In many cultures, crickets are a sign of good luck. In your home, they are not. Crickets are mostly harmless, but their endless chirping is enough to keep you awake all night. It can be particularly annoying if crickets get into your walls. Unlike their grasshopper cousins, crickets are nocturnal, meaning your chances of actually seeing them are rare. They are attracted to your Baton Rouge home for three reasons: food, shelter, and light. Just keeping your porch lights on is enough to bring them near your home.
Crickets in Baton Rouge also serve as prey for many larger insects and animals, meaning if you have crickets, you may have bigger problems. It is best practice to call an exterminator to get rid of crickets on your property or in your home. At Fox Pest Control your local Baton Rouge pest control service, we want to help you exterminate crickets; we want you to feel safe and comfortable in your Baton Rouge, LA home.
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You might already know you have a cricket infestation; but here are a few of the most common signs cricket exterminators in Baton Rouge look (or listen) for:
The most common sign is the sound of crickets chirping inside the house. This is done only by male crickets — however, not all species of crickets chirp.
Another sign is to actually see a cricket around the house.
Some crickets in Baton Rouge area eat or chew on carpeting. The bite marks can be very small, often no wider than one millimeter.
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Who knew that crickets could cause real damage to your property?
Surprisingly, most people think house crickets are more a nuisance,
and they don't worry too much about them.
But when you see a cricket in your home, you can be certain that they are ruining
your clothing, your carpets, and any other areas covered in fabric, like your furniture.
Because crickets surface feed, they pull fibers loose while eating.
Crickets can fly and jump, which makes catching them almost impossible.
So what should you do when you see a cricket?
It's simple — call Fox Pest Control!
We are licensed and certified to take care of your cricket problem,
and any other pests that are sharing your home and yard.
When you call, we will send a pest pro to your home that same day.
They'll do a free inspection and recommend a treatment schedule to solve your cricket problem, guaranteed.
If you see any additional pest activity, just call us, and we'll come back for free.
At Fox Pest Control, we care about your comfort and safety
and want you to enjoy your home.
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The best way to make sure crickets are gone for good is to eliminate their food sources. Cleaning your home will help keep them at bay until a Baton Rouge cricket exterminator from Fox Pest Control can come to the door. Home remedies aren’t thorough enough to exterminate all crickets permanently. Give us a call ASAP for same-day service.
The spider cricket, also known as the camel cricket or hump-backed cricket, can eat wood, cardboard, plants, or other insects, including other spider crickets. If these crickets have entered your home, they aren’t going to hurt you, but they can cause problems by eating parts of your Baton Rouge home.
Usually, the biggest problem crickets can cause is attracting other insects to your yard or inside your home. Because crickets in Baton Rouge are high in protein, raccoons, spiders, centipedes, birds, and other animals are likely to come on your property if you have lots of crickets.
While crickets enjoy a good leaf now and then, they’re unlikely to cause as serious a problem for the garden as beetles, aphids, spider mites, and caterpillars. As omnivores, crickets will take advantage of all sorts of available food sources, but they’re unlikely to focus on your garden.
No. crickets rarely bite, can’t sting, don’t have venom, and, if a cat or dog swallows one, they most likely won’t cause any problems. But too many of them around isn’t any fun.
Crickets are distantly related to grasshoppers. They have cylinder-shaped bodies and long hind legs. Many species have wings that they use to make a chirping sound.
“True crickets” make up the family Gryllidae, while camel crickets and mole crickets belong to two other families within the order Orthoptera.
By rubbing their wings together, the males chirp in order to attract a female.
Some males make chirping sounds after mating as a sort of celebration song. Not all species are able to make a chirping sound.
There are several differences between grasshoppers and crickets:
Chirping Style: Crickets make their chirping sounds by rubbing their comb-like wings together.
Grasshoppers rub their legs on their wings to make a similar, though harsher, sound.
Antennae: Crickets have long and willowy antennae.
Grasshoppers have shorter antennae.
Activity: Crickets are active at night, being nocturnal.
Grasshoppers are active during the day, being diurnal.
Diet: Crickets are mainly omnivores (some are exclusively herbivores though), so they’ll eat almost anything, from a decaying animal carcass to a tasty leaf.
Grasshoppers are mainly herbivores, but some species are omnivores.
Since most are omnivores, crickets will eat plants, meat, or other insects. Crickets in Baton Rouge tend to eat whatever they can.
In some cases, desperate crickets have been known to turn to cannibalism in order to survive by preying on weak, sick, or injured crickets.
In fact, some parts of the world enjoy crickets as a delectable meal. Some parts of Asia deep fry these critters and eat them as treats or snacks. Cricket protein powder is also starting to catch on in the U.S. Yum! Maybe having a lot of crickets around isn’t such a bad thing?
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If a Fox Pest Control customer has an infestation of covered pests in their Baton Rouge, LA home or business between regularly scheduled Home Protection Plan treatments, we will come back and perform targeted treatments to get rid of the pest at no charge. If Fox Pest Control cannot resolve the problem after three such targeted treatments, we will cheerfully refund the customer’s last monthly subscription fee, as long as all other terms of the agreement have been met.
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