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Cat Forum / Cat Anecdotes / October 2006Hoppy Bugs!
Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying out on the outside by coming inside but Persia is hot on their trail. She's after them like white on rice. Good for her! They are disgusting. I have no problem with regular crickets but these things are just ugly and make me say ewwwww! I only have to say "Persia! Hoppy Bugs!" and she rushes into the room and chases after them. Thank you, sweet Persia :) Jill >Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying out on >the outside by coming inside but Persia is hot on their trail. She's after [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Jill When I saw "Hoppy bugs," I immediately thought "fleas." Better Persia on the bugs than the bugs on Persia! Theresa Stinky Pictures: http://community.webshots.com/album/125591586JWEFwh Make Levees, Not War > Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying > out on the outside by coming inside but Persia is hot on their trail. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Jill Good Persia! Stupid ugly hoppy bugs! >Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying out on >the outside by coming inside but Persia is hot on their trail. She's after [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Jill Does she just play with them, or does she ..gulp..eat them? ewww! -- CATherine >> Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying >> out on the outside by coming inside but Persia is hot on their [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] >> > Does she just play with them, or does she ..gulp..eat them? ewww! I never actually watch long enough to give you an answer to that. But I suspect she eats them. And yes, ewwwww! Jill > Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying out on > the outside by coming inside but Persia is hot on their trail. She's [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > I only have to say "Persia! Hoppy Bugs!" and she rushes into the room and > chases after them. Thank you, sweet Persia :) How do they get into your house? I'm interested as we don't have such things here. I once had a small cricket that set up home near the fireplace and used to chirp at night. I rather liked it and was sorry when it disappeared. Tweed >> Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying out >> on [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] > > Tweed Wouldn't be quite so bad if they weren't in the habit of eating holes in clothes. Jo >>> Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying out >>> on [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > Wouldn't be quite so bad if they weren't in the habit of eating holes in > clothes. You have far more awful beasties in the US than we have here. The cricket didn't have any idea about eating my clothes. He merely chirped around my hearth and went away in a few days. I wouldn't mind if he came back, it is supposed to be lucky to have a chirping cricket around the fire. Tweed > You have far more awful beasties in the US than we have here. > The cricket didn't have any idea about eating my clothes. He > merely chirped around my hearth and went away in a few days. > I wouldn't mind if he came back, it is supposed to be lucky to > have a chirping cricket around the fire. Cave crickets are just vile. My parents get them, and I think they come in somewhere in a breach in the kitchen addition they had done years and years ago. The addition extended the back of the house, and added to the crawl space that is aligned with the basement. There can be literal infestations of these things in the fall! They are cannibals, too. My dad discovered that they’re attracted to the glue on duct tape, so he made his own traps, and lined the baseboards with upsidedown duct tape. He’d find cave crickets dining on trapped cave crickets. <shudder> I kept telling my mom (who is totally freaked out by these things because her sewing room is on the basement level of the house, and she’d walk into the room and find them scurrying for cover) that she needs a cat. :)  SignatureCheryl >> Those awful cave crickets are back! They are trying to avoid dying out on >> the outside by coming inside but Persia is hot on their trail. She's [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >I once had a small cricket that set up home near the fireplace and used to >chirp at night. I rather liked it and was sorry when it disappeared. Cave crickets are fond of dimly-lit places (hence their name), and are commonly found in basements or crawl spaces. They are probably getting in through a floor or wall gap around pipes. I would recommend stuffing some steel wool into any such gap. The crickets can't eat the steel wool, and the scratchiness means that they can't squeeze past it. SignatureJohn F. Eldredge -- john@jfeldredge.com PGP key available from http://pgp.mit.edu "Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria > Cave crickets are fond of dimly-lit places (hence their name), > and are commonly found in basements or crawl spaces. They are > probably getting in through a floor or wall gap around pipes. I > would recommend stuffing some steel wool into any such gap. The > crickets can't eat the steel wool, and the scratchiness means > that they can't squeeze past it. Very good suggestion if you can find the opening. The thing that freaks me out about them (and I only had one in my old apartment before Marley (RB) found and ate it) is that they are unpredictable. They jump in unexpected directions, and seem to turn on a dime, jumping right back in the direction they just jumped from, then to another direction. When it comes to bugs that look like big spiders, I like to be able to predict the direction they’re going so I can go the other way. LOL SignatureCheryl |
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