I find if I use the sticky traps, I don't see any free roaming ones, but the traps fill up and look disgusting. Do these things have an odor? Our rental basement has a sweet-ish odor and I've wondered whether it is from them or something else.

Packing tape works well too. I make a long loop and stick one side down on a sheet of paper so it's easy to throw away.

We had a ton of them in our finished, carpeted basement. There were definitely some seasonal spikes, but they were a presence, year-round. We also use the basement as a guest room, so it was pretty gross for our visitors.

This year, we got an exterminator to do quarterly service and haven't seen a single one since.

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Anonymous wrote:We get some, but then our cats promptly shreds them to pieces.

This. I find legs not whole bugs. LOL

me too, our cats loved them. two years ago we had a lot of them in the summer in the semifinished basement, they would even come into our house. got two cats last year, and the summer they had a lot of fun. no more crickets in the house, some in the basement but mostly we found parts of them.

we have a lot of them in the summer in the detached garage. when I open the door these uge black things crawl all over the side walls and the cealing, it is a nightmare (no cats there). the sticky thing seems a little cruel to me, I do not know what to do,

Anonymous wrote:We get some, but then our cats promptly shreds them to pieces.

This. I find legs not whole bugs. LOL

We get some, but then our cats promptly shreds them to pieces.

We have a rare one, though not a lot. What I really hate are the wolf spiders.