CRICKET Explosion!

[jerp]

I'm not sure what causes it. I remember several years ago they got VERY bad. Anywhere with much outdoor lighting and you were swarmed. Football games were bad. Gas stations and grocery store parking lots had piles of them where they had been mashed by cars. Smelled like dead animals.

I remember that - that year they were millions of them drifted up like leaves. A kid at the station where I stop in Cisco was cleaning them up with a shop vac - said he had about filled the dumpster!

[riverbowman]

Brings back bad memories. When I was in high school we mowed and picked up trash at a bunch of shopping centers. We were responsible for the crickets when they exploded.

We'd blow them in to huge piles and shovel them into garbage bags. One day we had over 20 full size bags full of crickets on the trailer.

[tpack]

I have turned all of my outside lights off on my house and my shop. It has helped a lot but we still have some though.

[catslayer]

ya'll talking about crickets, grasshoppers or locust? ( aka texas grass hopper)

if there crickets bag em and send them to me,, my perch are hungry

A true field cricket, have seen almost no grass hopepers...

Ps a locust is what we call a cicata round here haha

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[MisterSanders]

Horrible in chambers county!

[Hawkins]

Better than stinking beetles. I remember years ago the beetles were unbelievable.

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[ahlongslide]

I clicked hoping it was a video of crickets on some tannerite

[nimrod]

They were all over the front parking lot at the hospital between burleson and Joshua on thurs

[Jcjohnson]

Time to go cat fishing.

I tried this one year while I was In Texas and I didn’t catch a single fish with them. Thought I hit the mother load of perch jerkin bait and they wouldn’t touch em.

[Thumper]

There is one in my office right now that I wish i could find.

Check the batteries in your smoke detectors...lol

Snakes eat crickets, I'm guessing you killed all the snakes....

[switchback]

I tried this one year while I was In Texas and I didn’t catch a single fish with them. Thought I hit the mother load of perch jerkin bait and they wouldn’t touch em.

Back home years ago my buddy used crickets from the bait shop and would catch fish with them. He tried crickets from his yard and nothing. Ones from his yard were black. Bait shop ones were brown. Don’t know why they won’t eat them. He let some brown ones go in his yard and we started seeing crickets that were half brown half black after awhile.

[GA Bowhunter]

since the rain last week THOUSANDS and THOUSANDS of crickets has showed up in cleburne. Every building in town has piles of them by the door, havent seen this many in years.

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Please don not bother posting pics. Your words are like a portrait. It is almost like I am standing beside you gazing at the cricket explosion marvel.