we're freaking out....how do you get rid of these things?? WHERE DO THEY COME FROM?

8/20/2007 11:12:12 PM

get a camel to step on em... durrrrrrr

8/20/2007 11:12:32 PM

I hate those fuckers.

8/20/2007 11:12:40 PM

camel crickets eh... sounds like Canada's doing.

8/20/2007 11:12:56 PM

YOU HAVE TO FIND THEIR KING

once you have him in your clutches assemble all of the camel crickets

in front of the crickets, and without mercy, bite the head off of the king cricket

then seal the windows and doors with salt and a quick blessing

your house should be safe after that

8/20/2007 11:13:18 PM

whats a camel cricket?

gc sucks...the upstairs gets too hot and the electric bill is rediculous

8/20/2007 11:13:25 PM

vacuum cleaner

8/20/2007 11:13:40 PM

i just google imaged a camel cricket

by far the nastiest thing i have seen in a while.

maybe you can go to the grocery store and get some bug spray or set some traps

8/20/2007 11:14:30 PM

my roomate and i were sitting on the couch, watchin the hills, and all the sudden we look up and there is one on the ceiling above my head. then i look down and there is a giant one on the couch hopping right at my roomate, in attack mode!!!!

8/20/2007 11:15:22 PM

i've killed like 3 of them in the past month...i hate them also...but dnl>bugs

8/20/2007 11:15:57 PM

Quote :

" watchin the hills"

theres your problem

8/20/2007 11:16:10 PM

Camel cricket. Wonder if that pic will work...

Anyway, I sprayed the dark areas of my old apartment with RAID, then sprayed along any entryways and along under the doorway to the stacked washer/dryer laundry unit (which was where they were living). I didn't see them again since they went into hiding after that, though I did see a large ping-pong ball sized camel cricket in my kitchen later on that I tried to throw a textbook at, missed, and then I never saw that camel cricket again.

They fucking suck. I'd get a professional opinion and maybe have your place sprayed by a pro.

8/20/2007 11:16:22 PM

ok, going to the grocery store hopefully to find something to kill these nasty things with!! leave suggestions!!!!

8/20/2007 11:16:41 PM

i hear crumbled crackers work wonders for getting rid of them.

8/20/2007 11:17:35 PM

crush them with your camel toe

8/20/2007 11:17:36 PM

whoa whoa, first off, they attack?!!! and secondly they're as big as ping pong balls

8/20/2007 11:17:38 PM

Ortho Home Defense does the job around my house. I don't know specifically about these crickets being covered, but it's good stuff. The big jug is ~$14 at Lowes. Spray it inside, outside, and in your crawlspace.

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 11:19 PM. Reason : .]

8/20/2007 11:19:27 PM

Quote :

"crush them with your camel toe"

this

8/20/2007 11:20:47 PM

sooooooo wait.....we get those kind of bugs here

i've been in north carolina for a long time....i've never seen one or even heard of one.

i need facts people because now i'm quite frightened

8/20/2007 11:21:28 PM

i never knew their name but seen them a ton since i was young

8/20/2007 11:22:59 PM

holy shit we were just spraying raid along the front door and the biggest one yet popped out. my roomate literally sprayed it with raid for a whole minute and it was still hopping. so she threw my shoe at it. im gonna be sick. ps is raid dangerous because we just sprayed about a whole can of it at that stupid bug.

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 11:27 PM. Reason : what time does food lion on avent ferry close?]

8/20/2007 11:26:27 PM

Raid is dangerous if you are breathing in the mist, or spraying it on yourself. If you smell the petrochemical or floral smell of Raid, you are not in danger of dying. The smell might make you sick, but the real problems come from being in direct contact with it and not washing it off/being unable to wash it off.

They are pretty hard to kill with spray stuff. Honestly I don't think you can argue with the shoe defense. Just wear some stompin shoes and go to town. Use a tennis racket for when they become airborne.

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 11:33 PM. Reason : Go to TOWN. TOWN!!!]

8/20/2007 11:28:33 PM

if you ingest raid you get bad diarrhea

foodlion closes at 12...so you got 30 minutes

and what a waste of raid...yall are such girls

8/20/2007 11:30:32 PM

well obviously we aren't injecting it

[Edited on August 20, 2007 at 11:31 PM. Reason : blah phantom edit ]

8/20/2007 11:31:09 PM

hahah

soon as i hit "post reply" i was like dammit

8/20/2007 11:32:31 PM

^that's usually our response, as well

8/20/2007 11:45:20 PM

it's their three foot vertical jump that always got me freaked out


i hate those fuckers

8/20/2007 11:48:04 PM

so camel crickets bother you but the swarms of gnats before didnt?

8/21/2007 12:34:15 AM

hairspray is your friend when fighting these things

adding a lighter to the mix makes it fun too!

8/21/2007 12:34:32 AM

Kensington Park used to be fucking infested with those things

8/21/2007 12:41:25 AM

are camel crickets the same thing as pubic lice?

8/21/2007 12:42:43 AM

ok wait.

Really. These things are HARMLESS.

They're creepy-looking, yes. But they don't make noise, they don't bite, and other than being in the way I don't think they do any damage whatsoever. I still wouldn't want an infestation of them in my house, but...calm down.

8/21/2007 12:48:33 AM

I have never seen these crickets as bad as in my home in Burlington. I went in to the crawl space a couple times to run some wire and looked up only to see the swarms of them holding on to the rafters. We had those pre-baited sticky trap strips that can catch all kinds of things and they were always catching some of those crickets.

8/21/2007 12:50:19 AM

think of it this way

free bait

8/21/2007 12:51:26 AM

you should just hire a bunch of irish dancers to come to your house

dinner and a show

am i right?

8/21/2007 12:52:22 AM

Oh, they don't make noise?

In that case I wouldn't care too much, except being freaked out when one jumped on me.

I would rather MUCH have an infestation of these things than regular crickets.

Crickets =

[Edited on August 21, 2007 at 12:53 AM. Reason : ]

8/21/2007 12:53:02 AM

Quote :

"I would rather MUCH have an infestation of these things than regular crickets."

It's the moon crickets that scare me.

8/21/2007 1:30:55 AM

go in your crawlspace, and pull back some of the floor insulation, i can guarantee there are hundreds in there

8/21/2007 2:13:01 AM

yeah moon crickets are the worst.

always hootin' and hollerin'

8/21/2007 9:36:10 AM

Fogger

8/21/2007 9:45:25 AM

that's a badass looking bug. good pictures.

but yah,

Quote :

"fog em"

get's em every time. i put two of them foggers under my house and two out in the middle of the yard. get's er done.

8/21/2007 9:47:46 AM

dear sweet jesus, i was just hanging out watching hgtv, eatin my lunch and this fucker popped out from under the couch in straight up ATTACK MODE! i swear it looked me right in the eyes as it was hopping towards me, i almost threw up. it took me four pairs of shoes before i got him (yeah, i have bad aim but i was standing as far away as possible when i was throwing them - those suckers can jump pretty far)...











where do i get this fogger stuff? home depot?

9/3/2007 2:54:19 PM

home depot has them


harris teeter sells a good fogger too

it's like 11 bucks for a package of 3

9/3/2007 2:57:57 PM

oh grow a fucking pair, it's a harmless cricket, just squish it with your foot or pick it up and throw it outside or something.

But yes places like home depot or even grocery stores have various insecticides.

9/3/2007 2:58:26 PM

I don't think she can grow a pair

[Edited on September 3, 2007 at 2:59 PM. Reason : I'd hope not]

9/3/2007 2:59:15 PM

I can 100% vouch that these things are harmless. They're kinda scary when they get near you all of a sudden when you're not expecting it, but just get a shoe and smash them. They live in dark areas in hordes and probably come in through cracks in the wall. I've lived peacefully with them occasionally infiltrating my home for the past 11 years and they don't do anything to you. There are much much worse things you could have in your house than these things.

Plus, they're fragile so it's not hard to kill them.

9/3/2007 3:12:52 PM

aha. it went seemingly unnoticed, but aaronburro totally won the shit out of this thread.

[Edited on September 3, 2007 at 3:55 PM. Reason : on his 3rd reply, not the first 2.]

9/3/2007 3:54:47 PM

i generally like to destroy these things with old magazines. it's like small game hunting when i would see these things around my old house.

9/3/2007 5:30:02 PM

I've had great success by mixing 1/2 part BORAX with 1/2 part BUTTER (or margarine). The little suckers eat the poison ... die ... then his friends eat him ... and they die ... and it's a regular cannibalistic orgy. Disgusting sounding, but it kills them and it's cheap.

9/3/2007 6:02:05 PM

what do you do with the butter? put it in a bowl by the door or something?

9/3/2007 6:08:25 PM