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Crickets

While their chirping may be harmless in small numbers, cricket infestations can quickly become a serious nuisance for South Texas homes and businesses. These nocturnal insects are drawn to warmth, moisture, and bright outdoor lighting—often slipping indoors through tiny gaps or open doors. Once inside, they can damage fabrics, wallpaper, and stored paper goods while leaving behind stains and foul-smelling droppings. Their presence can also attract other pests, such as spiders and rodents, that prey on them. In severe outbreaks, large numbers of crickets can gather around lights, walls, and sidewalks, creating unpleasant odors and unsightly conditions. At LONESTAR Pest Solutions, we identify entry points, locate nesting and activity areas, and implement targeted treatments to restore peace—and quiet—to your property.

Common types of Crickets

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House Crickets

Common in homes and businesses, house crickets are the type most people hear chirping indoors. While not dangerous, they’re a nuisance when they gather in large numbers.

Size, Color: About ¾–1 inch long, yellowish-brown with three dark bands on the head.

Identifying Characteristics: Known for their loud chirping, especially at night; long antennae.

Where does it nest/hide? Warm, dark areas inside homes, basements, and near heaters or appliances.

When does it typically reproduce? Warm months, with females laying eggs in soil or cracks.

What is it attracted to? Warmth, light, and moisture. Indoors they’re drawn to kitchens, basements, and storage areas.

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Field Crickets

Field crickets are outdoor pests but invade structures in late summer and fall, often in overwhelming numbers.

Size, Color: ½–1¼ inch long, dark brown to black.

Identifying Characteristics: Sleek body with large hind legs; males chirp loudly.

Where does it nest/hide? Outdoors in tall grass, weeds, mulch, and cracks in soil; will enter homes and businesses through gaps under doors.

When does it typically reproduce? Eggs are laid in soil during late summer; hatch the following spring.

What is it attracted to? Bright lights at night, moisture, and shelter in cool weather.

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Camel Crickets (Cave Crickets)

Camel crickets don’t chirp but alarm people with their humpbacked appearance and long legs. They often jump when disturbed.

Size, Color: ½–1½ inches long, light to dark brown with mottled patterns.

Identifying Characteristics: Humpbacked shape, long antennae, and spider-like legs. Silent—do not chirp.

Where does it nest/hide? Damp, dark areas like basements, crawlspaces, garages, and sheds.

When does it typically reproduce? Spring and summer in moist soil or organic matter.

What is it attracted to? Moisture, darkness, and cluttered storage areas.

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Mole Crickets

A destructive pest mostly found in lawns, golf courses, and landscaped areas, mole crickets burrow underground and damage turf by feeding on roots.

Size, Color: About 1–1½ inches long, light brown to tan.

Identifying Characteristics: Enlarged, spade-like front legs for digging; cylindrical body.

Where does it nest/hide? Underground burrows in moist soil, especially sandy areas.

When does it typically reproduce? Eggs are laid in soil in spring and hatch in summer.

What is it attracted to? Moist soil, turfgrass, and landscaped areas with irrigation.

Health risks

  • Carry bacteria that spreads when they come in contact with food surfaces
  • Trigger allergies for sensitive individuals
  • Attract predators like spiders and rodents into the home
  • Property damage

  • Damage fabrics, upholstery, wallpaper, and stored paper goods
  • Leave stains and foul-smelling droppings on floors and walls
  • Create disruptive noise that impacts quality of life
  • During severe outbreaks crickets can create an aesthetically unacceptable situation around places of business. Dead crickets quickly pile up, causing odors; and many people are repelled by the sight of large numbers of crickets on walls and sidewalks around offices and stores.
  • How it works

    No More Chirping, No More Stress At LONESTAR Pest Solutions, our process is simple but thorough.

    Inspection
    • Identify cricket entry points inside and around the home

    • Locate nesting and activity areas (often damp, dark spaces)

    • Assess outdoor lighting and landscaping that may attract crickets

    Crickets around building perimeters can be killed with any of several insecticidal baits and sprays. Baits are granular products that include a food that is tasty for crickets and are applied to ground covers and other areas where crickets are congregating next to buildings.

    • Make the recommendation and/or provide the exclusion service
    • All potential points of entry for crickets should be tightly sealed. Such sites include door thresholds, weep holes, soffits along the eaves of homes, windows, garage doors, etc.
    • Adjust outdoor lighting strategies to deter new infestations

    Recommendations:

    • Outdoor lighting is the most important single cause of severe cricket infestations around homes and commercial buildings. Buildings that are brightly lit at night are most likely to attract the largest numbers of crickets during the fall mating season.
    • During cricket swarming season, outdoor lights should be turned off as early in the evening as practical or should be replaced with lamps that are less attractive to insects. Low pressure sodium vapor lamps and yellow incandescent “bug lights” are less attractive to crickets than standard incandescent, fluorescent, mercury vapor or halogen lights. Floodlights that illuminate homes or buildings, and which are not necessary for security purposes, should be turned off; or the lighting schedule should be restricted to a few hours each night
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    Spring/Summer

    Crickets begin hatching outdoors as weather warms. Populations remain mostly outside but can start building up near foundations and gardens.

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    Fall/Winter

    As temperatures cool, crickets move indoors seeking warmth. Infestations inside basements, kitchens, and living areas become common, and chirping is at its loudest.

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