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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:23 AM
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    There is a cricket in the wall between my sewing area and the water heater closet. It has been chirping 24 hours a day for 2 days now. I've been trying to ignore it but this morning it's driving me crazy. I have to go outside just to get a break from the noise. I've banged on the wall but it only stops for a second. GRRRR!!!! I don't know how much more I can take!!!
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:25 AM
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    OH, I sympathize! Get some roach traps and set one in there. Or a spray (yuck).
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:27 AM
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    Oh bless your heart, I understand. My one bedroom apartment is on the lower level of the bldg and it overlooks a dense forest.....the down side is that my apartment attracts crickets...not just crickets but those great big crickets that look like spiders and jump around. I've sprayed the entire apartment with Ambro something another,I'm sorry, but I'm not a cricket hugger ! SO, the little pests have taken to sitting outside my front door and screeching for hours and hours, especially during the night. I've tried turned the porch light on, not turning it on, spraying out there but they still do it.

    I have no answers but I understand. It is sort of like when you notice a neighbor's dog is barking and barking and barking.......
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:30 AM
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    Originally Posted by cjomomma
    There is a cricket in the wall between my sewing area and the water heater closet. It has been chirping 24 hours a day for 2 days now. I've been trying to ignore it but this morning it's driving me crazy. I have to go outside just to get a break from the noise. I've banged on the wall but it only stops for a second. GRRRR!!!! I don't know how much more I can take!!!
    LOL I would probably start ripping out the sheetrock to get to that cricket!!!! We had one under our freezer and we emptied the freezer out just so we could move it to GET that dang cricket...and we never did and finally about a week later it disappeared. Never had another one Knock on wood.
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:32 AM
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    I googled the lifespan of the cricket.

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    Crickets only live a few weeks. The crickets hatch from eggs laid in the ground in the spring or early summer, and are adults within about 3 months. They breed and then lay their eggs in late summer. They then die of old age or will freeze if the temperature lowers to 32 degrees. Incidently the the higher the temperature gets the more a cricket chirps. http://mathbits.com/MathBits/TISecti...linearREAL.htm
    Try turning on your airconditioner if you have one and maybe he'll quiet down...lol.
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:32 AM
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    You know how some people hear ringing in their ears.Well I hear crickets all the time
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:34 AM
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    They say a cricket in the house is good luck.lol if you can stand it .
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:35 AM
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    Oh, that would be totally annoying!!! :(
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:37 AM
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    I did the search and destroy that's how I know it's in the wall. I also sprayed but no luck getting it.

    It's nice and cool both inside an outside but apparently it's nice and warm in the wall.
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    Old 09-06-2011, 05:39 AM
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    You need to borrow Teddi :-)

    We let her and Isla go in the garage and the shop to get them!
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