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What homeowners can do: fences, baits and safety tips explained
Summary
State entomologist advised homeowners on local protective measures — cricket fences, edge baiting and labeled insecticidal soaps — and cautioned against unsafe DIY actions like burning eggs.
Jeff Knight offered practical, low‑risk measures residents can take to reduce local impacts from Mormon crickets.
He recommended temporary cricket fences for small acreages and baiting along property edges to draw crickets away from homes, and advised homeowners to follow product labels carefully. "If it were me and I saw crickets, I wouldn't do anything till the crickets were 0.5 mile away or a mile away. I would personally, I would use a cricket fence," Knight said. He discouraged unsafe measures such as setting fires to destroy eggs and suggested using labeled insecticidal soaps rather than household cleaners.
Knight also noted commercial availability of carbaryl baits (Eco brand and others) at local feed stores and cautioned that granular carbaryl is not an attractive bait formulation. He recounted one local pet poisoning case tied to a tampered pelleted bait and urged careful storage and use according to labels.
