Do many lizards often enter your house? These tiny reptiles can reduce insect populations, so it's best to keep the lizards out of your home rather than poison or kill them. Read the first step below to learn how to get rid of lizards and keep them from coming back.
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Method 1 of 2: Repel Lizards
Step 1. Move the furniture to reveal the lizard's hiding place
There's no point in getting rid of the lizards if there's plenty of hiding places to use. If you see a lizard in the room, move all the furniture so that the lizard won't hide so you give up. Move the sofa away from the wall, also move stools and chairs, and other objects that can be used as hiding places for lizards.
Lizards love to stay on walls and under objects. If you have a lot of items in your closet, get rid of them so the lizards won't run and hide among your things
Step 2. Close all doors
Close doors that lead to other rooms in your house and cover gaps with towels – lizards are very flexible animals and can escape easily through cracks in doors. Make sure that the only doors and windows that are open are those leading into your yard or outside your house-otherwise you'll just keep chasing them inside your house.
Step 3. Ask a friend to help you
Lizards are fast little animals, as you already know when you try to chase them. It will be easier to steer the lizard where you want it than to run back and forth if you are.
- Walk towards the lizard towards the exit. Ask your friend to block the place where the lizard will be hiding.
- Keep walking towards the lizard and block its path as it tries to escape. Keep guiding the lizard slowly toward the exit until it leaves of its own accord.
Step 4. Use rolled up newspaper to repel lizards
When you're dealing with an unruly lizard, you'll need to poke it with newspaper to get it to move. Gently poke the lizard towards the exit and guide the lizard with the newspaper so it doesn't run in the wrong direction. Don't hit the lizard with the newspaper-be careful not to injure it.
Some people think that lizards are afraid of peacock feathers. Try using peacock feathers to repel lizards if you have them. Peacock feathers won't hurt him
Step 5. Use water to repel lizards
Some people argue that spraying cold water can make the lizard move faster. Fill the bottle with ice and water, then spray it on the lizard. The lizard will get out of the house as quickly as possible.
Step 6. Catch the lizard if you can
If the lizard coming into your home is slow, you may be able to trap it and release it outside, rather than chasing it around your house. Find a jar large enough to catch the lizard and grab a piece of hard cardboard. Catch the lizard in the jar and tuck the cardboard under the jar until the lizard is standing on top of the box. Lift and take the lizard outside, then lift the jar and remove the lizard.
Step 7. Try to chase the lizard at night
Some lizards are more likely to come out at night, and that's a good time to get rid of them. If you see lizards coming out more often at sunset, chase them away at night instead of waiting until noon.
Step 8. Know the benefits of having lizards around your house
While seeing lizards roaming your living room can be uncomfortable, there are many people who welcome lizards. Lizards help humans by eating nuisance insects that make life difficult for us, such as flies and crickets. Not only that - a lizard in the house can be trusted as a sign of good luck. If you can bear to share space with a small lizard, consider letting it stay in your house for a while.
Method 2 of 2: Keeping the Lizard Outside
Step 1. Keep the house clean
Lizards will go to places where their food is insects. If there are a lot of insects in the house, lizards will start gathering there. Keeping your home clean is the best way to keep lizards from entering your home. Make sure you sweep and vacuum your house regularly, and don't let dirty dishes and dusty cutlery build up.
Step 2. Remove all leftover food from inside the house
The presence of food crumbs and leftovers in the house can attract insects and will attract lizards into the house. Throw away all leftover food and make sure the surface of your table or floor is free of food crumbs.
Step 3. Open the problem areas
Take notes in which room you saw the lizard: which room, which corner of the room, under which furniture. Moving the furniture and cleaning the surrounding area will make the area look less attractive to lizards.
Step 4. Take care of a cat
Cats love to eat lizards just as much as they love mice. Keeping a predator will suppress the growth of the lizard population around your home.
Step 5. Close your house
Lizards may be able to enter through cracks under your doors and windows. Make sure your house is completely enclosed to prevent lizards from entering the house.
- Patch holes in the house with a thick cloth to prevent lizards from entering.
- Use door patches and seals to make it harder for animals to enter.
- Install mosquito nets on your windows to ensure they are tightly closed.
Tips
- Approach the lizard slowly. If you startle the lizard, it will immediately hide.
- Lizards are more active at night and make squeaking sounds.
- Geckos are nocturnal and like to climb walls. Geckos can climb windows where geckos hunt for insects that are attracted to light coming from inside the house or from patio lights.
- NEVER poison a lizard-only some types are dangerous. Lizards are your friend, not your enemy.
- Gray lizards are very useful for your garden. Lizards eat small cockroaches and other insects that are harmful to your plants. Lizards even prey on small scorpions.
- Lizards eat insects. Lizards will be very useful if kept indoors.
- If there are a lot of ants in your house, put sugar at the nearest exit. Then, the ants will walk towards the sugar. Slowly, even lizards will lead there! Then sprinkle some sugar outside your house…the lizards will go there too. Now your home is free of lizards!
