Comments on: Article: Grasshoppers

By: James - Rid Pest Control

James - Rid Pest Control — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 09:49:17 +0000

Hi Craig,
Essentially crickets are outside dwellers that occasionally come inside. I see little point in carrying out any interior treatment, UNLESS an exterior treatment is also carried in conjunction with any interior measures.
Without a specimen to view, I am assuming the crickets are probably mole crickets. They often leave those little mounds in your lawn that look like mounded beads of soil.
As they are generally subterranean dwellers, it would be more prudent to have your lawns and gardens treated with a pesticide that also includes cricket control.
A broadacre spray of recently mowed lawn grass and gardens (including mulch) should solve the problem. It would be ideal if you could moderately water your lawns and gardens the day before treatment.
In all probability, your neighbours are also suffering similar problems. Lawns and gardens in adjacent propertties should also be treated around the same time for best results.
Nurseries or a pest controller should be best able to assist with a good choice of control agent.
Be prepared that some earthworms may also become casualties.
Hope this helps, and best of luck.
James D

By: craig

craig — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 01:38:03 +0000

we have crickets in plauge proportions & was wondering if u new of a way to eradicate them. This is a buisness & with a retail shop that is becoming quite bored with the usuall jokes(of me vacumming) & am over the stench of dead crickets. This is not an overnight thing this has been going for over 12 months now. We have sprayed twice which made them tolarable for a short while then they dissapear then 2 weeks they are plauge again.
craig.

By: Dweebo

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