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Old 03-05-2008, 10:26 PM
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Default Cricket escaped :(

Happened, was going to i guess, was feeding my bd's a couple each in the tank and one made a dive for it, i was stuck between the wide open glass, looked down tracked him, looked up closed the glass and he was gone,

little git, i hate them anyway, they make my skin crawl
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Old 03-05-2008, 11:40 PM
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Lol i "loose" about 10 each week. Used to be really bad with them chirping in strange places at 1am in the morning but we use traps now you can get 20 sticky traps on ebay for about £2. Place them close to walls and in corners and the chipring will stop and the fear of them climbing in to bed with you will be gone.

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Old 04-05-2008, 12:35 AM
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christ we'de be done for if we were bothered about escapee crickets, there must be hundreds runnin loose in this house! some fat buggers too so they have been roamin about for a while..... im sure we're a few mice missin......
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Old 04-05-2008, 09:00 AM
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eeuuurrrgghhh.God i hate crickets! Every evening i shake the bark and stuff in the agamas viv to get them all out of hiding,and every time,without fail, one jumps on me! So there i am doing the irish jig to get it off and then my 3 yr old picks it up and chucks it in the viv for me
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Old 04-05-2008, 09:13 AM
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I hate crickets too.
The worst thing is that the viv is in my room and they make a right noise when in the viv. Plus the fact the viv amplifies the noise, it doesn't make a good nights sleep.
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Old 04-05-2008, 09:21 AM
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Lol i "loose" about 10 each week. Used to be really bad with them chirping in strange places at 1am in the morning but we use traps now you can get 20 sticky traps on ebay for about £2. Place them close to walls and in corners and the chipring will stop and the fear of them climbing in to bed with you will be gone.

Marina

Thanks for that, hadnt thought about em jumping into bed, i just assumed he'd still be roaming around the skirting boards.



Just made my second mistake, God Beardies are smart, i couldnt work out why there'd both spent the day in the "cool" end up on a grape vine towards the roof. I'd mistaking thought they couldnt here the cricket tubs that i happened to keep on top in that corner too, so there now down on the ground as well.


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Old 04-05-2008, 09:25 AM
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I'm dreading dealing with crickets. Our beardie only eats locusts, and its taken me two months to overcome my fear of them!

When we get the leos, we'll have to get crickets and I know I'm gonna struggle
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Old 04-05-2008, 01:25 PM
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Thanks for that, hadnt thought about em jumping into bed, i just assumed he'd still be roaming around the skirting boards.

Me too until i felt a tickling one night, i used to keep a massive male water dragon and he ate the biggest blacks. I pulled back the duvet and there was a huge black one running about under there. Nasty horrible thing the blacks can and do bite you.

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Old 04-05-2008, 01:50 PM
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crickets always escape and you always find some around the house but my cat normally kills them for me
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Old 04-05-2008, 07:46 PM
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Lol i "loose" about 10 each week. Used to be really bad with them chirping in strange places at 1am in the morning but we use traps now you can get 20 sticky traps on ebay for about £2. Place them close to walls and in corners and the chipring will stop and the fear of them climbing in to bed with you will be gone.

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can you give me the link to the traps please, my dad keeps finding crickets and he keeps threatening to throw the lizards out lol
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