Crickets in the basement

Every year about this time, we get crickets in the basement. Just walked around with my son and found 8 . What's the best way to deal with these buggers? I bought Insect Trap Coating to make my own sticky traps. (I have used sticky traps in the past; they eventually catch a lot of crickets. ) I want to bait the traps. What would they eat? The crickets seem to randomly roam at night. Any advice?

Hi Sally,

Crickets love sliced raw potatoes. :-)

To make you feel a bit better, your eight crickets may seem
less when I share my story.

Hubby has lizards, and as such, we have a big trash can full of
crickets to feed them. Ugh, I know.

They arrive in quantities of one thousand per shipment.
Last week, someone (of our many pets) knocked over the trash
can, and yep, you guessed it.

Chirp. Chirp. Chirp. LOL

oh
my
gosh
= ^)

So did you let the lizards loose to hunt them down?

Bwa ha ha! Now that would have been a sight!

Lizards chasing the crickets, cats chasing the lizards chasing the
crickets, dogs chasing the cats chasing the lizards chasing the crickets,
and me chasing the dogs chasing the cats chasing the lizards chasing
the crickets.

Thank goodness for Eureka. (grin) Hang on, guys, it's a cyclone!

I just found out crickets like dried hot pepper pods.

I left some on the counter to de seed later.

I went in the kitchen to do something and there were 3 crickets eating a pepper pod.

The one I squished was full of red pepper.

The other 2 are still around somewhere....
Probably having a cold beer under the fridge while their noses run.

I think I'll put a chili arbol in one of my glue traps and see what happens.
They didn't touch the fresh peppers next to the dried ones.
Maybe they are Mexican camel crickets.
They caught a ride on a produce truck.

Never would have guessed dried peppers!

I just saw a couple crickets looking around where the peppers were last night.

I was afraid to put a whole pepper in the trap so I sprinkled cayene in it.

I'll check it in a while.

I think if I put too big of a pepper chunk in the trap that they might sit on the pepper and not get stuck in the glue.

My traps are boxes with both ends open.
The trap with no bait has about 5or6 crickets and 1 spider in it.
It's on the floor under the cabinet overhang.it's been there a few days.
Crickets probably feel safer under the overhang rather than out in the open.
I think I'll put another baited one on the floor somewhere else(other end of the cabinet) and see if it does any better than the non baited one.

Thanks
Last year left several sticky traps under various dark spots around the basement. Pretty good at gradually trapping a lot. You're right- better action in preotected spot.