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    alex barylski
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    Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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      Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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      Navin
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      Wow... I have a spider invasion... I mean, BIG spiders. Fortunately they stay outside, but pick annoying places such as right in front of my door. How about I ship you the spiders, and then your cricket problem will soon vanish. :-D An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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        Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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        Steve Maier
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        When we lived in Texas, there was a HUGE cricket problem there. They would get in the house and our cats would hunt them down. It was so bad that if you went for a jog down the road (almost a dirt road), there were easily 500+, if not in the thousands, there right on the road. Like you all we did was to catch them or let the cats catch them? Other things that we suggested to us home remedy type of things like putting some powder around the house (can't remember what it was tho). Here is a link with a couple of suggestions too. http://www.recipegoldmine.com/house/house.html[^] Of course now we are in New York and don't have the same problems. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD

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          Wow... I have a spider invasion... I mean, BIG spiders. Fortunately they stay outside, but pick annoying places such as right in front of my door. How about I ship you the spiders, and then your cricket problem will soon vanish. :-D An expert is somebody who learns more and more about less and less, until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

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          alex barylski
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          Thanks, butI don't think that would work seeing how i'm terrified of spiders. Sounds like a real life episode of eight legged freaks??? X| How do I print my voice mail?

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            When we lived in Texas, there was a HUGE cricket problem there. They would get in the house and our cats would hunt them down. It was so bad that if you went for a jog down the road (almost a dirt road), there were easily 500+, if not in the thousands, there right on the road. Like you all we did was to catch them or let the cats catch them? Other things that we suggested to us home remedy type of things like putting some powder around the house (can't remember what it was tho). Here is a link with a couple of suggestions too. http://www.recipegoldmine.com/house/house.html[^] Of course now we are in New York and don't have the same problems. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD

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            Steve Maier wrote: When we lived in Texas, there was a HUGE cricket problem there. They would get in the house and our cats would hunt them down. It was so bad that if you went for a jog down the road (almost a dirt road), there were easily 500+, if not in the thousands, there right on the road God I hate insects. :| I guess them the breaks livin' far south??? I was in Tennessee years ago when they had a once a hundred years Locus...infestation. I also seen spider webs so thick they could stop a cat (keep an eye on yours). Actually as long as they stay outside, I don't really care, but we've never had infestation like you described. It'll be cold here in another month and they'll mostly be dead I hope. Thanks for the link :) How do I print my voice mail?

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              Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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              :laugh: The tigress is here :-D

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                Steve Maier wrote: When we lived in Texas, there was a HUGE cricket problem there. They would get in the house and our cats would hunt them down. It was so bad that if you went for a jog down the road (almost a dirt road), there were easily 500+, if not in the thousands, there right on the road God I hate insects. :| I guess them the breaks livin' far south??? I was in Tennessee years ago when they had a once a hundred years Locus...infestation. I also seen spider webs so thick they could stop a cat (keep an eye on yours). Actually as long as they stay outside, I don't really care, but we've never had infestation like you described. It'll be cold here in another month and they'll mostly be dead I hope. Thanks for the link :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                Steve Maier
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                One of the women that I worked with in texas was from Arkansas. And yes she had dinner with Clinton twice, once when she was in high school and once when she was in college. She told me of a first date she had once in Arkansas where they thought that this small section of road was flooded. They slowed down and saw that it was moving. Her date got out of the car and looked and the road was full of tarantulas. So many that you could not see the road anymore where they were. Her date had one as a pet for years and it had died recently so he picked up 3-4 of them to take back with them so he could have a new pet. That was on a first date!! She let him take the spiders back to his place, because she was driving, but she was very scare of spiders and never called him back. As they drove over them you could hear them popping under the tires. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD

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                  :laugh: The tigress is here :-D

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                  :laugh::laugh::laugh: "What flyswatter? That's not a flyswatter... [pulls frypan from under his shirt] Now there's a flyswatter!" "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City

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                    Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                    Roger Wright
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                    I'd bring the poor hound upstairs for a few hours and fire off an indoor fogger in the basement. They use a decent insecticide that is quite effective and has a short half-life. What little residue is left behind becomes harmless to humans and pets in a short time. It would be prudent, though, to sweep up the cricket corpses before letting the pooch back downstairs, in case he's inclined to nibble on such things. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City

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                      Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                      Garth T
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                      I thought that was only a game played during summer ?:laugh: Programming from a spec is like walking on water ...... Its Easier once frozen ;-)

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                        Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                        Garth T
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                        I thought that was only a game palyed during summer ?:laugh: Programming from a spec is like walking on water ...... Its Easier once frozen ;-)

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                          One of the women that I worked with in texas was from Arkansas. And yes she had dinner with Clinton twice, once when she was in high school and once when she was in college. She told me of a first date she had once in Arkansas where they thought that this small section of road was flooded. They slowed down and saw that it was moving. Her date got out of the car and looked and the road was full of tarantulas. So many that you could not see the road anymore where they were. Her date had one as a pet for years and it had died recently so he picked up 3-4 of them to take back with them so he could have a new pet. That was on a first date!! She let him take the spiders back to his place, because she was driving, but she was very scare of spiders and never called him back. As they drove over them you could hear them popping under the tires. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD

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                          alex barylski
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                          Please...yer givin' me the willies... X| I'm located in the longitudinal center of Canada probably a couple hundred miles from the 49th even. In summer we get crazy mosquitoes (in fact their famous here :) yippy huh?) and sometimes grass hoppers, but NEVER spiders...except some small non poisoness house spiders. Although i swear I once seen a Brown recluse spider on my bed sheets, however I was probably screaming/crying so hard at that point it could have been lint. :-O I seen a pic taken by some rangers in Iraq of these two spider looking "Hair cutting" bugs (I believe they were from the scorpian family though not arachnide) stuck togather mating I guesss....god were they gross...times like that I'll put up with 3-6 months of -40 weather anyday!!! Cheers :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                            :laugh: The tigress is here :-D

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                            alex barylski
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                            Not as glamourous(spelling) as wrestling crocs, but I'm Canadian eh, were hockey players, not hunters... Actually I guess there are few hunters in Canada, actually probably a lot...but I consider them neanderthals. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                              I'd bring the poor hound upstairs for a few hours and fire off an indoor fogger in the basement. They use a decent insecticide that is quite effective and has a short half-life. What little residue is left behind becomes harmless to humans and pets in a short time. It would be prudent, though, to sweep up the cricket corpses before letting the pooch back downstairs, in case he's inclined to nibble on such things. "My kid was Inmate of the Month at Adobe Mountain Juvenile Corrections Center" - Bumper Sticker in Bullhead City

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                              alex barylski
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                              Roger Wright wrote: to sweep up the cricket corpses before letting the pooch back downstairs, in case he's inclined to nibble on such things. He's a mutt...sheppard X with god knows what...he'll eat anything!!! How do I print my voice mail?

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                                I thought that was only a game palyed during summer ?:laugh: Programming from a spec is like walking on water ...... Its Easier once frozen ;-)

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                                alex barylski
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                                Only place in Canada where cricket might be played in is Toronto. All my Indian friends play hockey :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                                  Please...yer givin' me the willies... X| I'm located in the longitudinal center of Canada probably a couple hundred miles from the 49th even. In summer we get crazy mosquitoes (in fact their famous here :) yippy huh?) and sometimes grass hoppers, but NEVER spiders...except some small non poisoness house spiders. Although i swear I once seen a Brown recluse spider on my bed sheets, however I was probably screaming/crying so hard at that point it could have been lint. :-O I seen a pic taken by some rangers in Iraq of these two spider looking "Hair cutting" bugs (I believe they were from the scorpian family though not arachnide) stuck togather mating I guesss....god were they gross...times like that I'll put up with 3-6 months of -40 weather anyday!!! Cheers :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                                  Steve Maier
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                                  Hockey wrote: In summer we get crazy mosquitoes (in fact their famous here yippy huh?) I have some cousins that lived up in Winnepeg and then move to Edmonton. The stories I have heard from them follow what you are saying. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD

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                                    Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                                      One of the women that I worked with in texas was from Arkansas. And yes she had dinner with Clinton twice, once when she was in high school and once when she was in college. She told me of a first date she had once in Arkansas where they thought that this small section of road was flooded. They slowed down and saw that it was moving. Her date got out of the car and looked and the road was full of tarantulas. So many that you could not see the road anymore where they were. Her date had one as a pet for years and it had died recently so he picked up 3-4 of them to take back with them so he could have a new pet. That was on a first date!! She let him take the spiders back to his place, because she was driving, but she was very scare of spiders and never called him back. As they drove over them you could hear them popping under the tires. Steve Maier, MCSD MCAD

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                                      the hottest week in July turns about a 25 mile section of road into spider central. Luckily it is a large desert so no "river of spiders", there's about 200 tarantulas crossing the road at any given moment between noon and 3pm. If you don't like spiders, you don't drive during those hours. It's a slolem course you cannot hope to win. _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)

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                                        Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                                        Get one of those tickers that are designed to rid your home of pests, they will soon vanish afterwards. Tony

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                                          Anybody know how to kill or atleast get rid of crickets...? I don't really want to use pesticide incase my dog gets at it...he's the main reason I want them dead...there are about 20 of them in my basement and their making so much noise my poor dog can't sleep. He wines to come up stairs and then goes striaght to sleep. :) BTW - I've already captured about 10. I'm the Cricket hunter extraordinaire. :) How do I print my voice mail?

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                                          Gary R Wheeler
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                                          Be glad you don't have bats X| . July and August are bat month where I live. I own a 135 year old, two story house, with lots of places for the nasty little buggers to get in :mad:. I've gotten very adept at catching the damn things. :sigh:


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