Crickets do lay eggs in houses and in damp soil or moist areas indoors.
The reason crickets chirp is to find a partner to mate with and nymph crickets hatch from eggs during the spring months and take around 2 to 3 months to mature.
You can get rid of crickets by spraying some peppermint oil and water or some lavender oil and water to keep crickets away.
Peppermint oil also contains menthol that works like a pesticide to kill bugs and keep the bugs from returning.
You can fill a spray bottle with 1 part lavender or 1 part peppermint oil to 10 parts of water and spray around any entry point so the house or where crickets are hanging around.
Coffee grounds can repel crickets as coffee grounds are very potent in smell to crickets and will keep them away.
Other smells that crickets hate are vinegar, citronella, peppermint and lavender.
You can use the scents or essential oils with those smells to repel crickets and many other insects.
Moisture and humidity and other food sources attracts crickets in the house.
When you have crickets in your house it usually means that you have moisture in your home or high humidity or even leaky pipes or a leaky faucet that the crickets are attracted to.
Foods you can feed crickets to keep them alive are dry cat food, dry dog food, fish flakes, reptile food, grains such as wheat germ, rice cereal and alfalfa, vegetables such as leafy greens, squash, potatoes, carrots and fruits like bananas, oranges and apples.
Common house crickets eat rotting fruit, other insects, vegetables and rotting leaves.
Inside a house common house crickets will also feed on and eat wallpaper glue and fabrics.
When you have a lot of crickets in your house it usually means that you have moisture in your home or high humidity or even leaky pipes or a leaky faucet that the crickets are attracted to.
Areas with high humidity levels draw crickets because humidity is the ideal environment for growth and breeding of crickets and crickets are also drawn to and attracted to cluttered and messy places.
Crickets require plenty of moisture to survive so moisture and humidity and water sources will attract crickets.
There are 3 stages of a cricket which are egg, larva and adult cricket and only the adult crickets have wings and can reproduce.
Crickets have direct development known as (gradual metamorphosis) in which the larvae (immature insects) resemble the adult (mature insect) except for smaller size and lack of wings.
House crickets do not bite and will mostly avoid humans.
While crickets do possess mandibles that they may use defensively, they are not equipped to bite humans in the same way that biting insects like mosquitoes or ticks do.
The month that crickets are most active is late summer or from August to October which is from late summer and Fall months.
Crickets typically go away or decrease in numbers during the colder months of fall and winter.
After a cricket loses a leg the cricket will develop assemblies of cells which can differentiate into various different types to regenerate and regrow the lost part of the leg or leg.
Cricket nymphs have the remarkable ability to regenerate a functional leg following amputation, indicating that the regenerating blastemal cells contain information for leg morphology.
However, the molecular mechanisms that underlie regeneration of leg patterns remain poorly understood.
While the leg is functional, crickets are not as good at regeneration as other animals like the axolotl.
The leg grows back slowly, and the cricket can walk.
The nymphs, or baby crickets, will molt multiple times as they develop into adults, which typically takes about three months.
The average life expectancy of most adult crickets is 1-3 months, though they may live as long as a year in the wild.
While crickets do possess mandibles that they may use defensively, they are not equipped to bite humans in the same way that biting insects like mosquitoes or ticks do.
Crickets are orthopteran insects which are related to bush crickets, and, more distantly, to grasshoppers.
In older literature, such as Imms, "crickets" were placed at the family level, but contemporary authorities including Otte now place them in the superfamily Grylloidea.
Crickets can hear each other's chirps through a special auditory organ called a tympanum that's located on their forelegs.
This organ is hypersensitive to vibrations which keeps them alert to any approaching predators.
This explains why you might find it difficult to sneak up on a cricket.