Okay, this isn't the most important question in the world but it's sure driving me crazy. I have a cricket with a very loud chirp behind my refrigerator. Every time I get near he (or she) quiets up and if I pull the refrigerator out from the wall the cricket is nowhere to be found. I don't want to use bug spray or poison around the refrigerator but I don't know how to get rid of the thing. I tried sprinkling red pepper behind the refrigerator because I'd heard once that it keeps ants away. The cricket was quiet for most of one night, but now he's back and from the sound of it I think he may have actually developed a taste for the stuff. Any suggestions for sending him away permanently (dead or alive) would be much appreciated. Thanks.
2006-11-09 14:54:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anword 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Go to a L&G Center and get a small container of diatomaceous earth. It's the microscopic silicon skeletons of certain plankton in the ocean. Puff some of it behind the fridge and it will kill it. Then next time its time to clean the floor you can clean it up. It's a 100% natural product with no poison.
2006-11-10 01:41:55 · answer #1 · answered by college kid 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
crickets are stupid. grant them with adequate water dish and that they are going to drown themselves. we breed them for bearded dragon foodstuff rather place a field of water approximately 4 or 5 inches deep with approximately 2 inches of water in it. they are going to leap in and that they are going to stay there till you come and get them out, so do no longer. get rid of all different water supplies and you have carried out the problematic area. Seal the basement spray around the exterior of the abode, you do no longer prefer the poison interior the abode no count how stressful the crickets are.
2016-10-03 11:41:54 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you live in an area where horse apples, (hedge apple, Indian orange, Osage orange) are available you can cut them into wedges and scatter them around . They work well getting rid of all insects and are non poisonous..
2006-11-09 15:03:13 · answer #3 · answered by dano 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy some of those glue trays thats for mice, it has a sweet smell to it. . Cricket jumps in and cant get out. Then his/her little legs can no longer scratch against itself
2006-11-09 15:08:11 · answer #4 · answered by Moose 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Flyswatter. SPLAT!!! (no more mr cricket)
2006-11-09 15:12:17 · answer #5 · answered by fatpeople_atemy_family 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋