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a while ago some crickets escaped from the feeding cup of my cham. they settled in his terrarium and liked the climate a lot... so they bred..

now i have at least a thousand crickets in various sizes in that cage. first i thought that'd be cool since my cham grows it's own food (only crickets that is.. i still gave him other stuff for diversity).

what happened now is that for once i didn't put any veggies in the cage for the crickets... so they grew unhappy and started to look fo food elsewhere. they chewed through a fibreglass screen net and left the cage by the hundreds.

so when i got home today i saw crickets everywhere in my flat.. my girlfriend freaked and i could go hunting all over... i think (actually i'm sure) there are still some 'round...

question:

is there any untoxic way to get rid of them in my flat as well as in the cage? the thing is.. if i feed them they are happy and will breed even more.. if i starve them they will go astray.

try inventing somthing that they can climb up and then down in but not back up like cutting off the top of a two liter bottle of pop and making either the outside rought with sand paper or making som type of ramp. then put somthing the smell slightly in the bottom like a slice of orange and see if you can catch any during the night.....it may take some trial and error but you should be able to make somthing that they cant get out of but can into easily

try a glue trap like the ones they make for roaches..you know, the roach motel

I would use Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches instead of the crickets.