'Silent' crickets chirping

[UralOwl]

Recently, my supposedly 'silent' brown feeder crickets have been chirping on and off. It's probably got something to do with the warm weather we've been having here in the UK recently - it's normally always around 25-26c during the day where I live and only falls to about 23-24c at night. I don't know squat about cricket anatomy, but I've noticed some of the crickets have molted and developed what seem to be wings. They definitely didn't have them when I originally brought them from the pet store nearly a month ago. I've got roughly about 9 crickets left at the moment, the others have either been eaten or died of old age.

My only issue with it is that their chirps are quite loud and it was keeping me half awake last night. Unfortunately I have to keep the crickets, as well as my spiders and manitds, in my bedroom since the destructive family cat is allowed to roam almost all the other rooms except for the kitchen. The cat knocked over the enclosure to my father's corn snake and killed it about 5 years ago after he only had it for about a month. So there is no way in hell that I'm putting any animals smaller than the cat in any of the other rooms, so I don't have much of an option when it comes to just moving the crickets. I can't put them in the kitchen either, my mother wouldn't allow it.

Is there any way to silence the crickets, or is this just something I have to put up with for the time being?

 

[Big B]

I try and feed off all the males ASAP, since they are the ones chirping. The males lack the ovipositor, a long stinger looking tube at the rear. Cooler temps might slow down the frequency of chirps, this is known as Dolbear's law, but does not apply to all species of crickets.