daughter went through a faze where she had a couple different lizards. We would buy crickets from the pet store, but read online that you can "farm" your own. Take a rubbermaid tub and fill the bottom with about 2 inches of sand. Spray the sand with water to make it damp. Put in 6-8 female crickets (the ones with the long tail thingy) and cover for a few weeks. We kept the container in the garage. I'm guessing we hatched a thousand crickets over the course of a few years. 

Sleep tight. 

 

[psychobillies]

Not sure if they still do, but back in the day they used to sell live crickets at the nursery/garden store.  When I was in college, my fraternity was engaged in a multi-year prank war with our biggest rival.  One of our pranks was we bought about 500 crickets and released them into their house late one night.  Those things made a racket and it took them a couple weeks to get rid of them. 

I was gonna say.  I pay for crickets all the time.  Usually a couple hundred at a time when the kids want to go fishing.  Whatever they don't use, I dump out in my neighbors garage.

 

[TripleThreat]

My buddy had a field mouse crawl up his leg when wearing jeans.  He grabbed it mid-calf & squeezed it to death.

sounds like a Richard Gere incident gone horribly wrong. 

 

[greedygoat]

I found a frog in my garage last night after reading this thread but no crickets.

 

[=Smackdown=]

Called cave crickets - and yep they are nasty looking.

Get some glue traps.

Cheap &  easy to dispose of.

 

[KCitons]

I was gonna say.  I pay for crickets all the time.  Usually a couple hundred at a time when the kids want to go fishing.  Whatever they don't use, I dump out in my neighbors garage.

Amateur. 

 

[psychobillies]

Amateur. 

I like to think I've arrived at a stage in my life that I can afford to buy them instead of spending a morning catching them.

 

[KCitons]

I like to think I've arrived at a stage in my life that I can afford to buy them instead of spending a morning catching them.

Must be a good year for crickets. I haven't seen one in the house in five years. In the last month have found half a dozen in the finished basement. Not sure where they are getting in.

If you want more, they are easy to bread. My daughter went through a faze where she had a couple different lizards. We would buy crickets from the pet store, but read online that you can "farm" your own. Take a rubbermaid tub and fill the bottom with about 2 inches of sand. Spray the sand with water to make it damp. Put in 6-8 female crickets (the ones with the long tail thingy) and cover for a few weeks. We kept the container in the garage. I'm guessing we hatched a thousand crickets over the course of a few years. 

Sleep tight. 

It's a cool experiment for kids too. The one caveat is that we used the grey/brown crickets from the pet store. Not the black ones that show up in the basement. Not sure which ones you use for fishing. I'm not sure the process is the same for both types. 

 

[psychobillies]

It's a cool experiment for kids too. The one caveat is that we used the grey/brown crickets from the pet store. Not the black ones that show up in the basement. Not sure which ones you use for fishing. I'm not sure the process is the same for both types. 

Oh, I gotcha.  Didn't see that earlier.  I might give it a try.

 

[SWC]

I found a frog in my garage last night after reading this thread but no crickets.

one frogs eat crickets and two frogs are cool as hell i hope you saluted that frog and told him he was a brohan take that to the bank brofrogo

 

[greedygoat]

one frogs eat crickets and two frogs are cool as hell i hope you saluted that frog and told him he was a brohan take that to the bank brofrogo

Fortunately, I was able to help the frog find his way home via the side garage door. 

 

[SWC]

one frogs eat crickets and two frogs are cool as hell i hope you saluted that frog and told him he was a brohan take that to the bank brofrogo

Fortunately, I was able to help the frog find his way home via the side garage door. 

this is just me talking but i would have let that froghan stay there as long as he wanted because in my mind when a frog wants to hang you just let that froghan abide take that to the bank bromigo

 

[shadyridr]

I saw a cricket and threw a trap 6 inches away from it and it just stood there mocking me. Can't wait to see in a little while if it went on the trap. 

 

[KCitons]

I saw a cricket and threw a trap 6 inches away from it and it just stood there mocking me. Can't wait to see in a little while if it went on the trap. 

I remember something about sprinkling a little corn meal on the traps to bait crickets.

 

[Godsbrother]

Have you tried Wishing Upon A Star?  

 

[SWC]

im just gonna come out and say it frogs are brohans there i said it take that to the bank