Cricket Identification and Control
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Cricket
Gryllidae
How To Identify A Cricket
Crickets are 1/2 to 1 1/8 of an inch in length. They are light brown to black in color and sometimes green. They have long threadlike antennae that are longer than their body. Crickets make a chirping noise.
Female crickets have a long stinger-like appendage coming out of the rear of their body.
What Do They Eat
A cricket’s diet consists of agricultural grain crops and vegetables. They also eat fabrics, synthetics or leather and fur, especially when it’s soiled with human perspiration.
Crickets cause damage to fabrics and are a minor nuisance pest around and inside structures.
What Do They Look Like
Female cricket with stinger-like appendage.
Crickets are light brown to black in color.
Crickets area nuisance in and around structures.
Where Can You Find Them
Cricket overwinter as eggs in soil. The female uses her stinger-like appendage to lay the eggs in the soil.
They can be found in moist areas such as mulch beds, woodpiles, weeds, stone piles, etc.
Name:
Gryllidae
Diet :
Grain crops and vegetables, fabrics, synthetics, leather, fur
Impact :
Nuisance, damage fabrics and crops
Tips & Tricks
How To Prevent Crickets
- Find and eliminate harborage outdoors such as weedy ornamental beds, rock and wood piles, and moist secluded areas.
- Seal crack around the outside foundation wall.
- Install tight-fitting door sweeps at the base of all exterior doors.
- Vacuum individuals that enter buildings.
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