Gecko control

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hellbunny

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I've got these around my house (which doesn't bother me) and in my house (which is a great nuisance). Any advice on keeping them out/away? Call a pest control service?
 
We call 'em peepers, since they make a kind of peeping call to each other. The scorpions get them around my house. Poor little buddies do better in the city.
Either live with them, or live with the roaches that they eat.
 
I'd rather live with the bugs. At least I know I can treat them and I have no compunction squishing them. The geckos freak out my wife and I don't enjoy seeing them either (or stepping on them, ick). They seem to congregate outside my backyward door where I've also seen quite a lot of bugs. I haven't seen any bugs inside; just had the place fumigated and treated.
 
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I assume what you are referring to aren't really "geckos" with the suction cup feet and all, but if they freak you out, it doesn't make much of a difference. I believe they are a type of small, harmless lizard. They do curtail the bug population on your premesis, but I don't thing there really is a way to get rid of them, at least no way I have heard of. Geckos run in a zig-zag formation, while other species dart around. I personally find them pretty cool and don't have a problem with having them in my home, but I can see why some folks don't like them. Diff'rent strokes.
 
Seems like the little ones like to be in the bathrooms. I'm assuming their coming in through the vents. That's 4 I've removed in a week. Caught one in the hallway. Google turned up nothing except a) control their food source and b) seal everything in your home.
 
reboot,
Yes, the little pinkish reptiles you find at everybody's porch light are really geckos.

And I'll second the notion about using a cat to control the ones that make it inside.
 
Or a dog. My dog is immediately on anything that moves. It's hilarious when a fly gets in the house.
 
I will rent you my cat, Bluto, for a nominal fee, as gecko torturing is one of his hobbies. We also caught a neighbor's kid in our flower beds once, capturing our gecko population. He was selling them to pet stores to feed to snakes. Do you have any enterprising kids in your area? Or maybe your wife would like a second income in the flourishing gecko trade. We just live with the occasional gecko that gets in to the house, but maybe you have more of them.
 
I'd love to get a cat but my wife is vetoing that (for now). I've been educating my wife about them so she's not freaking out as much. I've talked to friends in the area and they all have them. I really don't mind except I don't want to step on one (which I have before) since we go barefoot inside the house. That was unpleasant.
 
we get them every summer. I dont mind em, my mom and sister hate em. Whenever they find em they get out the lil shop-vac and suck em up.
 
I don't mind them. They eat the bugs aroung the outside of the house. Occasionally one strays into the house - or my son puts one in my daughters bathroom, and I have to deal with the screams, but the boy just takes them outside and they eat more insects.

Geckos are cool. My labs even think they are cool.
 
I had an infestation of flying ants in my back yard one spring. The buggers had hatched (or whatever they do) and were swarming against my fence.

A herd of geckos came calling and for the next hour I sat there with my son watching the gecks hang back and then swoop done on them while they weren't looking.

Total entertainment.
 
I have 2 cats so I have seen only 1 lizard in the house and it was mortally wounded. They don't bother me one bit, I like having them around.
 
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