Cricket infestation taking over south Sask. farm [Video]

James Schiller says crickets are taking over his farm southwest of Regina.

“It’s just an annoyance,” he told CTV News. “I’ve noticed them in the garden, eating potatoes and the corn.”

“And the kids and wife don’t like them.”

Schiller has lived in the area for 45 years.

For the past few years, he’s been dealing with an increased number of grasshoppers.

Now, potentially thousands of crickets fill not only the grass, but the air with their chirping.

“The grasshoppers are worse for the damage,” Schiller said. “But the crickets are for the pure annoyance.”

Schiller remembered just one other time the sound of crickets has been this loud.

“Back in the [1980s] I remember there being a lot,” he said. “After all the grasshoppers when it was dry.”

“It seems to be cyclical,” Schiller added. “But not as bad as it is now.”

As you walk through the yard, an innumerable number of crickets jump from the grass. They also crawled throughout the farm shop and …