Cricket Invasion

When they said "Everything's Bigger in Texas" they weren't kidding! Earlier this year, Floresville (where I work) was infested with these large ,black, stink beetles. The beetles are finally gone and now we're overrun with crickets. San Antonio has an annual cricket season from June to August. Last year there weren't very many at all because the extremely hot and dry weather killed all the cricket larva. On average, hundreds of thousands of cricket eggs are laid every year with only 25% actually surviving and becoming new crickets. We have been blessed with lots of rain and much cooler temperatures this summer (we haven't hit 100 degrees at all!). Unfortunately that means that instead of a fourth of the eggs hatching, we had somewhere between 70% and 80% of the eggs hatch this year. There are crickets EVERYWHERE. It's so disgusting here at work. In the pictures below you can see crickets piled up outside our building and in the parking lot. We've sprayed numerous times and even though they die, more hatch everyday so we can't stop them. It's horrible. I hope the season ends soon!