Crikets

[mahomedhoosein]

Does it matter which criket you use ,the black(velt) or brown(household) criket.

Have had one result on a black one but never on the brown one's. 

How do you catch the black crikets in the garden.

 

[Andre Laas]

I have always found that the black crickets yield better results than the brown ones. My best explanation for this is that because of their dark colour and bigger size, they provide better contrast in dirty water.

 

To catch / collect them try the following. In one corner of your garden, set up a spot where you dump some crass clippings, and soft garden waste (leaves etc), and put a piece of shade cloth or similar material over this. Keep this pile moist but not soggy wet. Soon you will get some crickets moving in. You can catch them by hand by lifting up the tarp, or you can bury a small bucket in the pile so that the rim is at the level of the surface of the plant materials. Now put a piece of bread in the bucket, and leave it overnight. Next morning you should have some crickets trapped in the bucket.

 

[mahomedhoosein]

Thanks alot will try this out.

 

[cornelius]

I use to collect them underneath the sreet lights at night especially in areas where the street borders on a piece of veld in the suburb where I live.

 

[mahomedhoosein]

Critter wrote:

 

To catch / collect them try the following. In one corner of your garden, set up a spot where you dump some crass clippings, and soft garden waste (leaves etc), and put a piece of shade cloth or similar material over this. Keep this pile moist but not soggy wet. Soon you will get some crickets moving in. You can catch them by hand by lifting up the tarp, or you can bury a small bucket in the pile so that the rim is at the level of the surface of the plant materials. Now put a piece of bread in the bucket, and leave it overnight. Next morning you should have some crickets trapped in the bucket

 

Should these grass clippings be fresh or damp old brown grass.

 

[Unlimited]

ive never had success on em... so i stopped using them. But we used to poor water into their holes in between the grass and they would come out

 

[Andre Laas]

mahomedhoosein wrote:

Critter wrote:

 

To catch / collect them try the following. In one corner of your garden, set up a spot where you dump some crass clippings, and soft garden waste (leaves etc), and put a piece of shade cloth or similar material over this. Keep this pile moist but not soggy wet. Soon you will get some crickets moving in. You can catch them by hand by lifting up the tarp, or you can bury a small bucket in the pile so that the rim is at the level of the surface of the plant materials. Now put a piece of bread in the bucket, and leave it overnight. Next morning you should have some crickets trapped in the bucket

 

Should these grass clippings be fresh or damp old brown grass.

It can be either, or a combination of both. They like warm humid places which rotting plant material provides.