Armies of Crickets are Everywhere!

We noticed one yesterday, a lone greyish brown thing walking right past my couch as I was lounging in peace. In an instant the invading cricket was crushed underneath a pair of nearby crocs. I was astonished, where on earth did he come from exactly? Before I had the time to process that thought, another cricket appeared right in the spot where the first dead one was. He too was crushed with the crocs. Now scared, I decided we must have an infestation of cockroaches somewhere and before I scanned the room to decide on the ideal placement of the nest, a third cricket appeared!

The last of three musketeers was just standing there, quietly, idly, doing nothing. As I looked closely at him, he seemed dazed and clearly wasn’t a cockroach. He was more of a grasshopper than a roach and thankfully when he at last met his fate, no other comrades appeared. Now in all my three decades of living in Kuwait, I’ve never seen a cricket inside a living room before, let alone three of them appearing within a minute of each other. I’ve heard them on in the bushes, yes. They’ve been more annoying and much louder recently, yes. I knew we had to spray the entire house with whatever poison they use to kill pests.

Then today I noticed everyone complaining on instagram! People have been seeing them everywhere where they shouldn’t be and killing them on daily basis! Apparently they all look a bit dazed for some reason and they actually do fly! How gross! My husband says they are also can get inside your ears and needless to say my body have been itching all over since I’ve realised the swarms of crickets are advancing on us. I’m itching right now, imagining a throng of crickets lurking beneath my couch waiting to fly and attack me, ugh!

Have you seen these crickets? Do you have any idea how they are slipping inside the houses, offices, or cars? What happened? Is it a change in the eco system that’s causing them to spread? Is there anything we can do to stop them coming inside?