Home Made Cricket Trap

[kevindeeley12]

basically, this is a topic on how to make a cricket trap to successfully catch crickets around your house. WE all know how annoying it can be for crickets to be running around in your house. CHIRP CHIRP all night can get real annoying to some. So, here is a successful ( atleast for me ) way to catch the little Bugger's.

Needed equipment :

1 - 1 red-glowing light i.e an Infared Basking Spot Light
2 - Mollasses, just the kind you can buy at any major grocery stores
3 - Water to fill up your enclosure
4 - Container to hold some Molasses (Make sure you dont care about it cause most likely you will need to throw it away after you are done with the Trap).
5 - Lemon juice (To add to the water to attract the crickets.
How to build it :

First, you need a container that can hold enough water for the crickets to drown in. What is use is an Exo-Terra 18X18X18 enclosure meant for reptiles with opening doors on the front. You would be able to use a plastic container, basically anything flat that crickets can jump into and drown. Once you have the water in the enclosure for the crickets to drown in, you need to put the mollasses in an un-wanted dish/container, the molasses is for the crickets to get attracted to, crickets love the smell of molasses. Also, if you would like to you can add some lemon-juice into the water to also attract the crickets. I'm sure you are wondering what the Red-Light is for, it's mainly to attract the crickets. More than anything else, crickets LOVE red light, and are extremely susceptible to coming towards it. The good thing about my enclosure is that i can just place the lamp on top of it and not worry about anything electrical being involved with water. If you are using something without a screen to put the lamp, I'm not sure how but it's best to point the lamp downwards over the water.

Here's My set-up. Doing something similar to this will work. Let's just say that I have caught a TON of crickets. 1 more thing, make sure you place the trap in somewhere known to have a problem with crickets, and somewhere that it can get pretty dark to bring out the Red in the light.

MY Setup :

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x244/k3v1nd33l3y_2007/crickettrap.jpg

Hope you guys found this helpful.

- Kevin.

 

[moose9]

I have to give it a try. I don't use crickets anymore, cricket free for a couple of months now. But I get straglers from outside that are noisy little suckers. It would be nice to catch them and say good reddens. Thanks...