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Geckos and lizards - rainyjim - 11-19-2012
Does anyone know how to attract these critters. Is there anything you can do to get them to come and stick around?
Cheers
rainyjim
RE: Geckos and lizards - Rob Tucker - 11-19-2012
They like to eat mosquitos .... leave your doors and screens open.
;-)
RE: Geckos and lizards - Carey - 11-19-2012
The photographer that takes those Kona gecko shots uses sugar water to get them to stick out their tongues...
Anoles seem to prefer flying things - swarming drywood termites are like candy for them, but we have noticed they also seem to hang out when there are fruit flies about (esp. around our orchard fruit falls, & the compost bin....)
Gecko Images:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/96/Gold_Dust_Day_Gecko.jpg
http://thetyedyediguana.com/product_images/j/154/house-gecko-Hemidactylis-frenatus__93228_zoom.jpg
Anole Images:
http://animal-world.com/encyclo/reptiles/lizards_iguanid/images/GreenAnoleWHLI_Ap4RL.jpg
http://www.wildherps.com/images/herps/standard/000434_brown_anole.jpg
RE: Geckos and lizards - rainyjim - 11-19-2012
That's just it Rob, i've no shortage of mosquitos, recruitment of geckos and lizards is of foremost importance!
Thanks for the ideas Carey ill keep an eye out for them in those places.
I'm staging war against the Mosquito!
Cheers
rainyjim
RE: Geckos and lizards - shave_ice - 11-19-2012
I leave my small compost bucket outside the kitchen door (When it gets full, I transport it to the bigger compost pile) but there are always the brightly colored green geckos hanging out by it, going after the fruit flies I assume.
I have the nocturnal brown geckos too and they like to hang out around the kitchen sink and around the window above the sink. I think they go after the moths they are attracted to the light in the kitchen at night.
RE: Geckos and lizards - Lee M-S - 11-19-2012
Our anoles like the maggots in the compost bin; we often knock a few out of the bin for them to eat. They also like to hang out on our sugar canister. Different lizards, I hope.
RE: Geckos and lizards - rainyjim - 11-20-2012
So far I haven't seen any Anoles, only a very small and brown/black type unsure of the name.
Cheers
rainyjim
RE: Geckos and lizards - Carey - 11-20-2012
The really small shiny black/brown are skinks... they will eat mosquitos, but mostly are more grounded...
image link:
http://farm1.staticflickr.com/174/400417882_ed77adc056.jpg
RE: Geckos and lizards - rainyjim - 11-20-2012
Yup Carey! That's just the critter. A skink huh? Well I've got an army of those guys, just wish they had wings like little dragons so they could buzz about and chew down all the Mosquitos!
Cheers
rainyjim
RE: Geckos and lizards - bananahead - 11-21-2012
Phelsuma Laticauda have been in Hawaii since 8 of these Madagascar lizards were released on the U or H Manoa campus in 1974. there is also another day gecko on Oahu, the eve more attractive and scarcer Phelsuma guimbeaui
both of these day geckos can be attracted by placing out mashed banana or baby food in a lid. They eat insects and fruit, I used to raise day geckos years ago, I had many different types.
Oahu has far more different types of lizards than we do here on the Big Island, ie the impressive Tokay Geckos and even wild Green Iguanas,3 types of Anole including the huge Cuban knight anole and beautiful poison dart frogs that have been here so long (80+ years) they have evoloved slightly when compared to their central american cousins..... the whole state has far more reptiles than youd think, there are about 1/2 dozen different spieces of the tan/brown nocturnal geckos and some are thought to be indigenous, and same with the small skinks, there are also about a 1/2 dozen different types of them too, but the most common one we see here is the metallic skink from Australia (Lampropholis delicata).
PS we also have alot of snakes in Hawaii too unlike those lame rumors that Hawaii is snake free lol
I catch them all the time while doing landscaping in lower Puna. They are called Brahminy blind snake, Brahminy blindsnake or "flowerpot snakes" (Ramphotyphlops braminus), they are all over Puna, but mostly in the less wet areas of Orchidland down to the coast ie HPP has alot of them
save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha