In fairy tales, crickets are always positive heroes; many good omens are associated with them. That is why in life a person’s attitude towards these insects is good-natured and condescending.
What does a cricket look like, photo
Once insects become people’s neighbors in an apartment or house, everything changes. Not everyone likes the night trills, and in appearance the insects are more reminiscent of the less pleasant cockroaches.
The house cricket is a small insect. The body is slender, slightly flattened. It is covered by a hard shell ranging from grayish-yellow and straw-fawn to fairly dark shades of brown with specks, streaks and spots.
On the sides of the ovoid, flattened head are small eyes. Long antennae often exceed the size of the owner himself. The insect has well-developed wings. There are 3 pairs of legs. Thanks to the special structure of their hind legs, crickets can jump well. A characteristic feature of insects is the ability to produce specific trills and crickets.
Why and where do these insects appear in an apartment or house?
In nature, crickets live close to humans, preferring old buildings with many cracks, old rugs and high humidity. As the weather gets colder, insects move into new buildings, even found on the upper floors. The reason is renovation or complete reconstruction 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 in both as part of the product and in things from the previous home.
In human homes, insects need warmth and food. Damp, warm rooms with abundant food have become favorite places for crickets. Therefore, the lack of cleanliness and a considerable amount of food waste in uncovered trash cans are perceived by insects as invitation cards.
House crickets have chosen warm basements, warehouses, industrial premises, and heating plants as habitats. The “night musician” also settles in people’s homes. Crickets move indoors when it gets colder.
Insects are omnivores. Under natural conditions, they prefer plant foods. But the diet is diversified by eating other insects and even young individuals of their own species.
In human homes, crickets prefer leftover food: pieces of fruits, vegetables, bread crumbs. Crickets eat cockroaches, moths. The “singers” like drops of drinks, excluding alcoholic ones.
During the day, uninvited guests hide under baseboards and lurk in dark secluded corners.
You can detect “neighbors” only after dark by sound.
How to get rid of crickets (with reviews)
Not all people like night singing. Therefore, they try to evict the night singers, the cause of sleepless nights, from the house, despite the good omens associated with these insects.
There was one cricket living with us, first under the stairs, then he moved to the toilet. We sealed the cracks in the toilet through which he could pass, and from the heat generator side we gave him a ride against cockroaches and crawling insects with a lavender smell. A few minutes later I found him dead on the way to the air - apparently he came out to catch his breath, but he still died from the aerosol. Another one was killed by his mother in the toilet. And I vacuumed another one with a vacuum cleaner when he crawled into our house from the street. In the cold they become less mobile and are easy to catch. You can't let him warm up - his blood will warm up and he'll start jumping - no big deal. And only males cricket during the mating season - they attract females, who then lay 100–300 eggs. Crickets hatch from them and begin to scream the same way after 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, been fertilized and laid eggs. Briefly speaking. destroy immediately upon discovery.
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If there is a cricket in the house, it is important to get rid of the restless neighbor immediately, before several individuals have settled in the room: the cricket attracts females by chirping. After the “performers” reproduce, they will have to be treated with insecticides, and special service workers will have to be called in to carry out disinfestation.
To rid your home of uninvited guests, they use traps, “grandmother’s” products and chemicals.
However, the safest method remains drying and ventilating the premises. If there is a lack of humidity, crickets die or leave the apartments. And this option does not harm the health of the inhabitants of the house.
Traps
Feeders are one of the simplest methods of controlling crickets. A little molasses is mixed with water, the finished mass is placed in a deep vessel. Sweet insects will certainly go for a treat and end up inside the container. They won't be able to get out on their own.
The “catching pit” is more difficult to manufacture. For it, take a two-level container and place it on a bowl. Mix sweet corn flakes with milk, add sugar and place the bait in the lower container, pouring alcohol into the upper one.
The aroma of food will attract the attention of crickets. They will begin to fly over the container. Alcohol fumes will kill insects.
It is important to use alcohol: only it is harmful to insects.
A trap with a sticky surface will catch the cricket. The tape is hung where uninvited guests were noticed. It is recommended to purchase several sticky traps.
Folk recipes
Use wormwood infusion to repel crickets.
- Pour 2 large spoons of chopped herbs into a liter of water.
- Boil the mixture for 5 minutes, cover with a lid, remove from heat and leave for 2 hours.
- The product is filtered and poured into a container with a spray bottle.
- The composition is sprayed on all surfaces, including baseboards and window frames.
The powder of pyrethrum and Persian chamomile helps a lot in the fight against insects. Crickets cannot tolerate the characteristic aroma. Therefore, a natural remedy is used to scare away night “singers” and keep them out of the home. The powder is scattered in areas where restless neighbors appear.
Wax helps a lot. They light it, fumigating the apartment. Insects cannot stand the smell of such smoke and leave the room.
It is more troublesome for people to hunt. Since crickets are awake at night, you have to try to destroy the enemy with the lights on. You have to focus on the sound made by the insect. Having determined approximately the location of the singer, they light a flashlight and show dexterity. Fly swatters and slippers are also used.
Insects have excellent hearing and reaction: they do not allow you to get closer than 3 meters to themselves.
For private houses there is an old method. Sweet bait is prepared for crickets, leaving a sweet fruit in the place where uninvited guests are concentrated. At night, insects go for a tempting treat. This is where they are caught.
The cricket's habitat is filled with boiling water. This method works in a private house, but the method is unacceptable in an apartment.
If a cat or dog lives in the house, then catching a cricket will not be a problem for the owners of the premises. The animal catches the “night singers” and eats them. Insects are especially loved by more exotic pets, lizards, for example. It is for their feeding that insects are bred specifically.
It is good to hang feeders near the house so that birds catch crickets.
Chemicals
If the nocturnal performers managed to lay eggs, then more serious measures will be required. Among toxic drugs, products based on Dichlorvos are suitable. The drugs “Super”, “Varan”, “Neo” are effective.
The Domovenok gel has a detrimental effect on adults. The drug is used to treat the habitats of uninvited guests. The procedures are carried out over several days. The universal aerosol preparation “Prima-71”, “Neofos-2” works well.
Aerosol products are more effective.
Repeated insecticidal treatment will help get rid of young individuals hatched from eggs. It is carried out in compliance with safety precautions.
- Be sure to wear a protective suit, plastic goggles, and a respirator. To protect your hands - gloves.
- The doors and windows of the premises are closed, people and animals leave their homes. They even take out an aquarium with fish.
- The can of Dichlorvos is shaken several times and spraying begins. Treat all habitat areas in which crickets have been spotted. The composition must be sprayed onto all surfaces, not leaving the corners of the room without attention. It is optimal to do this from a distance of 25–30 centimeters.
- All areas are thoroughly treated, the composition is sprayed into the cracks, behind the baseboards that lag behind the walls. The container is held from the face at arm's length to protect it from toxic fumes.
- The premises are left after completion of disinfestation for 6 hours.
- After the specified time, the windows are opened, ventilating the home for half an hour. Remove dead insects using a vacuum cleaner. Be sure to throw the filter away from your home. They pass with a vacuum cleaner near the corners, near the baseboards, in the corners.
- Afterwards they do wet cleaning.
- After 40–70 days, repeated treatment is carried out to destroy adult insects that emerged from eggs that were undetected during the first treatment.
Traps alone will not cope with the proliferating “singers”. It is impossible to do without aerosols and mechanical destruction of egg clutches.
Of the modern insecticides, the drug Tarax is recognized as the most effective.
- It is diluted with water in the ratio recommended in the instructions; it is diluted with water and the room is treated.
- The insecticide forms a film when dried. After contact with it, insects die.
While the premises are being processed, the occupants will have to leave the premises.
Sunlight and fat negatively affect the effectiveness of the drug.
Most often, oviposition is found in the carpet pile. If there is already a family of rattles in the room, then it is best to purchase a special filter for trapping the smallest particles for a vacuum cleaner.
The masonry area is treated with a vacuum cleaner, the bag is hermetically sealed, packed in a plastic bag and thrown away. This will help get rid of house crickets forever.
In the absence of special insecticides, hairsprays and deodorants are effective. It is important to choose a product with a strong aroma. The aerosol is sprayed into the crack where the night troublemaker is hiding. The insect climbs out. Here you will have to show miracles of dexterity.
Comparative characteristics of methods of combating crickets
| Way | Advantages | Flaws |
| Sealing wax | Effective, drives away insects. You won't have to leave the apartment for a long time. Just carry out the processing yourself. | Smoke irritates the eyes. Care should be taken when fumigating. |
| Wormwood infusion | Natural, does not contain chemicals. Harmless to people and animals. No pungent smell. | Cooking takes time. |
| Pyrethrum | Naturalness of the product. Simplicity of application method. There is no need to prepare the drug. | You will have to clean up traces of the powder after the uninvited guests are evicted. The powder spreads throughout the apartment. |
| Duct tape | There is no need to catch insects. | Tapes stick to hair and skin, leaving unpleasant marks. |
| Hunting with improvised means | No harm to health. | It is ineffective if there is more than one cricket in the house. |
| Chemicals | Effective. Destroy all insects. | The processing will have to be repeated. You must leave the house during the work. Great care is required when working. |
| Ventilation, reduction of humidity | Safe for animals and people. Effective. There is no need to kill insects. | You can cool the room and dry out the air excessively. This is harmful to the health of the inhabitants of the house. |
If no action helps and the crickets become annoying at night, you need to contact a specialist.
Professionals will carry out disinfestation. During their time, however, they will have to leave the premises, and then carry out cleaning, clean textiles, furniture, and ventilate the home for a long time. But it’s worth it: the night guests will stop disturbing you.
However, in order not to have to re-experience all the “delights” of the struggle, it is advisable to carry out prevention.
How to prevent guests from returning
Sealing all cracks and cracks through which crickets can enter the house will help prevent re-infestation. Insects can enter a room if there are cracks and holes in the floor and baseboards near the sewer pipes.
- Mosquito nets are attached to the windows so that insects cannot get into the home.
- The corners near the batteries are also treated with special sprays to effectively destroy the larvae.
- Be sure to close the trash can tightly so as not to attract the smell of crickets.
- It is important not to leave crumbs on the table and immediately remove leftover food.
- Dampness in the premises is unacceptable. It is imperative to warn management company employees or sanitation workers about the accumulation of water in the basements.
- Residents of lower floors or private houses require special attention. In the evenings, it is necessary to close the curtains and lower the blinds so as not to attract uninvited guests from the world of insects with bright light.
- To illuminate the yard, it is recommended to use medium-power lamps, preferably yellow light.
- Ventilation grilles are covered with fine mesh.
- Compost heaps should be located at a distance from private houses, in the far corners of the plots.
- Greenery near the home is trimmed regularly; climbing plants are not recommended to be planted close to the home.
If night trills do not cause insomnia, and the appearance of insects does not seem repulsive, then the neighborhood can be quite pleasant. However, there are ways to get rid of restless guests. And they should be used so as not to turn life into constant stress.
Having settled in a house, a cricket can bring not only happiness and prosperity, as folk signs promise. are not always pleasant for residents and often interfere with normal sleep. There are several methods for solving the problem of how to get rid of crickets in an apartment, which will help in such a situation.
Reasons for the appearance of crickets in the house
There are 2 types of crickets common in Russia: and, which in the warm season prefer to live in natural conditions, living in the forest or near buildings. However, with the onset of the cold season, insects often move closer to human habitation in private houses or multi-storey buildings, where warmth, food and comfort await them.
Appearance and living conditions:
- belongs to the order of Orthoptera insects and prefers to live in warm and fairly humid places: boiler rooms, basements, and less often in apartments;
- house crickets are similar in appearance to grasshoppers, the body color is gray-yellow, size is up to 2.5 cm, field crickets have a black shell, both types are decorated with long mustaches;
- insects have 3 pairs of limbs: the hind ones - for jumping;
- at home, crickets feed on food waste, small insects (cockroaches and moths), and when hungry they can attack their relatives;
- during the daytime, they hide in cracks in the floor or in window frames, under baseboards, in dark secluded corners, and at night they hunt, making their own specific sounds.
Ways crickets appear in the house:
- can come to light at night;
- they adore the smell of garbage, especially rotting, smelling it from afar;
- in hot months, insects look for places with high humidity;
- easily jump into open doors or windows.
Methods to combat crickets
One of the safest ways to get rid of crickets in the house is to thoroughly dry and ventilate the room, which the insects will not like and will force them to leave their habitable places.
When a homeowner thinks about getting a cricket out of the apartment, the first thing that comes to mind is the desire to catch it. It seems that by its “songs” you can easily determine the location, then quickly find the cricket. However, this is not easy to do due to the fact that insects very sensitively pick up sounds and air vibrations, especially when a “hunter” approaches, and quickly hide.
An effective way to catch crickets is to hang sticky tape or insect traps, which you can hang several of around the room.
Folk recipes for making cricket traps recommend:
- Make a feeder in a deep container, into which a solution of sweet molasses and water is poured: the insects will come to eat, but they will not be able to get back out.
- A “catching pit” for crickets is made from a container consisting of 2 levels: a bowl with milk, sugar and corn flakes is placed at the bottom, and alcohol is poured at the top. Insects attracted by the smell of sweets will jump around the container, and alcohol fumes will have a detrimental effect on them.
On a note!
Under favorable conditions, a female cricket that lives in an apartment or house can reproduce throughout the year. Moreover, during the season it is capable of laying up to 180 eggs, from which larvae quickly emerge, gradually growing into adults. And then the number of “singers” in the room will increase sharply.
If insects in the house begin to multiply, then traps will no longer help in such a situation and other measures will have to be used:
- traditional methods of repelling insects;
- chemical insecticidal preparations to kill pests.
Folk remedies
In order to drive crickets out of the room, folk methods recommend the use of herbal decoctions based on fragrant herbs:
- Wormwood has a pungent odor that can repel many types of insects. To prepare the decoction, take 2 tbsp. l. chopped herbs and boil for 5 minutes, then cover with a lid and leave for 2 hours. After filtering, the solution is poured into a spray bottle and sprayed on the floors, walls, window and door frames, and baseboards.
- Pyrethrum – Sold in powder form, made from Dalmatian chamomile, which is a good pest repellent. It needs to be scattered in those places where the cricket is supposedly hiding in order to drive it out.
- Another method is the use of fumigation with ignited sealing wax: a sharp unpleasant odor appears that will force insects to leave the room.
- An old method that can be used to remove a cricket from a private home: fishing for sweet fruits, in which the pest should be lured out, and then caught using a jar, and its habitat should be poured with boiling water. The further fate of the “singer” depends on the bloodthirstiness of the person: if it is a pity to kill a cricket, then it can be released into the wild away from home.
Interesting!
To drive the annoying “singer” out of the room, it is not necessary to use poisonous aerosols. Scented hairspray or deodorant with a strong scent are also great. It is sprayed into the cracks where the insect lives. After which it will come out, and then you need to catch the cricket using effort and sleight of hand.
Chemical control agents
When there are crickets in the house, of which there is no one knows how many and cannot be detected in any way, and there is a possibility of pests multiplying, then they can only be combated with the help of insecticidal aerosols or sprays designed to destroy flying and crawling insects.
Effective pest control products:
- Dichlorvos is the most popular odorless aerosol product. When spraying such insecticides, be sure to wear a respirator or protective mask. Price – 75 rub.
- Tornado - designed to destroy insect pests: cockroaches, spiders, crickets, cost - about 90 rubles. for 100 ml bottle.
- Doctor Klaus is a universal spray against insects, which must be sprayed in their habitats, the cost is about 230 rubles.
- Raid is an aerosol for fighting small insects; the container has a special nozzle for treating hard-to-reach places; after spraying, be sure to ventilate the room. Price – 120 rub.
- Tarax - insect killer, price 120 rubles.
Destruction of cricket nests
To get rid of a cricket in the house forever, it will not be enough to just catch or destroy the “singer” itself, but it is necessary to take into account the options for constructing a nest for the female so that the next generation of “musicians” does not appear in the house.
Therefore, it is imperative to inspect all the places in the house where egg laying may be located:
- basement;
- check all the cracks in wooden surfaces on the floor, baseboards, furniture, dark corners and hard-to-reach places.
To get rid of nests, you need:
- Vacuum crevices, floors, carpets and corners at maximum power;
- if necessary, you can invite specialists to exterminate pests in the house;
- Treat the basement and baseboards with an aerosol to kill harmful insects, preferably twice.
Preventing the appearance of crickets in the house
To avoid the reappearance of crickets in the house, it is necessary to block all ways for them to enter the room: seal all the cracks, put a mesh on the ventilation holes, and prevent high humidity in the apartment.
If you notice gnawed stems of seedlings or eaten leaves, it means you have crickets in your garden. Let's look at how to get rid of them in detail. Around the beginning of April, at the dacha, as soon as evening comes, the “night musicians”—crickets—start trilling. The chirping of crickets is directly associated with summer, but all the romance ends there, since in addition to the “songs” they cause significant damage to garden plantings. These insects have a good appetite and happily feed on all vegetables and cereals.
Black cricket close-up photo:
Crickets, for those who are not familiar with them, look like black grasshoppers in the garden, jumping just as briskly. Crickets in the garden, what harm do they do? These insects are omnivores; they cause the same damage to strawberry bushes, potatoes, corn, legumes, and other plants. Spraying the garden with chemicals is not always advisable, since the berries or vegetables will subsequently be eaten. If you follow certain rules, you can still use chemicals, but today there is a worthy bio-alternative.
What do crickets eat in the garden? The answer is everyone! In addition to their plant diet, these insects do not disdain their relatives, their larvae, worms, and dead animals. Even their own clutches of eggs, as well as young representatives of their species, can become “dinner” for adult insects.
An adult reaches a length of 1.5-2 cm and has a black body color. The black cricket (field) is the most common species of the cricket family.
Field cricket:
Field (black) cricket, photo Pest control: drugs and methods
To protect vegetable gardens from this insect, complex measures are practiced - agrotechnical and chemical. Loosening the soil and thoroughly digging it in the fall slightly reduces the number of pests.
Also, to reduce the number of insects, the area is treated with Nemabact or Antonem-F. These are biological products, they are considered safe for humans, pets, birds, and plants. These products give good results and are very effective.
The test results showed that 4 days after treatment, 78% of crickets die, and after 30 days - 100%. Before fighting crickets in the garden, the drug is diluted with warm water 1:100; in terms of temperature, it should be similar to the soil on the site. Irrigate the soil directly, preferably during rain, in the late afternoon. The container with the composition must be shaken periodically, and after treatment, additionally water the entire area (to facilitate the penetration of the drug deep into the soil). These preparations can be sprayed on the ground even during the growing season of plants.
I have not seen these drugs on open sale, but they can be ordered in online stores, which, in addition to Nemabact or Antonem-F, offer “Protection” soil, which contains a predatory nematode that successfully fights soil pests, including crickets.
If you choose chemicals, then before poisoning pests in your garden, carefully read the instructions. It is always necessary to maintain the prescribed period so that the drug completely “comes out” of the plant before eating the fruit. For such purposes, “Karbofos” (8-10 ml per 10 liters of water) or “Decis” (3 ml per 10 liters of water) is most often used.
Other methods against crickets
Birds are our selfless helpers in the fight against crickets. To attract their attention, install birdhouses and all kinds of feeders on the site. Tits and starlings are the most active fighters. As practice has shown, the birds cope excellently with the “task”; the main thing is to remember to regularly replenish the feeders so that they feel at home on the site.
If there are snakes in your dacha, this is very good for you and bad for crickets. The fight against black crickets in the garden will become even more productive if the grass snakes help the birds.
Harmless, but very useful for fighting crickets in a country pool
Hedgehogs will also help you deal with crickets - this is their favorite treat.
When you harvest, make sure that there are no unnecessary objects, remnants of building materials, covering films, etc. left between the beds. When digging up your garden in the fall, leave it clean and remove everything unnecessary - crickets love to spend the winter in wooden fragments and under layers of film.
Box baits for insects (helium, granular), for example, “Delicia,” show good results. They can be placed between the beds, as well as in places where pests accumulate.
Folk remedies for crickets
If you are haunted by crickets in your garden, folk remedies can also help.
Wormwood is good against these pests in the form of a strong decoction for treating the soil, or simply spread between the beds and plants. To do this, take a metal bucket, fill it tightly with wormwood grass, fill it with water, and put it on the fire. You need to wait until the water boils, remove the bucket from the heat, dilute the resulting broth with water 1 to 4. The resulting liquid must be used to treat all the soil in the area, especially where there are cricket burrows.
Cricket and his holes After a couple of days, we loosen the soil and cultivate the soil again - this method is not a panacea, but it is harmless and significantly reduces the number of pests. The larvae of these insects also die from wormwood.
Sprinkling the soil near the stem with red hot pepper powder repels the pest. Sometimes pepper is mixed with tobacco dust (sold for gardeners) and cultivated between the beds. Neutralized poultry droppings also help well for these purposes.
An additional technique can be, oddly enough, plastic film; it is especially good to use in the spring or in cool weather. Crickets are heat-loving insects; if you spread crumpled pieces of film around the area, then at nightfall they will crawl inside the folds. In the morning you can start the “hunt”, the main thing is to show dexterity, since crickets are jumping and are afraid of bright lighting.
If you talk to summer residents about this topic, you can learn many different ways to remove crickets from the garden.
For example, draft beer poured into the bottom of a three-liter can (about a quarter of the capacity) is an effective bait for insects. To do this, the bottle is buried up to the neck. Attracted by the grainy smell of beer, the pests fall into the trap and drown.
The cricket escapes from the chase At first, pests can be exterminated mechanically, but keep in mind that they are prolific and actively reproduce with the onset of warm weather.
If you have crickets in your garden, you have already decided how to get rid of them and even purchased chemicals, remember that the frequency of irrigation is a maximum of 2 times! At least 30 days must pass since the last treatment, only then can you begin harvesting.
It is very difficult to get rid of crickets, since there are practically no specialized means to combat these insects, while it is almost impossible to use crickets with compounds designed to combat domestic insects, such as ants and, for example. The fight against these insects can be made effective; there are several ways to get rid of them.
1. Catch a cricket
As you know, crickets cause the most disturbance to apartment residents due to the sounds they make at night. However, crickets not only sing, but also actively move. If there is only one cricket living in the house, the easiest way to get rid of it is to kill it in the dark.
2. Create conditions that are far from natural
Crickets live in conditions of high humidity, which is why in apartments they most often live in bathrooms, since it is here that the conditions are as close as possible to the natural environment for crickets. If conditions change and the bathroom, or any other room in which the cricket has settled, becomes very dry, the insect will have to find a new habitat, or it will simply die due to lack of moisture. Fighting crickets using dryness is quite simple; in addition, this method allows you to get rid of the insect quickly enough without the risk of harming the health of humans or animals living in this apartment.
3. Chemical attack
Some insect control chemicals are known to be very effective and can be your best bet in controlling crickets. However, this method should be used only if a family of crickets has settled in the house and it is simply impossible to get rid of them by other methods. However, when using toxic products, such as Dichlorvos, for example, it is worth remembering that they are dangerous for people and pets, and are also very toxic. That is why, when using this method, you should take care not to stay in the treated apartment for at least 24 hours, and after that ensure the housing is thoroughly ventilated.
It is difficult to get rid of crickets, largely because even specialized pest control services do not clean your home of these insects. However, it is always worth remembering that the methods described above for combating crickets are very effective, although extremely simple, with their help you can even clear your house of crickets in a short time, as well as prevent their further appearance in your home.
Cricket! An interesting insect, it loves a humid environment and a dark place; at night, “guests” sing a ringing trill, and only males have this ability. Getting rid of one cricket is not difficult, but when there are hordes of them, they can harm even plants. Crickets love to eat potatoes, carrots, onions, beets, tomatoes, beans, wheat and corn. The harvest is unlikely to become richer from this.
Crickets can settle not only in the garden, but even in private houses or apartments, especially the first floors. It’s easy to get rid of it in an apartment; it’s enough to create unfavorable living conditions - dryness, or treat it with Dichlorvos. During chemical treatment, it is better to leave the home for a day, since the poisonous drug is very toxic. If there is only one cricket, then listen to where it sings, put gloves or a plastic bag on your hands and try to catch it. And with the help of a vacuum cleaner you can destroy possible egg laying.
But what to do when there are crickets in the garden beds? Here everything is not so simple and ordinary Dichlorvos will no longer help.
Prevention of pest occurrence
To avoid having to think about how to get rid of crickets, make a few in the garden, not forgetting. Clear the area of wooden objects, then insects will not have a place to hibernate.
Ventilate your country house and keep it away from moisture.
How to get rid of crickets in the country
In the fight for the harvest, all means are good, so we prepare a solution of Karbofos (3-6 g per 5 liters of water) or Decis (3 ml per 10 liters of water) and spray our beds. 
The drug "Lindane" is effective, it will help get rid of crickets and other insect pests, but it is very toxic and dangerous for humans and animals. Chemicals to kill crickets are used no more than 2 times, the last one should not be later than 15 days before harvest! Insects die very quickly from chemicals.
The IVF drug “Nemabakt” helps against crickets. First, it is diluted with water according to the instructions, and then the soil is treated in the evening, preferably at the time of rain or watering, so that the drug penetrates well into the soil. Insects die within a month, but already 4-5 days after application there are significantly fewer of them. These biological products are good because they are environmentally friendly, i.e. harmless to humans. Treatment is carried out during the growing season. They also use “Delicia” baits, which are placed along garden paths and in places where pests accumulate.
2-3 tits or starlings will save your harvest even without the use of chemicals; these are active enemies of crickets. If you want to bring it for the summer, then temporarily refrain from this idea, since a predator will definitely get to the birdhouses. To keep the birds at your dacha, do not forget to feed them.
From folk remedies Wormwood grass will help in the fight against crickets. Make a strong decoction (fill a metal bucket with grass, add water and bring to a boil), then dilute it with water 1:4 and pour over the soil and burrows. After 2 days, loosen and pour the broth again. You may not exterminate all the crickets, but you will reduce the number. This product is harmless to humans. In addition, wormwood is laid out between rows.
Red pepper powder is mixed with and sprinkled around plants and between rows.
In the summer, the soil is loosened and dug up in the fall, removing all wood chips and covering film.
