Brief Description:

The Three Most Likely Home Invaders are the House Crickets, Field Crickets, Camel Crickets.  The Mole Cricket will do damage to the ornamental turf by eating the location wheree the root meets the grass blades.  These are the most common intruders of a structure or landscape.

House Cricket is approximately 1 inch long.  House crickets are nocturnal, and their food source is paper, silk, wool, and many other types of products.  Strongly attracted to light.  House Crickets are a slight yellow brown in color.  Enter buildings in late summer early fall.  Eggs are laid in the soil.  Each House cricket can lay 100 eggs, which hatch into Nymphs.  Nymphs look like a smaller version of the adult.  

Field Crickets the most common is the Black Field Crickets, which are dark brown to black in color.  An inch and 3/4 long with rounded wings.  Field Crickets live outside, but will occasionally intrude interior looking for a warm location during the early fall and late summer time frames.  Noticed from their loud chirping.  Located in overgrown grassy areas, flower beds, and lawns.  Lay eggs in the soil.  Nymphs look like a smaller version of the Adults.  Life Cycle of a Field Cricket is about 90 days.  Food source are plants.  These crickets are attracted to light.

 Powerful Jumpers and harmless.  They are wingless, so they do not chirp.  Live through the winter, and lay their eggs in the spring.  Nymphs hatch a few weeks later.  Nymphs look like a smaller version of the adults. 

Treatment Methods:

Professionals will use a combonation of  pest control products which include liquid insecticides and baits to treat cricket infestations.  Chemical treatment measures for The House Crickets, Field Crickets, and Camel Crickets are all applied in the same manner.  Use Liquid Insecticides where the infestations is taking place.  For example, if you see an infestation of crickets in your crawl space, use some of the best micro-encapsulated (pest control products applied on porous surfaces with minimal penetration of surface) products used by professionals are Tempo Ultra SC, Cykick CS, and Suspend SC.  You can also use Bifen IT to treat cricket infestations.  These liquid insecticides are mixed in a 1 gallon sprayer to the proper dilution,  then you want to spray the surface where you see the cricket infestation.    Treatment using bait, such as, (Niban or MotherEarth are the best pest control products to treat cricket infestions.  These products has easy handle for delivery of the product so no special equipment is needed.  Depending on your treatment area and location will dictate how much bait will be placed.  Each product page will have msds and labels on how to apply.  Our professional pest control technicians usually carry a 4lb Jug of Bait in their vehicles.

Apply liquid insecticides to entry locations, for example, window frames, door frames, exterior foundation, basements, and garages.  Treat areas where large infestations are located.  Once liquid has dried, you may apply bait around areas where infestations have occured.  Interior treat along baseboards and other areas where crickets are located.

When controlling Mole Crickets, you want to apply Granules Exterior, Liquid Insecticides, and Baits.  Mole Crickets can cause serious damage to your lawn.  Treat the infested locations with these formulations of product for best results.