Follow these pest control tips for crickets

Crickets can be real pests, particularly because the chirping can get annoying. Crickets also cause damage to plants, seeds of grain crop, stored tubers and fruits, and baler twine. When they come in the house, they can damage clothing, furniture upholstery, draperies etc. Since they are extremely fond of cotton, silk, wool and even rayon and nylon.

Mole crickets mainly cause problems to crops since they reside underground and tend to damage the root systems. Female mole crickets lay hundreds of eggs, increasing the danger to plant life if not controlled. Mole cricket eggs hatch in 10 to forty days.

They also eat paper products. Crickets should be controlled by using pest control insecticides like bendiocarb (ficam d), chlorpyrifos (dursban, duration, empire, engage), diatomaceous earth (answer), propoxur (baygon), diazinon, pyrethrins, or resmethrin. Drione or boric acid and other dust products can be placed to treat wall voids and crawl spaces. Granular bait like larvalur or niban can also be placed both indoor and outdoor. Some common outdoor insecticides that can be used are; cyfluthrin (tempo), cypermethrin (demon, cynoff, cyper-active), ficam w or plus, propetamphos (safrotin) lambdacyhalothrin (commadore), or permethrin (dragnet, flee).

One way to control crickets is to prebait before they move into the lawn. A chemical treatment program, started early enough, is also effective. Maxforce granules is an effective pre-bait chemical that is sprinkled about the yard before a rain. Crickets feeding on these granules would die at once. However, this is effective only if the crickets have not yet established themselves in the yard. If there are cricket nests already, regular chemical treatment once a month for at least three months is necessary. Orthene turf wp and talstar granules are other popularly used products for controlling crickets. These pest control chemicals are also accessible in concentrated liquid form, dusts, wettable powders and aerosol forms.

To keep mole crickets from entering the house avoid use of bright lights outside since crickets are attracted to bright lights; seal any cracks in the around doors, windows and in the walls and floors; keep the area in and around the house dry and clean since mole crickets prefer moist environments; ensure that low-growing vegetation is planted at least twelve inches away from the house; sprinkle cricket baits available in the market; sticky traps can be used to trap crickets, which can then be flushed down the toilet or destroyed; take the help of a good pest control business if the problem with crickets is too uncontrollable. ...