My bedroom has lots of chingchoks, which I don't mind as I understand they eat mosquitoes, which probably explains why my room, which is adjacent to greenery and has open (non-glass) windows, is very mosquito light. However, I've noticed three chingchoks recently recently, that lost their fear of me, slowly stopped moving  and eventually died (at least the first two did, the third is in the slowly losing movement phase). Anybody know what's going on here?

You got hypnotic power?

They are probably contacting insect spray, or something else that is killing them. 

Fly sprays kill them 

Matbe your neighbor  is spraying it 

Gheckos are harmless and are beneficial in controlling flying insects such as mosquitoes (as you quite rightly stated).

 

For reference (Google)

 

The only thing I have found that not only kills geckos, but really turns them off, and gets them to move on is insect spray. I have had huge geckos in my home before. They are hard to catch. I sprayed them directly on the face with an ample amount of insect spray, and it seemed to really dull them and slow them down.

They might be harmless, but they poop everywhere and make me jump.  I have some anti-lizard spray which seems to slow them down so they can be swept up and chucked outside where they belong.

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

They might be harmless, but they poop everywhere and make me jump.  I have some anti-lizard spray which seems to slow them down so they can be swept up and chucked outside where they belong.

 

Ordinary mossie spray will stun then and make them fall to the ground, where you can stamp on the pests. Horrible things always getting in the rubbish bins, I kill on sight.

I walk around my house at night with a flashlight and a fly swatter and a long pole and I play a game with them. Sometimes I win and can make them fall to the ground where I can crush them, and other times the buggers scammer off with their neat disappearance techniques and I lose. I have finally eradicated many but still hunt for the remaining miscreants at night. I just got tired of them <deleted>ting all over the inside of the house. It has become kinda fun and I can can go to battle with them each night.

Catch them and tear off their tails. They'll grow another one.

1 hour ago, watgate said:

I walk around my house at night with a flashlight and a fly swatter and a long pole and I play a game with them. Sometimes I win and can make them fall to the ground where I can crush them, and other times the buggers scammer off with their neat disappearance techniques and I lose. I have finally eradicated many but still hunt for the remaining miscreants at night. I just got tired of them <deleted>ting all over the inside of the house. It has become kinda fun and I can can go to battle with them each night.

 

Me too.  It's astonishing how they can disappear in a flash.

On 11/18/2024 at 8:56 PM, watgate said:

I walk around my house at night with a flashlight and a fly swatter and a long pole and I play a game with them. Sometimes I win and can make them fall to the ground where I can crush them, and other times the buggers scammer off with their neat disappearance techniques and I lose. I have finally eradicated many but still hunt for the remaining miscreants at night. I just got tired of them <deleted>ting all over the inside of the house. It has become kinda fun and I can can go to battle with them each night.

Get a cat. Ours make sport of stalking and snatching them off the walls, with fascinating aerial acrobatics.