diff --git a/scrapy/crawler.py b/scrapy/crawler.py
index 5cbc2d7c5..d05c05d28 100644
--- a/scrapy/crawler.py
+++ b/scrapy/crawler.py
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class Crawler(object):
         try:
             self.spider = self._create_spider(*args, **kwargs)
             self.engine = self._create_engine()
-            start_requests = iter(self.spider.start_requests())
+            start_requests = iter(self.spider.start_requests_with_control())
             yield self.engine.open_spider(self.spider, start_requests)
             yield defer.maybeDeferred(self.engine.start)
         except Exception: