Question

What did the cricket do during Summer months?

Answer 1

The mild temperatures and moisture of the early summer months created a thriving population of field crickets, the Midwest’s most common cricket species. The increased population, coupled with lighting on and around structures attracting the insects, increases the chance that these singing pests will find their way indoors.

Once inside, in addition to their loud chirping, crickets can damage fabrics and pose a potential contamination risk to food plants. As adult crickets will not survive the winter, the pests are typically “accidental invaders” that end up indoors as they are attracted by structure lighting on their journey to mate and lay eggs.

Because crickets are not seeking harborage inside a structure, business owners can take steps to prevent an invasion by decreasing the attractiveness of their structure to an unsuspecting cricket.