Cricket Control Services on Cape Cod & Plymouth County

The chirping of crickets can be a welcome sound on a peaceful evening out. A nice stroll, the refreshing and salty New England coastal breeze, and a chorus of crickets to round out the scene.

But cricket chirps in your home is another story. Even less welcome is a cricket’s hunger-- since they will dine on paper, cloth, and other plant-fiber products. And your plants, should you have any. All in all, crickets in your home can mean an incessant chirping you cannot escape, and damage to books, clothes, furniture, carpets, and so on.

Cricket Species Found In New England

New England is home to several different species of cricket, including camel crickets, field crickets, and house crickets. None of them pose any threat to humans, but they do sometimes wander indoors, chirping away and eating what they please.

Important Tips For Dealing With Crickets In Your Home

As with most pests, there are two important measures to address when it comes to removing crickets from your property.

1. The most immediate is to remove the crickets that are there, and any eggs that you can find.
2. The second measure is more preventative: seal up any gaps, holes, cracks, and other spaces that may serve as a passage for crickets (or other pests, including mice!) to come and go from your home. A thorough inspection of your home, and appropriate sealing, can help save you headaches in the future.

The good news is that crickets are mostly benign pests, but in your home, they are pests nonetheless.