The War Against Crickets

Call me crazy, but I consider myself one of those people who pretty much thinks that insects belong outdoors (unless, of course, they are dead, and you have them in a controlled insect collection).  In fact, I have been known to be somewhat freaked out by finding these little guys outside of their natural habitats and inside of mine.  For example, when I was living in American Fork, UT, I found a gigantic spider in my dirty clothes basket as I was sorting laundry.  It immediately started scurrying all over the place and ended up underneath my bed.  So, I grabbed the broom from my kitchen, jumped on my bed and randomly started hitting at things under my bed.  It didn't work because the little booger was pretty quick.  So, I called my sister for some moral support.  I didn't get any.  She was working on her Relief Society lesson and didn't have time for humoring me.  So I called my mom and got the same response.  Then I remembered that I was a horticulturist by profession, and knew how to handle unwanted pests: pesticide.  So, I ran back to the kitchen, grabbed the bottle of houseplant pesticide from under the sink, ran back to my bedroom (and when I say ran, I mean I took about 5 steps from my bed to my kitchen sink...it was a small place), and I dropped to the floor and sprayed in the general direction of the glowing eyes.  The poor spider never knew what hit him.  Nor did the earwig in the bathtub.  Or the beetle on the carpet in the living room.  I'm kind of glad the mouse that I found in my living room in American Fork was already dead because I don't think my houseplant pesticide would have worked on it, and I don't think I could stomach it if it did.  I loved living there...or at least found it interesting!  I think my poor blue dustpan was used more for picking up after little critters than actual dust!  So here I am a few years later, and I still don't like having insects in my home.  Today I went down to the basement to look for 12 month clothes for Nicholas.  As I pulled a few bins out to rummage through, the last one revealed 5 of the biggest crickets I've ever seen!  Well, actually only a couple were that big, and the other three were still tiny...but they'll get to be bigger!  I would have screamed because they look kind of like spiders, but we had one down by our food storage a few weeks ago and Brandon came down in response to my scream then and told me that they were, in fact, crickets.  Today I just said, "Sweetie, can you come here for a sec?"  We didn't do anything to them, but I just had Brandon restack the bins so I wouldn't have to.  Then I googled these things and found out that they are camel crickets, I think.  All I know if that they are disgusting and if I see two more down there, I think I'm calling the landlord and requesting an exterminator!