cave cricket exterminator

[Anonymous]

Recommend the exterminator that got rid of your cave crickets. I’ve fought them for years and just opened the walls and resealed my basement, still I get at least a few every week. I run a humidifier and installed a baseboard heater to supplement the heat.

[Anonymous]

Just get some sticky traps from Amazon. They work great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just get some sticky traps from Amazon. They work great.

They don’t come through the walls, they come through the door and windows and pipes and such. Don’t sweat it. They’re not living in the dirt under the house.

[Anonymous]

Seal more. You obviously still have gaps.

[Anonymous]

Why are you humidifying? They love the moisture.

We sealed and did water proofing of our crawl space next to basement and no longer get them

[Anonymous]

Have two exterminators, they work independently, but can come over at the same time: Cosmo and Chai.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why are you humidifying? They love the moisture.

We sealed and did water proofing of our crawl space next to basement and no longer get them

This, run a dehumidifier.

[Anonymous]

OP, my bad I run a dehumidifier, I have had the opportunity to seal and waterproof the spaces around the basement jammed in steel wool around all the pipes that I could not caulk, prefer not to be constantly harvesting glue traps, so back to my original question:

Does anyone who have had a successful experience employing a exterminator who was able to eradicate the crickets in the DC area be able to share the name with me?

[Anonymous]

We never eradicate the crickets -- there are always some breakthroughs that the glue traps mostly catch. But the exterminator's spraying has helped a lot. We use Infestation Control in Rockville. We try to spray by mid-August to get ahead of the crickets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, my bad I run a dehumidifier, I have had the opportunity to seal and waterproof the spaces around the basement jammed in steel wool around all the pipes that I could not caulk, prefer not to be constantly harvesting glue traps, so back to my original question:

Does anyone who have had a successful experience employing a exterminator who was able to eradicate the crickets in the DC area be able to share the name with me?

Check back in a month. We have PestNow coming tomorrow for this very thing. We moved in over the summer and had never even heard of them before.

[Anonymous]

Bless you.

[Anonymous]

Cave crickets are pretty harmless. I wouldn't use pesticides for this, especially if you have kids and/or pets.

It's good that you are running a dehumidifier. Make sure you caught everything when you sealed your basement, such as around pipes.

Also keep tall grass, leaves, wood piles, etc. away from your house's exterior. The crickets are attracted to dark, moist places.

[Anonymous]

A cat!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, my bad I run a dehumidifier, I have had the opportunity to seal and waterproof the spaces around the basement jammed in steel wool around all the pipes that I could not caulk, prefer not to be constantly harvesting glue traps, so back to my original question:

Does anyone who have had a successful experience employing an exterminator who was able to eradicate the crickets in the DC area be able to share the name with me?

The glue traps work great and they have a little cover so you don’t even see anything. Why would you broadcast pesticides near your family when there is this easy and effective solution? Filling cracks is a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A cat!

+1

We found a few when we first moved into our house 5 years ago, but haven’t seen any since. I am guessing our cat may have something to do with it.