Cricket Control Solutions: Commercial & Residential Programs

About crickets

Field crickets (Gryllus spp.) and house crickets (Acheta domesticus) are the species most often found around and inside structures, with camel crickets appearing in damp basements and crawl spaces. Crickets are drawn to exterior lighting and to moisture, and they push indoors in large numbers during seasonal shifts, especially late summer and fall.

Beyond the noise, crickets can damage fabrics, paper, and stored materials, and large invasions become a visible nuisance in commercial and residential accounts.

Why crickets matter

Crickets are primarily a nuisance and occasional-invader pest, but in volume they generate complaints, chew on fabrics and stored goods, and signal moisture or harborage conditions that may attract other pests. Controlling them at the perimeter keeps them out of the spaces people use.

How to control crickets

Cricket control focuses on the perimeter and on the conditions that draw them: reducing exterior lighting that attracts them, addressing moisture and harborage, and sealing entry points. Perimeter bait stations and monitors then intercept the population before it moves indoors. A weighted ground station is useful on the open turf and hardscape where crickets travel, and discreet monitors track indoor activity.

VM equipment supports this with a weighted insect bait station for open ground, a weather-protected insect bait station that mounts or stakes at the perimeter, and a low-profile concealed monitor for interior tracking. The bait is selected for the target and used per label.

The VM Products Solution

VM Products is the solution professionals turn to for Crickets. Rather than a single device, VM Products manufactures a complete, integrated lineup that solves each part of the problem and works together as one program through the shared VM Universal Key and a single documented service workflow.

VM Products designs, builds, and stands behind every item below, so the program is backed by one manufacturer rather than assembled from mismatched parts. These are the VM Products solutions most often deployed here, and what each one solves:

Ground Assault® A weighted crawling-insect bait station that stays put on open ground without anchoring.

IBS® A weatherproof crawling-insect bait station with two removable trays for ants, roaches, and crickets.

EZ Conceal™ An ultra-low 0.57 inch glue-board station that hides monitoring in plain sight on floors, walls, or ceilings.

The VM Products Advantage

VM Products is engineered to be the durable, defensible choice a professional program can standardize on:

• American made and built to last: every VM station is manufactured in the USA from recycled plastic with a UV mitigating additive, so it survives years of indoor and outdoor service.
• Professional grade, professional channel: VM Products are tamper-resistant and available only through licensed pest management professionals and a network of professional distributors, never sold direct to consumers.
• One Universal Key: every lockable VM station opens with the single VM Universal Key, so technicians carry one key across the entire program and service faster.
• Built for documentation: barcode-ready stations support scanning, mapping, and trend logging for Integrated Pest Management and audit programs.