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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dehumidifiers and glue traps worked for us as well. Does anyone have any tips as to what to do about those disgusting centipede-looking things with the hair-like legs? We get them from time to time -- they are fast enough and react to people quickly enough that they are hard to kill, and they seem to stay away from the glue traps better than the crickets, although we get a few that way from time to time. [/quote] Silver fish are the fast centipede but fuzzier like bug. They will eat your clothes, and carpet. THey like damp places as well. Lavendar and Cedar keeps them away from clothes, make some lavendar and cedar chip sachet's and leave them in your closet. (Lavendar flowers, not oil) Leaving them in damp places will also work. Once we got our moisture problem handled we got rid of most of the silverfish. Cave crickets have just er-emerged near our sump pump, in the closet under the stairs. I'm going to seal it with some Screening and tape it down real well, I've read that works. These are new for us (in this house), however in Maryland it is quite common. Never saw these critters in NY where I"m originally from. Lots of other things, but not cave crickets. They eat their own too which is pretty vile. [/quote] Better than not eating their own. At least this way there are fewer. We recently had to stop using cricket traps because we caught two mice. That is definitely worse than the crickets. So now we just let the cats patrol while we try to figure out the mouse problem (which the cats take care of more humanely than the traps).[/quote]
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