We have 5 spiders and we keep getting these tiny flea size house crickets in their water dishes.?

Question

We have most of their lids covered with wax paper to make it near imposible for them to get in. Is this problem because the house we live in hasn't been exterminated? And if so will it help now to fumigate ( the outside of the house around the doors and windows)? Please help we use Bed a Beast substrate. it is biodegradeable coconut husk that comes in a brick. you can boil it out and reuse it. we have boiled it out nearly 4 times now and we are getting annoyed. This happened we think because My boyfriend's mom had the air off until fricking june and she made us open the window one day against our wishes and our spiders got infested with bugs. Is there anything i can keep near their cages that will deter the bugs but keep my girls safe?

They are Tarantulas. we have a colbalt blue, a chilean rose hair, a brazillian salmon, an usumbara baboon, and an ornamental baboon. the brazillian salmon will grow to be the size of a dinner plate with 2 inch long fangs for all you aracnophobes :] We like them as pets because they dont like their but and then give us kisses. also no steaming poop mounds or stinky litterboxes. and yes we can hold some of them if we want to but they make you itchy. they rest are too venomous. They are all pretty colors. there isn't just one kind of tarantula. one is bright blue and one is orange and black and looks like a jackolantern.

Yes we feed crickets but these are not baby crickets. for crickets have to breed and lay eggs for any pinheads to hatch which is a longer process than thought. so the crickets you have in your cage are not baby feeding crickets. They are house crickets however which are pests.

They aren't there all the time though they only appear in and around the girls' water dishes when we failed to change them after the second day. They will harm my spiders if they grow any bigger in their because spiders are very easily iritated even by a adult cricket a spider wont kill it just because its annoyedit will bring all of its legs up to its body and become nervous.

Answer 1

I have had feeder crickets lay eggs in the substrate of my frog's tank,and after releasing the frog( it was a native Green Frog that I found),the tank has suddenly become alive with tiny crickets.They hatched about two weeks after the eggs were laid,and are growing.I'm feeding them and letting them grow to feed to my tree frog.So,the crickets you feed your spiders may be laying eggs,and they may very well be hatching.They won't hurt your spiders,so why fret about it? And,feeder crickets ARE house crickets.

http://www.anapsid.org/crickets.html

Answer 2

Have you been feeding the spiders crickets because they could just be babies. We get baby crickets appearing in our pets cages quite often.

Answer 3

A better question is: WHY THE HELL DO YOU HAVE SPIDERS IN YOUR HOUSE VOLUNTARILY??!!