Do you eliminate crickets in your household when you notice them?

Any creature that I haven’t invited into my home, whether it’s flown, walked, hopped or crawled, is promptly escorted out upon discovery.

we would have them in the basement when we lived in baltimore. i liked them and left them alone.my SIL wouldn’t sleep down there cuz of them – i thought she was being silly. rarely kill any bugs and only escort some of them out.

Indoors? lol, my s/o stomped a cricket the last time there was one un-invited in the kitchen. I have also heard about the cricket luck but no, I don’t believe in that lucky fortune toss-up. A lot of people from around the world do believe in it, and they will believe almost anything to help them with their wellbeing.
To me crickets are vexatious when they start chirping non-stop in the middle of the night.

@FutureMemory, I think it is a better idea to promptly escort the unexpected.

I might scoot them outside, but they don’t bother me that much. I like the sound of them when they are outside.

@skillcapes7, Ha Ha! I don’t blame her for it. I know a lot of people could not stand the chirping in the middle of the night or especially indoors.

@Tamara You’re saying you like using bold rather than italics? I don’t follow.

@FutureMemory, I been here in this site for just past a week. I don’t know how to post in italics.

Well, with neither bold nor italics, I will say my husbands job is to smash all bugs in this house.
But I have to say, I do not believe I’ve ever had a cricket in the house.
Also, I thought it meant someone was going to die… could be wrong. I saw it in a movie once.
Movies are not the best source of information.

@MissPoovey, I think people have been watching to many movies. I don’t know how to do the italics. All I know how to do is bold letters like shift and 8. If I knew how to do italic typing, I would add the words because I think they look neater. How do you do italics typing in this site? I came from answerbag which is a similar site to this one and they do not have the bold or italics posting there unless an embed code is added with a comment.

@Tamara, this is a link to the formatting help page. It’ll show you how to do italics , bold italics and, should you desire, tiny, bold italics.

I live in cricket paradise and I personally happen to really like falling asleep to the crickets chirping on summer nights.

I don’t ‘eliminate’ anything that comes into my house and that includes crickets, lizards, frogs and raccoons.

@lillycoyote, Cool… Now I know how to post in italics. This is fun, I didn’t know how simple it was. Thank you so much for the helpful link you provided. Points for you too.

I try to find them, which is pretty easy but annoying if I only notice them when it’s quiet and sleepy time and free them outside. I would hate to hold them captive in a cage (they might not like it either)....

If I think that I’ve got a good shot at eliminating them, yes. I am rarely in the mood to go bug-hunting through basement clutter. I hunt with a 14W New Balance; it’s more sporting than Raid.

@KhiaKarma, I don’t think bugs, insects of any kind would want to be in a cage either. It is what a lot of people believe in different countries that crickets are supposed to give them good luck which sounds very superstitious and gullible to me lol, but to each to their own.

I don’t harm them. They are harmless. If I can catch them, I put them outside. Pretty much anything in the house gets a free pass out- except black widows! We’ve had everything from tarantulas to kingsnakes to barn owls in the house…

@crisw A true friend to all living things would just don a pair of work gloves and put the black widows outside, too. :P
For me, anything that’s not a bug warrants removal or at least a mechanism, not mashing. So I’m specist. Whaddaya gonna do, sue me?

@crisw, Hi Crisw? I don’t understand, how is it that you being an animal rights activist would not give a black widow a free pass? Aren’t you concerned about those creeping crawlers?

@Tamara

I won’t touch the black widows. Childhood revulsion! They are one of the few critters that really creep me out. My husband does put them out.

My cats usually take care of the crickets.

I had a pet iguana back when I was a kid. Before we realized he was a fast food junkie we tried giving him crickets. Every damned one got away, and it took a couple of years to fully clear the place out. When I saw one, I smashed it. But I saw few.

Heard many, though. Many.

@crisw, So if your husband “puts them out” which I’m assuming outdoors, there seems to be an apparent contradiction in your original answer which posts, “Pretty much anything in the house gets a free pass out- (except) black widows!” You see what I mean?

@Tamara

I apologize for the unclearness. Hopefully it is clear now.

I found a scorpion in a jacket last year in my closet…out he went, after I freaked out for a few seconds. lol

@Coloma

We had tiny scorpions under a lightswitch plate once. It was unnerving to see their claws poking out! And baby scorpions once in the laundry room- never did find Mom.

I forgot – i do kill ticks and fleas. And if we had them, i would kill bed bugs and roaches too.

@crisw

Yes, the species here is called the Pale Wind Scorpion, not as big or venomous as the big desert scorpions but, scorpions never the less.

I just spent about 10 minutes the other day banging my winter mud boots upside down on the garage stairs hoping there were no stow aways from storage. lol

Crickets are harmless to humans and they make a wonderful sound. I might move one outside if it was hopping around where I could see it. If I didn’t, my cat would be likely to eat it.

I’d say that I personally kill, on average, 15–20 crickets per year. And not those Cricket-in-Times-Square crickets, either. I’m talking about the big ol’ gnarly cave crickets.

@Kardamom, Crickets being insects related to grasshoppers and katydids are harmless although my cat enjoys them too as snacks when they crunch crunch crunch. Ha Ha!

@crisw, Thank you for clarifying. :) Hey, since DandyDear711 brought-up the bed bugs and roaches, I was curious about your profession. I can understand the black widow experience in your childhood days, ditto! But since roaches are harmless bugs, a cockroach is still another living, breathing creature. If you see one crawling on your floors, would you give it a “freepass out” as well, so it can maybe spread in your neighbors household or do you suppress it instantly?

No, but my cat might.

@crisw, Think think think!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXGhvoekY44

@Tamara – my profession??!? Interesting question. I never have experienced black widows in any of my days, as far as I know. I have lived in various parts of the country – urban and rural. Also have traveled lots including staying in hotels – especially recently.

Bed bugs don’t spread illness but they do bite. I do react to bug bites. And they can quickly take over and are difficult and spendy to get rid of.

Roaches can quickly take over and they “can transmit germs with their hairy legs and sticky feet. For example, if you leave residue from raw meat on your counter, it is possible a cockroach may walk through it and track it around,” They give me the willies!

So maybe I am a bit of hypocrite but I think many of us are.