Cricket Control

Cricket Control

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Has your home become infested by the notorious cave cricket, also known as the camel cricket or spider cricket? These pests are an invasive species with a knack for making their way into your home. If you're dealing with cave crickets, Pied Piper Pest Control is your best line of defense in exterminating them!

Cave Cricket Control

The pest control team at Pied Piper are experts at exterminating cave crickets on Long Island, with decades of experience eliminating cricket infestations for New York and Long Island residents. The cave cricket is the most common cricket found in homes on Long Island and is different from the field crickets you may see in your yard. They are attracted to cool, damp areas, making your basement an ideal environment. They are also commonly found near shaded areas, in laundry rooms or bathrooms, drains and sewers, leaves, and debris. 

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What are Camel Crickets?

Camel crickets were introduced to the U.S. more than 100 years ago, Helmberger said. The most extensive research on the species has been done in the South, but they've made their way up the East Coast in recent years.


They're dark brown in color, with long legs and antennae that can make adults more than 4 inches long, Helmberger said. These crickets don't have wings, so they can't chirp, but their large hind legs allow them to jump several feet.


“They are indeed harmless," he said. "They don’t bite, they don’t sting, consume food or damage anything."


If you try to kill or capture one, there's a good chance it will jump away — sometimes at your face. "They have really bad eye sight, so anything they perceive as a possible threat, they blindly jump at it," Helmburger explained. "Sometimes when disturbed, they can jump up at you."


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What Do Cave Crickets Look Like?

Cave crickets, or camel crickets, and spider crickets have a few signature identifiers that make them hard to mistake, including:


  • A brown body, often covered in various shades of brown spots
  • A large, hump-shaped back with 6 legs
  • Large, drumstick-like back legs
  • A long set of antennae 


Although cave crickets are wingless, their long back legs allow them to make powerful jumpers, making them both difficult and nerve-wracking to catch.


Cave crickets also have a long set of antennae and do not chirp like other crickets.

What Attracts Cave Crickets? 

The cave cricket is active all year-round, and while usually residing in cool, damp areas, they begin searching for warmer places to spend the fall and winter in New York. You can find them hanging out around your foundation, and ultimately inside your home. Cave crickets lay eggs in the spring that will hatch within a few weeks. Because of their behavior, you will usually see a spike in cave cricket activity in the spring as they're hatching and in the fall as they're moving into warmer areas. 

Can Cave Crickets Cause Damage?

While camel crickets do not usually bite people, they do have chewing mouthparts that can cause damage to materials such as fabrics or clothes. Cave crickets are not poisonous and are more often seen as a scary nuisance more than anything. 

How To Get Rid of Cave Crickets

Pied Piper Pest Control offers an integrated pest management (IPM) approach to cave cricket control, which includes an assessment of your property and exclusion suggestions, as well as environmentally friendly treatment options. Homeowners can take steps to prevent cave crickets from invading their homes, such as:

Eliminating moisture in basement areas by using a dehumidifier

Sealing cracks and crevices around the foundation

Inspecting and sealing windows and checking screens for holes

Clearing debris away from the structure of your home to eliminate possible breeding sites

Check out or other pest control services to see how we can better serve your family, removing cave crickets and a variety of other pests around your home. 

Decades of Effective Cricket Control

Pied Piper has been offering cricket control in New York and Long Island for decades. Over that time, we have streamlined and perfected our approach to eliminating cave crickets. We can offer top-notch cricket removal to all of the homes we treat. We offer our services in the following locations:

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