What Do Cave Crickets Eat (Hint: It's not your soul)

Cave Crickets also go by the names camel crickets, sprickets, bugs from hell, spider crickets and the scientific name - Rhaphidophoridae (it's not about whether you can pronounce it but rather if you can avoid them at all costs).

These six legged beasts are a lot like goats in that they eat pretty much anything. But very little like goats in that goats are kind of cute and cave crickets are... just not. They mostly eat things like dead insects, drywall flakes, rotting leaves, carpet fibers, cardboard, etc. They will even eat each other if the mood is right... There preferred nourishment is fungai which tends to grow on basement walls if they're damp.

This is one of the reasons they are such a pest control problem. Because these cave crickets can survive pretty darn well without quality food sources available to them.