How do I stop a cricket chirping inside my wall?
Crickets trapped behind baseboards or walls can chirp continuously for weeks, preventing sleep and concentration. Because they are hidden in inaccessible spots, standard tracking attempts fail and leave people desperate for a way to stop the noise without necessarily killing the bug.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
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- 1swiping objects underneath the baseboard gapDid this help you?
- 2spraying lavender and peppermint essential oilsDid this help you?
- 3Waiting for them to die off when it gets cold outsideDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“the ones in the wall can chirp for weeks which gets old fast”source ↗
“I can also hear a cricket in the basement. I've found a few dead ones inside the basement as well, so I know they have some way of getting inside.”source ↗
“there’s been one singular cricket chirping in my room nonstop since I moved in a week ago.”source ↗
“I’ve tried tracking it down to see where the chirping is coming from, and it’s underneath the baseboards.”source ↗
“I don’t care about killing the thing I just want the chirping to stop😭 any recommendations would be appreciated, I can’t deal with this anymore.”source ↗
Where this came up
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