A cricket? A *single* cricket?

In my hometown in Texas, there's a cricket infestation every fall. Starts in early September, when school starts, lasts until Christmas.

In my high school, crickets would pour out of the fluorescent light fixtures.

Anyway....

We get all manner of bugs in Summer (not now - it's Winter) and I spend a lot of time helping them out of the house. Good on you, getoffmylawn, for not just leaving it to its fate.

Go Fred!

No kidding? You had the phantom cricket experience, too? How funny... Of course, the funniest thing was that even after we discovered it was the smoke alarm chirping, and not a cricket, my father insisted he'd seen it. (Did I mention he was 85 at the time?)

Congrats on setting yours free... glad the cats didn't get 'im. : )

(mudpuppie, yikes... we had an infestation of gypsy moth caterpillars once... the roads were covered with them... you couldn't walk down the street without squishing 'em)

Where I went to school in Texas, one year the crickets were so bad they had to use air blowers to clear the Taco Bell parking lot. Millions of crickets and cricket corpses. And the falling from fluorescent lights would happen in class, and then later at my office. Not a lot, but nothing it freakier than a cricket falling from the sky and landing on your desk.

Go Fred!
posted by GeckoDundee

Funny . . . in my house, the gecko eats the crickets rather than cheering their freedom. Send your crickets to Segunda c/o danostuporstar, rockville, maryland, USA. TIA.

I wish my house had crickets. Instead, all I got are spiders.

Ok, so I get up this morning and go to get in the shower and the entire bathroom floor was black with ants. Eww, they were in the cat food too. I would trade all the ants in the world to just have to deal with one cricket named Fred.

A few nights before I found Fred a giant, ugly, hairy black spider was crawling on me in my sleep. I don't know what woke me up to see it. Uckk.

Then, several weeks ago I opened my front door and this huge black snake with white rings with blue edges (Calif. King?) slithered right past me. I think he was sunning himself on the bottom metal door jam.

What is it with these creepy, crawly things and me? Why can't deer babies and bunnies stalk me instead?

Your home is clearly becoming the new Garden of Eden. You must welcome All God's Creatures.

Two nights ago I was bitten behind my right ear by a spider. It's very tender.