HELP! Crickets are everywhere!!

[Shakey90]

I feed my beardie with regular brown so called "silent" crickets and I try to be careful when feeding him, but as im sure ye all know, every once in a while one gets away.
I remember losing about one or two under my bed not too long ago but that was it. Well since this mornin alone, I have caught 6 wandering around! And they seemed small. I am not really that bothered but i have heard of serious infestations. Should I be worried about this or will they just die off? Any information appriciated.
cheers

 

[Twobeardieguy]

I would say you should be ok! Unless you lost 100 or more. Just my 2 cents...

 

[Shakey90]

haha no i only lost a few like but i am finding more than a few....thats why im worried. I think they could be gettin freaky on my bed or somethin.

 

[spurlee01]

In the past when we've found more than we've lost that means that they are finding a way to get out. One time, the holes in the screen top were too big- my boyfriend and I spent a good chunk of a morning hunting down crickets. The other time, the lid had gotten left slightly ajar.
Sara

 

[Elora]

Ahhh!!! I lost 25 once!! I havent found them since so i guess if they did reproduce at least they didnt do it where i can see them!

 

[keschete]

Hehehehe...my suggestion...get a feral kitten!

I Have 3 cats, all from feral origins. I have to keep the crickets locked up. Chupacabra, my 1 year old cat (got her at about 4 weeks as a feral kitten) she LOVES to eat crickets! She will dump the container and remove the top just to eat them.

When I clean the cricket bins, she is always hanging out to eat any stray crickets. Hehehe. I guess that's an extreme suggestion, but hey, it works for me.

Seriously though, crickets are not like roaches and most won't reproduce in your home. You probably have a hole in the bin where they are escaping.

My cat dumped a bin of at least 50 and ate most of them. I found like 4 or 5. Even with a mass escape, I don't have crickets all over my house...

 

[holnik]

Just recently i lost 2 crickets . i get what ever noise level the store has and the guys just so happened to be noisy. that night i couldnt get to sleep for as it seemed ages ! but on the third night they didnt make nouise so i figured they eathier died off or escaped some how. dont worry.

Holly age 11

Sunshine born Dec 15, 2008, adopted Earth Day, 2009

 

[crickest]

I dropped our 20 gallon glass aquarium filled with about 10,000 itsy, bitsy, teeny, tiny, almost microscopic crickets on our dining room floor. We don't have an infestation. . . in fact we are having an issue trying to get the the baby crickets to grow big enough to feed to our dragon. I don't get a second dragon until the cricket farm is producing enough to support two. : (

 

[5hotgun5hine]

Shakey I just had the same problem as you - only they got out into my roommates room :S

Anyway, I put the keeper outside for a few nights and they have since disappeared. That said, I won't be able to do this forever as things get a bit icy up here so I've switched to worms as a staple but I still get a handful of crickets to toss in whenever I pick-up feeders. That way my beardies are still able to have "exciting" food but I don't have to worry about escapes since all of them are eaten right away. And I don't need to buy food for them, listen to them sing at night (I have not found any of these silent ones omg)... I could go on. And crickets don't have that much nutrition to start off with...

Good luck!

 

[Goonie]

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[Shakey90]

Haha thanks everyone for replying. Gives me some hope. Ill try not to worry. Just yesterday when i thought i got em all my girlfriend picked a piece of cardboard from inside the viv and shook it....so now there is another 10 or so on the loose AHHHHHHHH

 

[zebraflavencs]

Word of advice.... Roaches
Janie.

 

[Hopefulresearch]

If you found them near where you lost them than there is an easy trick. You take a shop vac or another high power vacuum and put it where you found a few! Lets just say I've lost afew noisy crickets.

 

[Shakey90]

Ya its a good trick. I use it now alright.

 

[scalesandtales]

Be happy your roaches didn't escape :wink: lol mine did.