Crickets, Crickets, go AWAY!

Anyone else still suffering from these harmless yet CREEPY bugs? It's been too long now..they are not dying off - today while working in the basement I killed about five HUGE crickets (they don't make noise).
It's getting out of hand :( I really don't want to pay someone to come and kill them. I thought it was just the south shore - however my SIL in the north shore just started getting them too. These crickets are FREAKING ME OUT. Help!

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my stepdaughter said they have them at her Mom's house too, they are sort of shore shore. I've never heard of it before, I guess an exterminator is the only solution.

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Wow, I haven't heard one in ages...sorry, I don't know what to tell you. It's probably cuz it hasn't gotten that cold out.

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I had 3 of them in my house one day last week. After screaming for 10 min while trying to catch it I realized what it was. My neighbors were all complaining about them too. South Shore here too

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My sister had an outbreak of them last year too. Rockville Centre.

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I've had a couple, on occasion. I have found that they appear when I let the basement get a bit damp. If I make sure the dehumidifier is doing its job then I've been fine. They are some nasty bugs though. They give me the creeps!

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We have them too. The ones that jump several feet when you get near them to kill them. Uggh, I can't wait until they go away for the winter. We don't do any exterminating because of the kids.

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We have them EVERY YEAR!!! We live in E. Northport in a basement apartment (thank goodness we are closing on a condo soon....)
They are the CREEPIEST looking things I have ever seen! The weather needs to get cold so they will die!!!!

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My mom has had about 5 in her house in the last month!! Mostly in the laundry room (1st floor) and one in her bedroom (3rd floor). She's in oceanside.

But we were wondering.. are they crickets??? They kinda look like them, but the ones my mom has in her house have really long skinny legs like spiders and a body that looks like a shrimp almost. Any idea what those are?

ETA: They jump like crazy when you go near them or turn on the light.

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Posted by CaMacho

My mom has had about 5 in her house in the last month!! Mostly in the laundry room (1st floor) and one in her bedroom (3rd floor). She's in oceanside.

But we were wondering.. are they crickets??? They kinda look like them, but the ones my mom has in her house have really long skinny legs like spiders and a body that looks like a shrimp almost. Any idea what those are?

ETA: They jump like crazy when you go near them or turn on the light.

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Oooh ok so I just did some research and put my description of the bug in google and I think I found what it is!!!! A camel cricket:





Sorry the pics are kind creepy...

Here's the site:

http://whatsthatbug.com/crickets.html


DKF - are these what you have too????

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Believe it or not, I never saw a cricket until I moved to LI. I lived in NYC for about 15 years, and before that, in NJ with my parents. There must have been crickets, but I don't remember them.

The first time I ever saw one was in our basement storage unit. I thought they were weird jumping spiders, until DH explained what they were.

But yes, we still have them in the basement storage area. I would think they should be gone soon.

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my mom's house (basement) is always infested with them in the summer...i'm surprised you still have them now! i always just trapped them and let them go like 3 houses down from my house. they are CREEPY!!

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Yeah, those are totally them! They are camel crickets - and they are the ones that DON'T make noise.

Here's what we do. We take one of the newspapers in its original plastic and use it as our "cricket wacker". I stealth kill them with these - but you have to be QUICK and wack them fast. They ooze too - they are like these big nasty creatures. They're just so gross (just like the picture).

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My aunt had them and she had to "bomb" her basement - I really don't want to do that b/c I don't want to expose us to chemicals.

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OMG, yes, its camel crickets we have.

The good news is that I haven't seen any hoppig around downstairs lately. Maybe they are gone for the winter!

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Yup!!! We have them here too! I think I am calling an exterminator because I skeeve this suckers in the worst way.

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I was reading that they love cardboard boxes (to eat) and the dampness of the basement. The reason why they jump at you is because their vision is so bad. They don't know if they're jumping at you or away from you.

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We found 3 last year in our basement........and not one since. We did get an exterminator but I am so thankful not one since. I had no clue what these crazy spider/shrimp/cricket things were until I researched them too.

My friend keeps getting them and is petrified.........who isnt???

But that is interesting as I read a post above that dehumidifiers seem to keep them away and we have ours on all the time. No wonder why we havent see any.

So that must be the trick. I have to tell my friend to get one.

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We have these in our basement. They freak me the H E L L out!!!

They have recently started poppin gup in our kitchen and I even found 2 in our bathroom the other day. I was so grossed out. I left the house and told DH I wasn't coming back until they were all gone.

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We grew up with them in valley stream. My borhter and I had our rooms in the basement, every year we would chase them into each others room as to not have to see them.

We then would just leave the vacuum out and suck them up as we saw them.

They are horrible

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This week I will get a basement humidifier and 10 sticky traps.

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