Can you kill the cricket in the house. Signs with a positive shade

In fairy tales, crickets are always positive heroes, with a lot of good signs associated with them. Therefore, in life, the attitude of man to these insects is good-naturedly indulgent.

What a cricket looks like, photo

It is worth the insect to become neighbors of people in the apartment or house - and everything changes. Night trills are not all to their liking, and externally, insects are more like few nice cockroaches.

The home cricket is a small insect. Body is slender, slightly flattened. It is covered with a hard shell ranging from greyish yellow and straw-yellow to fairly dark shades of brown with specks, stains and spots.

On the sides of the ovate oblate head are small eyes. Long antennae are often larger than the owner. The insect has well developed wings. There are 3 pairs of legs. Due to the special structure of the rear legs crickets can perfectly jump. A characteristic feature of insects is the ability to make specific trills, to wriggle.

Why and where do these insects appear in the apartment or house

In nature, crickets live close to humans, preferring old buildings with many cracks, old rugs and high humidity. With a cold snap, insects also migrate to new buildings, meeting even on the upper floors. The reason - repair or complete rebuilding of the house.

One of the reasons for the appearance of uninvited guests in a multi-storey building is the breeding of "night singers" by one of its inhabitants and the escape of crickets from the place of detention.

Insects can be brought both in the composition of the product, and in things from the former dwelling.

In the dwellings of humans, insects need heat and food. Favorite places for crickets were raw warm rooms with abundant food. Therefore, the lack of cleanliness, a considerable amount of food waste in the uncovered garbage buckets are perceived by insects as invitation cards.

House crickets chose warm cellars, storage, industrial premises, heating plants as their habitats. "Night musician" settles in the dwellings of people. Crickets move to the premises with a cold snap.

Insects are omnivores. Under natural conditions, they prefer plant food. But the diet is varied by eating other insects and even young individuals of their own species.

In a human home crickets prefer leftover food: pieces of fruit, vegetables, bread crumbs. Crickets eat cockroaches, mole. To taste "singers" droplets of drinks, excluding alcoholic.

During the day, uninvited guests are hiding under the baseboards, hiding in dark nooks and corners.

Find the "neighbors" can only be with the onset of darkness by the sound.

How to get rid of crickets (with reviews)

Night singing is not for everyone’s liking. Therefore, night singers, the cause of sleepless nights, are trying to evict from the house, despite the good signs associated with these insects.

We lived one shrill, first under the stairs, then relocated to the toilet. We sealed in the toilet the gaps into which he could pass, and from the heat generator side we sent him a ride from cockroaches and crawling insects with a lavender smell. A few minutes later I found him dead on the way to the air - I came out to catch my breath and still died from the aerosol. Another mother nailed in the toilet. And one more I was vacuumed into a vacuum cleaner when it crawled from the street to our house. They become less mobile in the cold and are easy to catch. You can not give him warm - his blood will warm up and he will start jumping - you can catch a word. And only males in the mating season mate; they attract females, which then lay 100–300 eggs. crickets hatch from them, and they start yelling the same way in a month (at puberty). So you need to get rid of them as soon as possible, because you will never understand whether the females have come or not, they are quiet, or maybe they have already arrived, have fertilized and laid eggs. In short. destroy immediately upon detection.

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If a cricket starts up in the house, it is important to get rid of the restless neighbor immediately, until several individuals have settled in the room: the cricket attracts females with the chatter. After reproduction, the “executors” will have to carry out the treatment with insecticides, and call the workers of special services for the disinsection.

To rid the home of uninvited guests use traps, "grandmothers" means and chemicals.

However, the safest method is drying and airing the premises. With a lack of moisture crickets die or leave the apartment. Yes, and the health of the inhabitants of the house this option does not harm.

Traps

Feeders - one of the simplest methods of dealing with crickets. A little molasses is mixed with water, the prepared mass is placed in a deep vessel. Sweetie-insects will certainly go for a treat and get inside the tank. They cannot get out themselves.

More difficult to manufacture "trap pit". For her take a two-tier container, set it on a bowl. Mix the sweet corn flakes with milk, add sugar and place the bait in the bottom container, pouring it into the top alcohol.

The aroma of food will attract the attention of crickets. They will fly over the tank. Alcohol fumes will destroy insects.

It is important to use alcohol: only it is harmful to insects.

A trap with a sticky surface will allow you to catch a cricket. The tape is hung out where uninvited guests were spotted. It is recommended to purchase a few sticky traps.

Folk recipes

Scare away cricket effectively wormwood decoction.

1. A liter of water is poured over 2 large spoons of chopped herbs.
2. The composition is boiled for 5 minutes, covered with a lid, removed from the heat and insist 2 hours.
3. The tool is filtered, poured into a container with a spray.
4. The composition is sprayed on all surfaces, including baseboards and window frames.

Not bad helps in the fight against insects pyrethrum powder, Persian chamomile. The characteristic flavor of crickets do not tolerate. Therefore, a natural remedy is used to scare away the night "singers", their survival from home. The powder is scattered in areas where restless neighbors appear.

Excellent helps sealing wax. It is lit, fumigating apartment. The smell of such smoke insects can not stand and leave the room.

More troublesome to hunt people. Since crickets are awake at night, it is necessary, with the lights on, to try to have time to destroy the enemy. It is necessary to focus on the sound made by insects. Having determined approximately the location of the singer, light a flashlight and show dexterity. In the course go and fly swatters, and sneakers.

Insects have excellent hearing and reaction: closer than 3 meters, they do not give close to him.

For private houses there is an old way. For the crickets prepare a sweet bait, leaving the sweet fruit in the place where the uninvited guests are concentrated. At night, insects go for a tempting treat. Here they are caught.

Place habitat cricket poured boiling water. This method works in a private house, but the method is unacceptable in the apartment.

If a cat or a dog lives in the house, then catching a cricket will not be a problem for the owners of the premises. The animal catches "night singers" and eats them. Insects are especially loved by more exotic pets, lizards, for example. It is for their feeding breed insects specially.

It is good to hang troughs near the house so that the birds catch the crickets.

Chemicals

If night performers had time to lay eggs, then more serious measures would be required. From toxic drugs suitable funds on the basis of "Dichlorvos". Effective drugs "Super", "Varan", "Neo".

The Brownie gel is detrimental to adults. The drug is treated habitat uninvited guests. Procedures carried out for several days. The universal drug-aerosol "Prima-71", "Neofos-2" works well.

More effective aerosol means.

Repeated insecticidal treatment will help to get rid of young individuals hatched from eggs.  Conduct it in compliance with safety regulations.

1. Be sure to wear a protective suit, plastic glasses, a respirator. To protect your hands - gloves.
2. The doors and windows of the room are closed, people, animals leave home. Take out even an aquarium with fish.
3. Spray with "Dichlorvos" shaken several times and begin spraying. They process all habitats in which crickets were seen. The composition must be sprayed on all surfaces, without neglecting the corners of the room. It is best to do it from a distance of 25-30 centimeters.
4. Carefully process all areas, the composition is sprayed in the gap, behind the plinth behind the walls. The container is kept away from the face at arm's length to protect it from toxic fumes.
5. The room is left after the disinsection for 6 hours.
6. The windows after the specified time is opened, airing the dwelling for half an hour. Remove dead insects with a vacuum cleaner. Be sure to throw the filter away from home. Pass by vacuuming near the corners, near the baseboards, in the corners.
7. After doing a wet cleaning.
8. After 40–70 days, re-treatment is carried out to destroy the adult insects that emerged from the eggs that were not noticed during the first treatment.

Some traps can not cope with the proliferated "singers." It is impossible to manage without aerosols and mechanical destruction of egg clutches.

Of the modern insecticides, the drug Tarax is recognized as the most effective.

1. It is diluted with water in the recommended instruction ratio it is diluted with water and the room is treated.
2. The insecticide forms a film on drying. After contact with her insects die.

At the time of processing the premises of the inhabitants will have to leave it.

Sunlight and fat have a negative effect on the effectiveness of the drug.

Most often, egg-laying is in the pile of the carpet. If a crackling family was built in the room, then it is best to purchase a special filter to delay the smallest particles for a vacuum cleaner.

Vacuuming the place of laying, hermetically closing the bag, packed in a plastic bag and discarded. This will help to get rid of the house crickets.

In the absence of special insecticides, hair sprays and deodorants are effective. It is important to choose a tool with a sharp aroma. Spray spray into the gap, where the night troublemaker hid. Insect is chosen outside. Here it is necessary to show the wonders of agility.

Comparative characteristics of ways to combat crickets

If no action helped and the crickets get bored at night, you need to contact the experts.

Professionals will pest. For their time, however, the room will have to leave, and after cleaning up, to clean textiles, furniture, to air for a long time. But it's worth it: stop bothering the night guests.

However, in order to not have to re-experience all the "charm" of the struggle, it is desirable to carry out prevention.

How to prevent the reappearance of guests

To prevent re-settlement will help seal all the cracks, cracks through which crickets can penetrate the house. Insects can get into the room if there are gaps and holes in the floor and plinths near sewage pipes.

• Mosquito nets are fastened to the windows so that insects could not get into the dwelling.
• Handle special sprays and angles near the batteries for the effective destruction of the larvae.
• Bin must be tightly closed so as not to attract the smells of crickets.
• It is important not to leave crumbs on the table, immediately removing food debris.
• Dampness in the premises is unacceptable. It is imperative to warn employees of the management company or health workers about water accumulation in the basements.
• Residents of lower floors or private houses need special attention. In the evenings, it is necessary to close the curtains, lower the blinds so as not to attract unwelcome guests from the world of insects with bright light.
• To illuminate the courtyard, it is recommended to use lamps of average power, preferably yellow light.
• Ventilation grilles are covered with a fine mesh mesh.
• Heaps of compost should be located at a distance from private houses, in the far corners of the plots.
• Greenery near the house is cut regularly, climbing plants are not recommended to plant close to the house.

If nightly trills do not cause insomnia, and the appearance of insects does not seem repulsive, the neighborhood can be quite pleasant. However, there are ways to get rid of restless guests. And they should be used not to turn life into constant stress.

As the folk omen says, if a cricket appeared in the house, this promises happiness and well-being to the owners. Only people who have this "happiness" started, for some reason they are looking for a way to get rid of it quickly. With this scourge it is quite possible to cope.

We will be familiar - house cricket

Homeland cricket are semi-desert and desert of Central Asia, North Africa and the warm regions of the Far East. Gradually, this insect spread to the northern and western regions, settled in Europe, then, having crossed the oceans, fell into the countries of North America and even to the south of Australia.

The cricket is a small insect (16–25 mm long), somewhat similar to a grasshopper, but with a shorter and more dense body. Coloring - from light tones of fawn to dark brown. His wings are well developed, and he can fly, although he does this quite rarely. This insect is quite common, so most people know what a cricket looks like.

These creatures are thermophilic. At temperatures below 20 degrees, insects become slow-moving, stop feeding. Their larvae also cease to grow and develop. Therefore, on the street they live and breed only in the south. In the middle lane, a cricket brownie lives outdoors only during the hot summer months, and with the onset of cold snaps, he moves closer to the person. These insects no longer live behind stoves, as in the old days, but are settled on heating mains, warm cellars, boiler rooms. Premises of livestock farms, where there is always warm and abundance of food, are perfect for them. Therefore, in such areas are usually a lot of crickets. These insects are frequent guests not only in a country house, but also in a city apartment.

Crickets feed on plant debris, but they also willingly eat caught insects, such as cockroaches. Males guard their territory. They engage in mortal combat with discovered competitors, after which the winners eat up the defeated. Crickets are nocturnal, and during the day they hide in secluded crevices.

Females lay from 50 to 200 (and in favorable conditions - up to 500) eggs in a secluded place. In about a month (although the term is highly dependent on temperature), the larvae hatch from the eggs, which differ from adults only in size and lack of wings. After 6 weeks, during which they shed several times, the larvae turn into sexually mature insects.

The home cricket does not live long - the duration of its life cycle is 3-4 months, of which only 1.5 it lives as an adult.

A cricket appeared in the house - what to expect?

Crickets live near people from ancient times. Not surprisingly, a lot of superstition was born about this restless "lodger". People sign says that the appearance of a “singer” in the house foreshadows the owners joy, luck, wealth and well-being. In addition, there is a belief that if there is a patient in the house, he will soon recover, and if there is a bride or a groom, then you should prepare for the wedding. But it is not recommended to kill a cricket, as this can bring misfortune on the house.

How to treat these signs - everyone decides for himself. In reality, it should be remembered that these insects tend to get into human housing in search of warmth and food. And the goal of the "songs" - the trill of the male - is to lure the female. In any case, after a couple of sleepless nights, you have to decide how to get the crickets out.

How to get rid of annoying "neighbor"?

If a cricket wound up in the dwelling, it will not go unnoticed by the household. Monotonous trills that prevent sleep at night, invariably generate a desire to quickly get rid of this uninvited "guest." This can be done in several ways.

• Those who believe in omens and do not want to destroy the “singer” should catch him and let him out. This is quite difficult to do, since these insects are active only in the dark. During the day, they hide, and finding their refuge is not easy. In addition, crickets are very cautious and mobile, they jump well. When a person approaches, they quickly run away and get stuck somewhere in the crack. Therefore, to bring the "singer", you have to work hard.
• Somewhat easier, finding an insect, forget about the signs and slam it (for example - sneaker).
• The easiest and most reliable way to get rid of the restless "neighbor" - use any chemical preparation to combat domestic insects. Only during and after pest control it is necessary to strictly follow the instructions in order not to harm people and pets by chance.
• If it is not possible to use the chemical method, you can bring the cricket, using the sticky traps for insects.
• There is a proven popular way to get rid of nightly concerts. In the area from which the trills are most often heard, it is necessary to snuff it up with lighted sealing wax. The annoying insect quickly retreats from this territory and leaves the unpleasant-smelling apartment forever.
• You can try to create conditions in which crickets can not exist. They settle in places where there is constant access to water. These are warm bathrooms, kitchens. In a dry environment, these insects will either die or go to look for more suitable places to live. It is necessary to block access to moisture, to ensure perfect dryness in the premises, and the question of how to get rid of the cricket, will no longer arise. At the same time, the health of pets and a person is not subject to the slightest danger.
• If a cricket wound up in the apartment, it means that there is no cat in it, which is a natural hunter for such living creatures. Take the kitten into the house, and he will quickly catch the jumping "singers", and at the same time he will relieve mice from the mice.

Thus, to get rid of these insects in the house or apartment is not so difficult. But you should think about how to prevent the appearance of crickets in your housing in the future. After all, an uninvited "guest" somehow got into the apartment. Therefore, it is necessary to repair all cracks and crevices along the plinths, the places where pipes pass through the walls, to hang the opening windows and window leaves with a mosquito net.

Relaxing in nature, we enjoy the chirping of crickets. Their singing pacifies us, reminds of the inseparable connection between man and nature. But if this insect gets into the apartment, there can be no question of peace, because the loud chirping of cricket and sound sleep are completely incompatible things. If you had a cricket in the house, it says that this is a good omen. But the fact is that in different cultures the ideas about these insects differ: some consider that they are the messengers of a happy future, others see something ominous in them. Let us take a closer look at the meaning our ancestors put into the image of the cricket.

Omen of happiness

According to the ancient people, whose relationship with nature was much stronger than we, residents of the stone jungle, cricket symbolizes good and joy in the house:

Harbinger of sorrow and misery

Cricket is attributed not only to positive symbolism, sometimes in it they saw the source of various misfortunes:

• Grief in the family. If the insect for some time chirped in the house, and then left it without your participation, it means that hard times are coming. The family will face serious challenges. This may concern both a shaky financial situation, and disorder in relations between households.
• Fire. Cricket flying through the house, promises a fire. It is worth being careful with the fire, it is better to listen to the omen and be considered superstitious than to ignore such a serious warning and to remain, at best, without shelter, at worst - to lose someone from loved ones.
• Disease. If the cricket chirping woke someone from a family member, then health problems await him. It is better to pass an examination in advance and make sure that everything is in order, or to take measures in time if any deviations are detected.
• Poverty and death. Such is the sentence to the one who decides to kill the cricket. By itself, the cricket - the keeper of the house, so his murder can not go unpunished.

Cricket in the house, as the sign says, more precisely, the majority of known signs, is still good. Insect acquires a negative value only when confluence of certain circumstances. Our ancestors believed that the cricket protects the house and the family living in it. It is up to you to believe in these omens, because it is often human faith that provokes certain events in our life.

Folk sign says - if a cricket wound up in the house, then this is for happiness and prosperity. But the people whom such “happiness” has visited in large numbers do not share this point of view. They are looking for ways to get rid of this scourge.

House crickets in the warm season prefer to live in the fresh air, and in winter they can come to “warm up” under your roof.

Crickets, like grasshoppers, cockroaches, medars and locusts, belong to the order of orthoptera. About 2.3 thousand species of these insects are known in the world, of which only about 50 are found on the territory of Russia. Most of them live in subtropical and tropical countries. Our most famous species are field cricket and house cricket.

Brownie cricket (Acheta domesticus) in the southern part of the country lives both in apartments and in nature. In the central and northern regions, he lives only in houses next to a person, with preference given to the old warm rooms with high humidity. These insects live and breed well in warm cellars flooded with water. They are quite large (body length 16-26 millimeters), grayish-yellow color. Field crickets are dark, almost black.

In the warm season, domestic crickets usually live on the street, and with the onset of cold snap, they rush into warm rooms, climbing through all sorts of crevices, air vents, and air vents. But many people do not know what a cricket looks like, since during the day it usually hides, crawling out at night in search of food. It is difficult to get closer to these insects at a distance closer than 2-3 steps, as they have good hearing and retreat in time. The back pair of legs is longer and suitable for jumping (like in grasshoppers). But crickets jump not so far and have a shorter and shorter body.

These insects are omnivores: they feed on the remnants of food in houses, preferring liquid food. They also eat other invertebrates, with deficiencies in food they are able to feed on their weaker relatives. Sometimes crickets can spoil the products and even things in the apartment, as well as the mole. Therefore, although folk omen is not advised to offend these insects, the owners have to decide how to remove the crickets settled in the house.

  Perhaps the cricket who settled in the house did not deserve destruction, but with its “songs” it can deprive all households of sleep

The fact that the house was got a new "lodger", the owners will soon find out from his nightly "concerts" and begin to think how to get rid of the cricket. Under favorable conditions, a home cricket can breed all year round. Only in one season, the female is able to produce up to 180 young individuals, therefore, if they are not removed in time, the insects very quickly form a significant colony.

It is not easy to get rid of crickets, as they hide during the day and are nocturnal. Currently, there are a large number of preparations for domestic insects, but there are no specialized insecticides against crickets yet. Nevertheless, effective ways to combat these insects in the house exist.

• If one cricket wound up in the apartment, the easiest way to get it out is to catch it. You can catch an insect at night when it comes out of its hiding place in search of food and makes trills. Having identified the location of the "singer" by ear, you need to light it up and try to catch it with a jar or hand. So you can get rid of a few crickets just appeared in the apartment.
• With a sufficiently large number of insects in the house, when they have already laid eggs, it is necessary to resort to the use of chemicals. To get rid of crickets, they usually use the same preparations as for fighting other domestic insects, but dichlorvos-based toxic chemicals are considered to be the most effective. When processing the premises, it should be remembered that insecticides are toxic to humans, therefore, for the period of disinsection, residents and pets should preferably leave the house for one or two days. The cricket development time from egg to juvenile is from 40 to 70 days, therefore, re-treatment of the premises will be required to get rid of insects re-emerging from the eggs. When working with pesticides should strictly follow the instructions and use personal protective equipment.
• A safe way to get crickets out is to set up traps. They are placed in warm and humid places where insects usually settle.
• You can get rid of the night "singer" very effective folk remedy. In the room should light the usual sealing wax. Crickets do not tolerate the smell of such smoke and quickly leave the apartment.
• Domestic crickets belong to moisture-loving insects, which means they can live and breed only in places with high humidity. That is why they settle in bathrooms, warm and wet basements, under sinks. If the premises are well dried, the crickets either go to other, more suitable places for them, or die. To get rid of insects in this way is quite simple, and, most importantly, it will not affect the health of people and pets.
• In order to block insects from entering the apartment from the street, from the basement or from their neighbors, it is necessary to putty all the gaps, and vents and channels to be tightened with mosquito nets.

Domestic crickets do not cause significant harm to people, but are forced to get rid of them, as these insects with their “songs” prevent their hosts from sleeping at night.

Cricket is a fairly common insect that lives throughout the CIS. Everyone will recognize his chatter: go outside on a warm summer night and hear it almost under every bush.

The creation is quite secretive, but the fact that he flew into the house can be identified by chatter. It is a small dark-colored bug, which, if left unchecked, is capable of making special sounds. They get into the house or apartment most often through an open window at night.

This sign can be both positive and negative, and in most cases depends on your attitude.

Some representatives of our people believe that the appearance of the insect promises unexpected profits. Others argue that the cricket can be a harbinger of misfortunes, disappointments.

In most cases, the appearance of a cricket is associated with favorable conditions inside the home, first of all it concerns the temperature. Therefore, with the onset of the first cold weather, they can please you with their visit.  But it is worth remembering the main thing: almost all ancestors considered the killing of this insect to be a serious mistake if it bothers you very much, get rid of it without hurting the bug.

Insect - the forerunner of wealth

The majority is inclined to believe that cricket reflects kindness, spiritual happiness, light, warm relationships, mutual understanding, possible unexpected wealth, family happiness. Slavs perceive this insect as neutral, but they do not strongly recommend crushing it. Otherwise, you run the risk of disaster, unhappiness. Some ancestors believed that the crash of an insect can provoke the development of serious trouble, ranging from flooding from the top of the neighbors, ending with a fire.

A creature that flew into a house, an apartment through a window, a harbinger of trouble - the Scandinavians believe, perhaps a evil spirit captured it by cricket, and by killing the owner, you will release the evil entity right in the dwelling.

An overwhelming number of Christians believe that this insect is a harbinger of great profit. He was always considered the personification of family well-being, so he was not harmed if he got into a house or apartment through a window.  Most mages consider him a positive creature, so they are forbidden to kill him.

In some cases, the bad sign is not his appearance in the house, but rather leaving, because it protects residents from evil entities. The Cherokee Indians use the infusion of this type of insect, considering it as a source of grace, endurance, strength, speed.

The appearance of the insect is an interesting sign

Flying into the apartment, except for sleepless nights, he can guarantee an unexpected receipt of wealth. An unmarried girl, in whose window this insect has snuck, can begin to prepare a dowry, because very soon she will have to find her lover. However, this concerns not only girls, but also unmarried men who have discovered this creature.

Pregnant signs about this insect promises easy childbirth, a healthy, strong, beautiful baby.

People experiencing misfortunes will be able to get out of this vicious circle and will gradually begin to restore lost happiness. Widows who have found a cricket in the room will feel a decrease in pain from loss, because she will be assisted by good forces in this matter. The fact is that according to one of the signs, this insect is the soul of a deceased husband, who has returned to the world of the living in order to protect the sleep and rest of his beloved woman.

For patients, the appearance of a cricket is a positive sign, so this event is worth rejoicing. In general, the appearance of a new neighbor is a rather positive phenomenon, but if it prevents the owners from sleeping, it is better to carefully bring the guest into the courtyard.