Camel crickets giving DMV residents the creeps

They look like scary spiders, live in the dark and can jump more than a foot with each hop. Cold weather brings these hopping invaders inside area homes.

[SuperScaryCrickets]

My family tradition is calling them Spickets (spider+cricket) I'm not scared of much but when these things jump at you, you nearly pass away

[curlyhead_toniocurlyhead_t]

I have a gecko so I would just let him eat them

[ashleigh]

it’s 4:30am and i refuse to go back into my room because i saw one of these walk across my floor

[justadrum]

BRUH!!! We used to have these under our old wooden patio. They got into the recycling bin and at night if you bumped it, you would hear at least 20-50 of them moving around and jumping; one of my most skin crawling experiences.

[vonmcknight]

“They are harmless they don’t even bite” …. Sprays it with bug spray…cricket charges at me…..Soul gone.

[maxxlyghter]

Saw it on my floor and I don’t know what it was so I fell while trying to run away lmao

[shirokun]

I have a phobia of grasshoppers and crickets in general but these literally make me wanna pass out when i see one.

Couple weeks ago saw one crawl into my bathroom freaked out grabbed the biggest heaviest box i could find and slammed it down where it was and stepped on the box and i havent moved it since. My mom came over and was like why is there a smashed chewy box in the bathroom i said dont worry about it.

[fuzzyslippers]

I spit on one thinking it was a spider and it started jumping towards me. Scariest life experience ever

[total_potato]

I'm am feared of the spider crickets only the big one is one of fear.

[brookehayes]

One was n my kitchen and I sprayed it with posion it jumped at me and I lost my soul

[northernsoutherngirl]

Today is 9/30/22 & I live in Maryland. The reason I looked this info up is because I was just about to go to bed when I saw one of these things in my hallway. Thank goodness I had some Ortho Home Defense & kept spraying his hopping ass. It eventually keeled over. I grabbed it up with a napkin, put it in a trash bag & threw it away. Yuck!!

[RandomPickle]

Every time I go down stairs to work out theirs at least 100 baby's and at least 30 adult Cambell crickets

[potatobraus]

Ewwww never saw one of them until today I was using my phone and when I turned around to get my headphones I see that nasty black insect frozen on the floor. It took me 7 minutes to have to courage to exterminate its existence lol

[missrese]

We haven't seen any since 2022 with our last exterminator visit. Im having them come out this Wednesday because aint nobody got time fuh dat!!!

[layladanny]

One time I seen a few of them with huge black eyes, i diden't know what those were and got alittle scared there, 🤣🤣 now I know they were spider crickets but the kind I seen was a diffrent kind there are alot of diffrent kinds, the ones I seen had way bigger eyes than them. And they are harmless tho.

[BreadlySteadly]

I just discovered the existence of these guys today and they weirded me out. I googled what they were, came back to catch one I saw, and poof! It was gone.

[koezysworld]

This was uploaded a day right before my 14th birthday xd

[joestoes]

I saw one of these bastards crawling on my floor 2 months ago, killed him, and went on with my day. To my horror I just saw 3 of these little rascals running across my floor. There’s definitely more somewhere. HOW DO I GET RID OF THEM.

[boico]

Normally, , you spray inserts killer in summer time around your outside house.. 10 at once’s.. then they never came it your house

[CALAdmin]

Glue traps work amazing for these little shits. Sadly you must be prepared to catch mammals like mice who wander onto the trap.