Observe the area for about 2 minutes and count the crickets as they surface. This pipe is then buried in the ground so the slot is at or slightly below the soil surface, with one end feeding into a 5-gallon bucket and the other end capped. Four 10-ft PVC pipes as described feed into a bucket to form the trap. Sound traps attract adults to the highly amplified synthetic or recorded call of male mole crickets. A Sound Trap consists of a caller situated over a collecting device that catches the crickets as they land.
Sound traps are effective only during flight seasons in spring and fall and only adults are taken.
An area in the anterior part of the intestine of the infective juvenile nematodes is modified as a bacterial chamber. In this chamber, the infective juvenile nematode carries cells of a symbiotic bacteria which are usually of the genus Xenorhabdus. The nematodes act as vectors, transporting their bacteria symbionts into the blood stream of an infected mole cricket host, inducing a lethal septicemia usually within 3 days of infection. The bacteria contribute to the symbiotic relationship by providing nutritional requirements for their nematode partners during reproduction in the insect cadavers. The bacteria also maintain suitable conditions for nematode reproduction in dead mole crickets by producing antimicrobial substances that inhibit the growth of a wide range of other micro-organisms.