AAAHHHH - Jumping Spiders?!?!?

[SharpMomOfTwo]

Ok - I don't know what he deal is, but all of the sudden, we have had like 4 of these things in the house!!! They are so nasty and scary looking, I swear they make me want to sell my house and get the heck outa here!! Anyone else ever have these? Do you know what they are???? They look like a cross between a spider and a cricket.

 

[Mom2Nick]

Camelback Crickets and if you are seeing them in the house chances are you have a nest in there.

 

[MsSpinShady]

Would somebody please post a tiny picture of these so I know what to watch out for. I'm too terrified to actually google them up myself.

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

Camelback Crickets and if you are seeing them in the house chances are you have a nest in there.

Ok - I looked it up, and yeah, thats it. They are nasty lookin little suckers!!! DH just cleaned out the basement the other day, and now all of the sudden we are finding them. We are going to Disney in 9 days - is there a bomb or something like that we can set while were gone to kill them all??

Would somebody please post a tiny picture of these so I know what to watch out for. I'm too terrified to actually google them up myself.

Yeah, heres the site I went to - it has a pic - not to big!

 

[ginna74]

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh icky

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

I'm reading more about them, and people say they are really hard to get rid of!!! Oooh, I'm getting scared!!!!!

 

[Magic Mom]

We call them cave crickets here, and they are awful!

 

[java]

We had ONE a few years ago and I wanted to move. The dog went NUTS! And I was right there with her it was gross and when we sucked it up with the dyson it was STILL ALIVE! The kids thought it was cool.

 

[acejka]

AHHHH! I hate those things! The only thing I hate more than any kind of spider are praying mantis's (manti??)

I choked on my kool-aid when I saw magic mom's picture above!

 

[Mom2Nick]

Ok - I looked it up, and yeah, thats it. They are nasty lookin little suckers!!! DH just cleaned out the basement the other day, and now all of the sudden we are finding them. We are going to Disney in 9 days - is there a bomb or something like that we can set while were gone to kill them all??



Yeah, heres the site I went to - it has a pic - not to big!

Your best bet is to call an exterminator and have them search for the nest and spray.

We had a nest in our old house and try as we might - we did not get rid of the until they found the nest - which was in the insulation of one of our walls in our finished basement.

They will know what to look for and where to look - call them....

 

[LuvOrlando]

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[Disney Doll]

Chances are with the cleaning of the basement you have disturbed their nest which is why they are now "afoot".

An exterminator is the way to go, I would imagine.

 

[Swimnoid]

A cricket in your house is lucky!

 

[denisem]

Just don't move to FL where you'll quickly become acquainted with pregnant wolf spiders.

 

[frndshpcptn]

We have had them as well in our basement. Our cats used to love chasing and trying to catch them. They jump FAST - we used to go afer them with snow shovels to try and kill them.

They are GROSS.

 

[wvdisluv2]

The "jumping spiders" built a nest in our mailbox at work a couple years ago...I would pick up the mail on my way home and bring it back to work in the morning. One afternoon I looked down and saw, what looked like HUNDREDS , of spiders crawling on the mail on my front seat!!!

I pulled over, threw out all the mail and screamed I'm pretty sure I got all the mail back in the car after the fact, but I DID stop picking up the mail on my way out of work!

 

[jewjubean]

uhh i googled the pregn. wolf spiders...ekkk i had the heeby jeebies like nobody's business

 

[SharpMomOfTwo]

The "jumping spiders" built a nest in our mailbox at work a couple years ago...I would pick up the mail on my way home and bring it back to work in the morning. One afternoon I looked down and saw, what looked like HUNDREDS , of spiders crawling on the mail on my front seat!!!

I pulled over, threw out all the mail and screamed I'm pretty sure I got all the mail back in the car after the fact, but I DID stop picking up the mail on my way out of work!

OMG!!! If that had been me my car would have been in the junk yard faster than you could say Cave Crickets!!!!!!

 

[bellebud]

that pic really just looks like a cricket to me... are they a spider or a cricket? do they bite? that's the only thing i'd be scared of.

 

[Mom2Nick]

that pic really just looks like a cricket to me... are they a spider or a cricket? do they bite? that's the only thing i'd be scared of.

They are not a regular cricket. First off they're about 3x the size of a typical cricket and their legs have a span like a spider not close to their body like a cricket. They crawl up walls and ceilings like a spider, they also jump and they're huge and fast and disgusting....