As a child and teenager I was terrified of insects, butterflies included (I didn’t like the movement of the wings) and animals. Now I have learnt to live with animals, mud, insects, cow pats and worse because most of the animals are more frightened of me than I could be of them and most of the “nastiness” washes off with a bar of soap and a nail brush.  I am not sure about crickets in the house if this is indeed a cricket.