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Crickets Jay 10-01-2007
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Posted by terry on October 1, 2007, 10:11 am
> I would love some advice on how to limit the cricket population at my
> home. I have tried many different bug sprays, with the noisy
> creatures prevailing. .............................
.
More damn chemical sprays etc.that end up in our water supplies!
If one doesn't like the natural conditions prevailing in an area why
live there?

As humans we are always trying to change the world around us, rather
than fit in!
Shakespeare was right, back in the Middle Ages, when, long before the
widespread use of chemical pollutants he wrote "Lord, what fools these
mortals be". (Puck. In Midsummer Night's Dream).

Bats are said to be a good way of keeping down the mosquitoes and
other insects. Maybe crickets would be a tasty morsel to them if you
could encourage a few to live in the area by providing a 'bat house'
For which have a design somewhere.

Wasps too control other insects such as mosquitoes. We probably attack
them too?

PS. We don't have Crickets, or Lightning Bugs, or that many insects
here. Too cool. There are a few (very few) grass hoppers during our
shortish summer. So must admit that not aware how much a problem the
noise must be.
But surely in a properly insulated house with windows closed etc. the
noise would not be noticeable? My neighbour keeps his transport truck,
with air brakes and all the works, less than some 100 feet from my
bedroom and never hear him start and drive off around 5.00 AM each
morning! Although must admit did hear another neighbour mowing with a
3.5 HP Briggs and Stratton some 15 feet from bedroom one morning
around 7.00 AM!.


Posted by HeyBub on October 1, 2007, 2:22 pm
terry wrote:

> .
> More damn chemical sprays etc.that end up in our water supplies!
> If one doesn't like the natural conditions prevailing in an area why
> live there?
>
> As humans we are always trying to change the world around us, rather
> than fit in!
> Shakespeare was right, back in the Middle Ages, when, long before the
> widespread use of chemical pollutants he wrote "Lord, what fools these
> mortals be". (Puck. In Midsummer Night's Dream).
>

I, too, sometimes yearn for the good old days. Then I think: dentistry.



Posted by Dan Espen on October 1, 2007, 10:26 am

> I would love some advice on how to limit the cricket population at my
> home. I have tried many different bug sprays, with the noisy
> creatures prevailing.

You may very well have a lot of crickets but have you ever heard
of tinnitus?

Only after I realized that crickets don't chirp when it's snowing out
did I realize what I was hearing.

Posted by Noozer on October 1, 2007, 8:30 pm

>
>> I would love some advice on how to limit the cricket population at my
>> home. I have tried many different bug sprays, with the noisy
>> creatures prevailing.
>
> You may very well have a lot of crickets but have you ever heard
> of tinnitus?
>
> Only after I realized that crickets don't chirp when it's snowing out
> did I realize what I was hearing.

Tinnitus sux.... I've had it as long as I can remember. I'd poke out my
eardrums in a heartbeat if I thought it would make a difference.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Posted by willshak on October 2, 2007, 6:48 am
on 10/1/2007 8:30 PM Noozer said the following:
>
>>
>>
>>> I would love some advice on how to limit the cricket population at my
>>> home. I have tried many different bug sprays, with the noisy
>>> creatures prevailing.
>>>
>> You may very well have a lot of crickets but have you ever heard
>> of tinnitus?
>>
>> Only after I realized that crickets don't chirp when it's snowing out
>> did I realize what I was hearing.
>>
>
> Tinnitus sux.... I've had it as long as I can remember. I'd poke out my
> eardrums in a heartbeat if I thought it would make a difference.
>
> ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me too. Mine sounds like a micro electric motor running at top speed.
Sometimes it gets louder and there are times when it almost sounds like
someone opened a door to it all of a sudden. Fortunately, it is not as
irritating as some others have claimed. It appears to be louder in my
left ear than the right. I have learned to ignore it so well that
sometimes I have to stop and think about it to hear it.
I have no problem hearing it when I go to sleep at night, tho.

--

Bill
In Hamptonburgh, NY
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