Please tell me how to avoid lizards in houses/rooms in?

Question

please let me know how to avoid lizards in our houses. they are really troubling my children and doenot look nice to see in house. please tell me a feasible and practically possible solution.

Answer 1

Lizards freak me out in our house too! What I found though, was that they seemed to be following bugs. Lizards love to eat flies, ants, any small insect, if they followed a scent or trail of an insect, they are attracted to where they will get food. So you make sure and repel their food source and it may get rid of your lizard problem.

Please don't run out and buy conventional and dangerous chemicals to get rid of the lizards, they are hazardous to the environment and to children and pets as well.

I have something that I use that is non-toxic, safe for the environment and works effectively and at a fairly low price also. I don't have to worry if my dog licks it up or the kids touch it. It won't hurt them to be in the room with it and it won't stink you out of your house.

You can use this to rid your house of creatures like roaches, beetles, crickets and termites, etc. Just mix it with water in a spray bottle and you can then spray baseboards, cabinets, your household plants, any surface you have seen the lizards, remember they are looking for food or they would not be there.

If you want to know more details about the product I'm referring to, just let me know and I'll be happy to tell you where to get it!

Answer 2

Get rid of the insects that they feed on. Seal up any cracks and seams that they can sneak in through.
Please, for the health of your children, don't try doing the pest control yourself. All of those bug sprays and bug bombs are POISON to the bugs and to your kids' developing neurological systems. Hire a professional pest control service. It will end up being less expensive than repeatedly buying those largely ineffective pesticides that are sold to the public.
btw I'm not in the pest control business, just a resident of the most buggy state in the Union.

Answer 3

Tell your children to grow up. Lizards are not harmful to anyone or anything. I do agree that they are not the ideal house pet. Like the person said, get a cat and don't feed it a lot.

Answer 4

Lizards generally stay close to source of light to prey on the tiny insects which are attracted to light . Stick peacock feathers at these points on the wall with cello tape

Answer 5

Little grown up kittens love lizards, or often use Hit, but lizards eat of smallinsects,sometimes baby roches too.Skinny kittens cant catch mouse but they easily catch lizzy. This way stray cats are very useful.

Answer 6

Buy a spud pistol and shoot them. This is the best way. I am going to do this myself. Shooting at them annoys them and this puts them off. Continuous sniping at them for many years leads them to learn to stay away. But lizards being slow learners, this may take time. If any one knows a better and faster method, please let me know.

Leave empty egg shells around. Lizards hate them.

Answer 7

By now you must be knowing where the lizards come from, so keep empty egg-shells in front of the entrance or place they come from. This will prevent them from coming inside.

Answer 8

Where ever the lizards are found to
be staying in the house during day
time, please keep empty dried, egg
shells.

The lizards are afraid of broken
egg shells. They will disappear soon.

This is time tested affir in Bengal>

Answer 9

LIZARD CONTROL........

Lizards, like snakes, are opportunistic.
Gardens, ponds and streams allow populations to
prosper. Sprinkler systems will deliver enough
water to keep any lizard happy and this leads to
many taking up residence along outside foundation
walls. Most species of lizards in North America are
harmless and eat small insects. Vegetation such as
shrubs and flowers are excellent nesting areas for
many types. These same plants can become a target
for lizards that will find them to be a great source
of water during dry spells or in arid regions
when water is sparse.
Controlling lizards is easy. Like snakes,
there is no "spray" for them. To keep lizard
populations down, simply keep insect populations
down. By treating the foundation and landscape
around your buildings, you will keep insect
populations in check. Use a product like CYPERMETHRIN
for quick knockdown and control of outdoor roaches,
ants and crickets. If you allow these insects to
thrive around your home, lizards and other undesirable
creatures will move in for the free food. By treating
around your home on a regular basis, these populations
will be kept in check. Use a good PUMP SPRAYER for
doing the work and by keeping these insects in check
you will be keeping lizards away. You can also use
an aerosol treatment like BAYGON which comes with
a crack and crevice tip for getting the treatment
deep into voids where insects and lizards hide.
The treatment will kill off unwanted insects which
serve as food and the treatment will also irritate
lizards so they won't live in treated areas.
If you have the lizards living in the home,
you will definitely need to use the Aerosol along
with setting out some Lizard Traps. Since most
lizards are insect eating, use a Glue Trap which
has insect odor in the glue or that can be added.
Roach scented LIZARD GLUE TRAPS placed out along
baseboards, under furniture, on countertops or
any place where you have seen lizards are very
effective at catching and holding most common
nuisance lizards. The roach pheromones are in the
form of small pills which are simply dropped onto
the glue trap. Undetectable by people but quickly
found by foraging lizards, these boards can be
used to trap out local populations. If you have a
lot of larger lizards, you might have to make your
own glue traps. BULK GLUE is basically nothing
but the glue in a pail which can be removed and
placed on cardboard, wood, plastic sheets, thin
metal or any hard non-porous material. These
custom made Glue Traps should be made large enough
to insure you will be able to trap out whatever
sized lizards are currently being seen. It is not
uncommon for these traps to reach sizes of 2 feet
wide by 4 feet long! By custom making your trap
you can insure you have a large enough "catch area"
for the job at hand. Also, by applying the glue
directly to surfaces on which you note activity, you
will be able to catch your target in a place where the
pre made traps could not be applied. Trapped lizards
can then be released by pouring vegetable oil where
it has attached itself to the glue. They can also
be destroyed if numbers are excessive and over
abundant. If releasing, be sure to do so at least
1 mile away to insure they won't return.
If you are having a problem with lizards that
are either feeding on or extracting water from
plants growing in the yard, you can try spraying
them with the Cypermethrin listed above. It won't
hurt the plant and by reducing the insects which
are active on the plant, you may be able to force
the lizard to look elsewhere for food. Since the
Cypermethrin has a sour taste, it can sometimes
chase them away by bad taste alone. However,
lizards will readily feed on succulent plants - like
cacti - from which they can derive their need for
water. This is a common problem in arid or dessert
regions where water can become hard to find. If
you have some type of plant that lizards are targeting
as a water supply, there are two ways you can
attempt to stop the damage they do. For some species
of lizard, treating the plant with some ROPEL LIQUID
will force them elsewhere. This bad tasting liquid
won't hurt the plant but is detectable by some species
of lizard. The ones that can taste won't like it
and will leave alone any plant that is sprayed.
Expect to retreat the plant once a week till all
damage stops. Lizards will learn to go elsewhere
to get their need for water fulfilled and once
they move on you can usually reduce applications
to once a month. If the species of lizard active
on your property does not seem to have a sense of
taste, the Ropel won't work. To stop these lizards,
you will have to protect the targeted plants with
some ANIMAL/LIZARD NETTING. This fine mesh plastic
is annoying to lizards when they try to chew through
it. The plastic will get in their teeth and though
it won't present any hazard to them, it will prevent
them from being able to properly chew. This annoyance
is more than enough to get them to forage elsewhere.
The netting is easy to apply and install and will
last a long time. Be sure to place it around any
plant you want to protect and replace it annually
or as needed. Since the need for water can become
a matter of survival, most any plant can become
a target of thirsty lizards. Animal/Lizard Netting
can prove to be well worth the time and cost when
trying to save precious plants from these foraging
pests.

Answer 10

Get a cat and teach it by catching one and letting play with it. It's natural curiosity will take it from there. The cats in my neighborhood just ate them.