There is nothing quite like laying in bed on a warm summer evening, enjoying the smooth breeze and the chirping of crickets—until you realize that those chirps are coming from your closet. Crickets will eat anything, anything at all: cloth, silk, cotton, wallpaper, wood, anything they can get their mouth around. They can do some real damage to our linens, furs and rayon.

Crickets love tall grasses. If you have tall grasses near or around your house, it’s best to keep them trimmed low. Crickets tend to find refuge in these grasses and will usually migrate from those areas into our house, eventually finding shelter indoors.

The house and field cricket are the ones that commonly infest houses and once a female cricket makes it into your home, it’s possible for her to lay hundreds of eggs. Since it takes almost a year for cricket eggs to hatch, early detection is almost impossible. Crickets get in through cracks. Make sure you fill all cracks in your walls and foundation. Crickets are bound to sneak their way in rather than go through the front door.

In addition to the house and field cricket, there are Mole crickets and the grand daddy of them all is the Jerusalem cricket. Now he is a scary creature!

Crickets make that chirping noise by rubbing their hind legs together. They do this to attract a mate. The low battery signal in your smoke detector is often mistaken for the cricket’s chirp. Check your batteries annually to ensure the signal isn’t crickets wanting to find a friend!

Crickets in the house can be a real nuisance incessantly chirping at night. Let us help you eliminate this nuisance and bring your pest problem under control.