Lizards / geckos

[GeorgeJohnJohn]

I LOVE geckos!  They're cute and they eat bugs.  

Mosquitoes, cockroaches, spiders, centipedes, flies, many other bugs -- hate them.  But geckos?  They never come around me and they serve a great purpose.  

[malt25]

3 hours ago, masuk said:

I can't imagine why anyone would move to the tropics if they have aversions to something as harmless as a little gekko.  The country has a good population of spiders, snakes, pythons, and you worry about a gekko?

The most dangerous thing around a house is a mosquito, transmitting malaria and dengue fever, and you're worried about a harmless gecko, which happens to eat mosquitos.

Me thinks OP might be living in the wrong environment, country. I bet he's not big into camping. Also bet he's not an Aussie.

[HHTel]

They are harmless and they do keep the bugs under control, especially mosquitos.  I have a very large TV and one crawls around the screen in the evening.  I have great fun watching it chase my cursor!

 

Incidentally, as superstition goes over here, if the geckos leave your house then the place is doomed!!!

[giddyup]

17 minutes ago, malt25 said:

Me thinks OP might be living in the wrong environment, country. I bet he's not big into camping. Also bet he's not an Aussie.

Wonder how well he'd sleep with a big Huntsman on the roof of the tent?

[watcharacters]

17 hours ago, KMartinHandyman said:

You’d be surprised the critters you’ll catch on sticky traps placed under everything around the house.

 

I sympathize with your admittedly unfounded concern about geckos in your bedroom.   As much as I happen to like the creatures I also don't care for any uninvited guests in my bed.

 

I hope you'll consider your approach of using the sticky traps outside.   If you  really want to use them  why not  try putting them in your bedroom where the actual undesired behavior is occurring.     Having them outside is indiscriminate in what's killed.    You could even be harming squirrels, cat's, dogs and birds.    Would you want to be responsible for that?

 

Food for thought I hope..

 

[watcharacters]

8 minutes ago, giddyup said:

Wonder how well he'd sleep with a big Huntsman on the roof of the tent?

 

Knowing what I do about spiders,  this guy wouldn't bother me in the least.

 

When I saw one for the first time off the lobby of a Phuket hotel I just wanted to pick him up.   But not  being familiar with that species I just watched it for a while.     

 

It was every bit all of at least 11 cm from toe to toe..

 

Truly beautiful creature.

[giddyup]

2 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

I sympathize with your admittedly unfounded concern about geckos in your bedroom.   As much as I happen to like the creatures I also don't care for any uninvited guests in my bed.

 

I hope you'll consider your approach of using the sticky traps outside.   If you  really want to use them  why not  try putting them in your bedroom where the actual undesired behavior is occurring.     Having them outside is indiscriminate in what's killed.    You could even be harming squirrels, cat's, dogs and birds.    Would you want to be responsible for that?

 

Food for thought I hope..

 

Better still, stop them getting into the house in the first place. I've lived in our house for over 8 years, never had one inside yet. Plenty of the smaller jingjoks, who also keep the mozzie population down. Can't see either variety coming into your bed, they live on the walls and ceiling. Do you think you'd be able to sleep knowing you're torturing a poor harmless creature on a sticky trap?

[jak2002003]

I like them in my house.  I can't sleep if I can hear a mosquito in the bedroom... and I don't like using the chemical insect killer spay where I can breath it in.  I use the geckos instead to catch the insects.... so the little guys earn their keep!  

 

The poop they produce are pellets that dry up quickly and can easily be brushed up and leave no mess.

 

The only time there is a minor problem is if they are fighting and the blood gets on the walls (that is hard to clean off when it dries).

 

At my last house we had a big tokay gecko in the bedroom when we first moved in. Now they are a different story... they smell bad and I did not fancy it landing on my face in the night... so I had to track it down and catch it to let it go outside.

 

Its nice when guests come to stay from my native UK... and they fist see the geckos about.  They are fascinated by they as we don't get them back home.  

 

 

 

 

[nervona81732]

Get over it , go see a Psychologist or move out of SEA. Personally I like the little critters and as we speak a Tokay is serenading me ( fact ). They greatly reduce the bugs at a cost of cleaning a little dinosaur poot every now and then. Hope you get your problem solved. Glad I'm not that paranoid. I'd probably go jump off a condo on the 18th floor.  Cheers bro. Wish you the best of luck.

[sead]

I usually put aircon on max cold. Wait 20min. Then it's easy to catch them with a plastic food container.  Slide a paper under the container. Take a long walk and left it out somewhere 

[Nice Boyd]

I would be more worried with a Python coming  in the toilet

[TSF]

I like the little geckos, enjoy watching them race up and gobble down a flying insect. Don't like finding their little turds on my desk though. Otherwise the don't bother me at all, I like the bigger Tukaes too, good luck if you got a tukae in your house, can lie in bed at night counting the tukkkkkkaws........

 

[Gandtee]

49 minutes ago, TSF said:

I like the little geckos, enjoy watching them race up and gobble down a flying insect. Don't like finding their little turds on my desk though. Otherwise the don't bother me at all, I like the bigger Tukaes too, good luck if you got a tukae in your house, can lie in bed at night counting the tukkkkkkaws........

 

Seven calls are supposed to be good luck. I've heard many sevens, I'm still waiting for the good luck.????

[ckry]

20 hours ago, KMartinHandyman said:

You’d be surprised the critters you’ll catch on sticky traps placed under everything around the house.

Sticky traps - that is disgusting and utterly cruel!

[oldlakey]

20 hours ago, ukrules said:

I don't mind them, they don't appear to attack us so I just ignore them.

 

I had a big ugly cockroach, the type with wings crawling over me inside my bed a while back, I managed to catch and kill it.

 

I have no idea how it got there or what it was doing in there as there's never been any food of any kind inside this bedroom.

 

Once it was dead I went back to sleep. I haven't seen any more since then.

They fly thats how it got there

[oldlakey]

12 minutes ago, ckry said:

Sticky traps - that is disgusting and utterly cruel!

Extremely effective though

My health and the cleanliness of my home comes first

[marcusarelus]

31 minutes ago, oldlakey said:

Extremely effective though

My health and the cleanliness of my home comes first

The mosquito above may have been carrying dengue fever. Notably, tests show that electronic mosquito killers and repellers do not kill a significant fraction of the mosquito population.

Thailand is experiencing its largest dengue epidemic in more than two decades, with a record number of people infected by the mosquito-borne disease and 126 fatalities so far this year, health experts said on Thursday, pointing to climate change as a factor behind the spike in cases.

 

[oldlakey]

4 minutes ago, marcusarelus said:

The mosquito above may have been carrying dengue fever. Notably, tests show that electronic mosquito killers and repellers do not kill a significant fraction of the mosquito population.

Thailand is experiencing its largest dengue epidemic in more than two decades, with a record number of people infected by the mosquito-borne disease and 126 fatalities so far this year, health experts said on Thursday, pointing to climate change as a factor behind the spike in cases.

 

Nothing to do with climate change, in Thailand it's all to do with the usual lack of action as regards the mosquito

Electronic killers do the job in my home, that's in every country I have lived in

No way I am able to put up with what the geckos leave behind

Each to their own

 

[Moonlover]

Spiders and Geckos are both welcome in our home. They eat many insects that are far less welcome, mosquitoes being the prime target as far as I'm concerned.

 

Large Tokays even take mice. I've seen one do it.

 

 

[giddyup]

1 hour ago, oldlakey said:

Extremely effective though

My health and the cleanliness of my home comes first

You sound like you might have a case of OCD. I hate rats, but there is no way I could sleep if I could hear one suffering trying to free itself from a sticky pad.

[DJ54]

Gecko is a protector of you dreams......

[fakename]

I love geckos! I hate mosquitos! Our cat eats a few, but otherwise, the more the better. 

[oldlakey]

4 minutes ago, fakename said:

I love geckos! I hate mosquitos! Our cat eats a few, but otherwise, the more the better. 

I have no time for either

[Rc2702]

Has any1 tried eating these creatures?

[oldlakey]

2 minutes ago, Rc2702 said:

Has any tried eating these creatures?

Fakenames cat has apparently if that's any help 555555

[Rc2702]

Just now, oldlakey said:

Fakenames cat has apparently if that's any help 555555

Mrs has just confirmed she ate a few of them off a grill.

 

Mrs menu when younger consisted of:

 

Baby butterfly 

Geckos

Rat

All the bugs

Ginga (small iguana)

Some kind of small crocodile

Turtle

Frogs

Snake

 

 

 

[NoshowJones]

9 hours ago, garzhe said:

Why you want to kill Geckos. They are harmless to you and they eat the flies, mosquitoes and other unwanted insects in your house. Good to have around.

I agree, apart from the poop.

[NoshowJones]

9 hours ago, Tchooptip said:

I can not sleep either if I know there is one in my room but me it's not for geckos but for cobras 

I hate all insects and I will kill them immediately if they come in to my house.

[NoshowJones]

9 hours ago, Esso49 said:

In my book anything that crawls should be eradicated.  That includes politicians

Especially politicians.

[Rc2702]

Just now, possum1931 said:

I hate all insects and I will kill them immediately if they come in to my house.

You must be a very busy killer