Improved Cricket Trap

My first cricket trap caught a few crickets but nothing to get excited about. The adhesive backed sandpaper ramps did not fare very well outside in rainy weather and came undone.   Still a bit cold out at night but I see alot of crickets while mowing.  It should be possible to trap them!  Well, it's not only possible now with an improved cricket trap but reality...

A dozen caught the first night out with this new trap design. It's not just a cricket trap but also catches other nocturnal insects without the need for electric lighting that go into a separate container from the crickets.

The same bait was used in the first trap but didn't produce this many crickets the entire several weeks it was being used so it must be something about the trap they prefer to the other. 

These are mostly female crickets. Soon to begin trials of a frass-free Clean Bug System cricket enclosure that will in theory go straight from rearing and propagating more crickets to freezing without ever having to open the enclosure except for vacuuming out any mortality or until ready to prepare the whole lot.