Posted: 9/11/2009 9:11:25 AM EDT
| There is a blue tailed lizard in our apartment that has got to go. What is the best way of getting rid of it? |
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Umm.... Oh, I don't know....maybe, catch it and throw it outside? Is it a "blue tailed" skink? I don't mind snakes or the little anoles (American chameleons), but those blue tailed skinks skeeve me out for some reason. Maybe it's the name. That said, if it's outside, it's eating bugs that could be inside your place, I'd let him alone. |
Is this the offending reptile? I caught this one in front of my entertainment center. I only bothered to catch him because he irritated my dog...  They eat a metric shit-ton of spiders, so unless he's "bothering" you, let him be. I never did catch this one...he was in the dining room and evaded my attempts to pounce on him...  |
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He will leave when he runs out of bugs to eat. Leave him alone. This would be my answer also. He's not doing any harm, in fact he's getting rid of the critters that you really don't want.... Yes, and he's leaving little drops of Ammonium Nitrate all over the place as he is doing so... Win/Win, leave him alone. |
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I have geckos in my place, and I LOVE 'EM! They spend all evening crawling on the ceiling, eating mosquitoes. A buddy of mine here in Phnom Penh has a promotion at the bar he owns where if a gecko barks 8 times in a row, he'll ring the bell and buy the house a round.
This lizard doesn't bark, does it? |
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Is this the offending reptile? http://images116.fotki.com/v695/photos/2/28682/3443513/IMG_3892-vi.jpg]http://images116.fotki.com/v695/photos/2/28682/3443513/IMG_3892-vi.jpg]http://images116.fotki.com/v695/photos/2/28682/3443513/IMG_3892-vi.jpg That's it. It freakes the wife out and I don't want my daughter around it. I bought glue traps and my daughter was in one in less than a min. You don't want your daughter around it? What's it going to do... rip her throat out? It's A LIZARD. Not Godzilla. 
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I have geckos in my place, and I LOVE 'EM! They spend all evening crawling on the ceiling, eating mosquitoes. A buddy of mine here in Phnom Penh has a promotion at the bar he owns where if a gecko barks 8 times in a row, he'll ring the bell and buy the house a round. This lizard doesn't bark, does it? When I was in BKK there was a gecko (or thre..) in my apartment. One evening I disrobed, took a nap, woke up to go back out, and as I grabbed my socks to put them back on, a little gecko poked hi head out of my sock. He scared me, and I screamed like a little girl and threw the sock across the room. Never saw him again. 
Back to the OP, if it's a 5-lined skink (like pictured above) be sure that when (if...) you man up and catch him, you don't grab the tail - he can drop his tail and get away. Grab him in the body somewhere. |
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Catch it and put it outside. Don't kill him. He eats the bugs and spiders. He doesn't belong indoors so let him out. I'll try not to kill him. Everytime I see him, he's running under the sofa. DUH!!!... Just put your sofa outside, dummy. Sheesh! |
other than the 6" palo verde beetles that come out every year - my cat couldn't dispose of those bad boys|
Holy shit, that was funny. Iraqis are mostly scared to death of little lizards. Even the Kurdish ICTF guys (who are bad motherfuckers) wouldn't come near me if I had a gecko in my hand. |
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Catch it and put it outside. Don't kill him. He eats the bugs and spiders. He doesn't belong indoors so let him out. I'll try not to kill him. Everytime I see him, he's running under the sofa. DUH!!!... Just put your sofa outside, dummy. Sheesh! 
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Holy shit, that was funny. Iraqis are mostly scared to death of little lizards. Even the Kurdish ICTF guys (who are bad motherfuckers) wouldn't come near me if I had a gecko in my hand. Thais don't like them much either, for the most part! Even Tony Jaa, the martial arts movie guy, had a tough time with them during filming of The Protector! I had to laugh when they showed the shooting of the scene in the Special Features on the DVD. Guy can knock a guy's head off with both knees after jumping across a room, and gets upset around a little gecko! 
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We have Mediterranean House Geckos in numbers around here. We see them in the garage and sometimes in the house.
We just catch them and put them outside. Well, we try to catch them, even the babies are very fast and scamper away quickly. The cat and dog sometimes catch one, but by that time the little geckos are pretty well gone and there's nothing we can do to save them. My son and I would like to catch some and put them in an aquarium and keep them if we knew how to care for them. The wife's against it, but thinks they're cute. |