Arrrrgggg! This cricket is driving me CRAZY!!!

dani21496

dani21496

Cathlete
Dani, the only thing I can think of is one of those big lizards or chameleons that people keep as pets. Do you know anyone with those?:)

Pinky
 
I hate crickets so I can totally relate...You're better than me thought because I couldn't sit there...someone would have to handle the matter for me...immediately!! Either that or I'd have to sit someplace else until it was gone.

~Marietta
FITXME
 
I'm with Marietta. I couldn't sit and work knowing a cricket could jump out at any time.

That reminds me.... I saw a HUGE roach at the gym the other day (where I work). It was in the abs/stretching area. I've been afraid to get on the floor ever since. It REALLY grossed me out.:eek: x(
 
That is so funny. A friend of mine who works at home (we're both transcriptionists) for the last couple of weeks has had a bird come and peck on her window every morning while she is trying to work. She said it is driving her crazy.
 
>Dani, the only thing I can think of is one of those big
>lizards or chameleons that people keep as pets. Do you know
>anyone with those?:)
>
>Pinky

I don't have lizards or chameleons, but I have crickets in my basement in the summer, and my cats like to hunt them: they bring them up into the living room ( thank goodness I don't have carpet) and start chasing them around and chewing on them. I often find cricket "parts" (a leg here, a limbless torso there) in the morning.
 
LOL!! Kathryn, I was just going to offer Bailey's (our cat) services for a seek and destroy mission. He has to take frequent breaks though. He dismembers crickets and any bug actually, and I have to collect the parts. ICK! Not a bug person.

Autumn
 
I had a cricket(s) under my kitchen stove one year and it was sooo loud it drove me nuts most of that summer. It must have had a profound psycho effect on me because I had a dream one night that that cricket sound was actually the sound of them mating (like the bed springs or something ! oh I'm sorry for that image), and that baby crickets were appearing everywhere. The next day I went and got a bag full of sticky traps and pulled that stove outa there! I put those sticky traps everywhere and, well I've never been the same since ;-) but I did get rid of the crickets.
 
This is so funny! LOL!!!
And I can totally relate, because just yesterday we had a cricket inside the house, who went on and on and on for a few hours. But every time I went to search for it, it became quiet. x( He must have finally made his way outside somehow, because I haven't heard him today.

We also have a nest full of baby birds in our fireplace! They chirp constantly. I was so worried they would die with all this heat, but I guess they are ok. The momma bird has been feeding them, so I hope they are going to make it. I am praying they can fly out of the chimney on their own. I called the SPCA, thinking they could get them out of the chimney, but they "don't do that". They referred me to Animal Control, but they "don't do that either". x( So, THEY referred me to some man who "might get them out", but he wants $75 just to come out and "see". And then he starts at $195, to "try" to get them out. He wouldn't tell me what he would do with the chicks, after he got them out, so I opted to leave them be. I suspect he would "get rid" of them. And, my husband said that if we try to rescue the chicks from the chimney ourselves, once we touch the nest, the mother bird won't feed her chicks anymore.

So, chirp! chirp! chirp! they go -- all day and night! lol

Be happy you only have a little cricket! LOL
 
>That is so funny. A friend of mine who works at home (we're
>both transcriptionists) for the last couple of weeks has had a
>bird come and peck on her window every morning while she is
>trying to work. She said it is driving her crazy.

I think that bird wants some food in the feeder! I've heard of chickadees doing that when they figure out that birdfood comes from the people in the house. I'll bet a full bird feeder would keep that bird at bay!
 
>Day #3!!!! Cricket still chirping like mad behind my desk.
>Another day working with this loud chirping! Oy!!!!!
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I wonder what the life span of a cricket is? They certainly can't live very long (several weeks?).

In the past, I've been woken up by one single cricket chirping somewhere. A group of crickets makes a nice "outdorsey" sound. One cricket is just annoying. And the minute you try to find it, it shuts up. Then you turn your back, and it starts chirping agaiin.

What do crickets eat? Could you lure it out of hiding with a tempting (to cricekts) treat?
 
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