I guess I've mentioned croaking lizards(geckos) enough for google to throw a few people my way with queries on how to get rid of them, so this is my definitive guide for all those who come this way.
For those of you who have cojones my first line of offence is bug spray :D as depicted here. The fly right off the wall once the spray hits them so try to get them square on the head. The lizards may not pass immediately but they will be left in a disabled state for a while, long enough to sweep them outside or to pick them up with some tissue and discard.
I have seen my parents make attempts to catch them with glue traps but those didn't yield much. I have actually caught a large croaker with a spring loaded rat trap, I guess they like cheese as much as the rats. I have attempted to blind them using a 10mw laser but it seemed to have no effect.
For those of you who are deathly afraid of these things (yeah, even pictures of them) need not read/scroll down any further.
I strongly suspect that I sprayed this bugger before and he some what recovered from it.. but not too well... I doubt he survived his second dose.
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There is a spray called "Ortho Hornet and Wasp Killer" which shoots straight in a line, if you can get that, it wikid for croakers, it literally dissolves them!
Get a cat and the lizards disappear. All you have to do is get through the first few weeks when you find their dissected bodies left all over the place and then there family learns and the lizards stop coming to the house
Pyro is my best fren!!!! (when it comes to lizards that is)
My parents have a few upstairs who seem to be getting fatter and fatter... no clue why they don't deal with them. Maybe they decided to keep them as family pets?!?!
But KG! What kind of thing dat you telling the man? You doah know say SimpleEnigma has decreed that single man mustn't own cat?!
well as my comment in Simpleenigma's post stated I am a cat lover through and through. My problem with cats and lizards is that the cats will leave the chewed up torsos about the place.. like in your shoe so you can find it and be proud of them or something..
maybe one day :D
I have used Raid to kill quiet a few big ones.
lol according to yahoo.com this blog post is rank 3rd in the search results for "croaking lizard".. I guess that makes me a worldwide expert :D
lol...ok Mr. Worldwide Expert...thanks for the tips...nothing new though...doesn't everyone know how to kill a croaking lizard?
why does the lizard have to die? Why?
I guess these lizards must be a really BIG problem why so many persons are online blogging about them. I guess now I'll have to share in it. First of all sprays only leave them stunned for awhile doubt it actually kills them. I used to throw boiling water at them until I ruined a few artwork that was on the wall. Now I use one of those straw brooms that you normally see the Rasta men selling. You have to practice to get it just right and to avoid plaques or ornaments that you may have on the wall. Get a really long broom and stand at least 5 feet away from the wall then wind it up like a baseball batter. Ensure you do this slowly as you don't want it to move while you are getting ready. After that you klaaght it good and proper wid di broom. Ensure you use all your strength! Even if you miss by a couple of inches the blast of the impact on the wall should leave it stunned on the ground for a couple secs or mins. Then you go in for more strikes. I normally use a machete to behead them after delivering the other blows. This is very rewarding :). Then here goes the creepy part....you will have to get some tissue to take it up and throw it away. Also, you may need some Lysol to remove the blood stains on the wall or on the floor.
P.S. The hot(boiling) water really does work.
What would happen if you just left them alone? They don't bite, and if they did, it wouldn't be poisonous? All the toxic stuff you spraying around the place, and all the problems you going through to get rid of them, maybe you should just focus on something else. The croaker in my house minds its own business and mine as well. It seems perfectly happy, and when necessary, I actually talk back to it when I am not interested in hearing its noises. And it listens, most of the time. Leave the critters alone. This is a truly irrational fear. Nobody has a true story about a croaker ever doing anything to them.
mine you croaker crap on everywhere they go.seriously piss me off.but when i do got them,hell's torture awaits.
Yo I know there are some crockas in the apt because I am seeing their droppings everywhere and they are nowhere to be found so I can unleash baygon under their rahtid.
I am going to try an old country tale I heard about setting some syrup and letting them get stuck in it. I truly hate them...grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Lord have mercy! You sick stomach eeh. I was out for the weekend and saw a GIGANTIC one on the wall of a villa was staying at. I have had nightmares ever since. The lizard is about an inch wide and high, and around seven inches long, excluding tail.
The boiling water works well, though the aftermath is messy and this works better if the lizard is on the floor. Another method is rolling up the newspaper to make a rod and paste double side tape on the top of the hand made rod (tape is optional). Like what Anonymous had said, aim and quickly strike out at the lizard. The lizard may be stuck to the tape and got stunned and drop onto the floor, making it very easy to smash that bugger flat with the rod.
But I found one issue with this method since recently, an lizard escaped when I got near by hiding behind the air con making it hard to reach it with the rod. Got to use the glue trap and prayed that that miserable bugger will be trapped soon.
BTW, don't preach about how we should not kill lizards. Cold blooded things have no feelings, and they are true nuisances, invading our houses uninvited. They should be killed with no mercy.
i hate these lil fuccers lol ;; kill all freakin lizards!
Geez people. The cute little geckos may take a bit of time to get used to, but they won't hurt you.
Personally I'd much rather have geckos on the outside of my house (and occasionally have to chase one down inside and trap it with a big bowl), than have a house crawling with roaches and centipedes and other nasty bugs.
OMG, I can't tell you what a relief it is to finally find a blog where people are ACTUALLY giving advise on how to get rid of this unsightly creatures! I've been trying to get rid of the ones at my place for over 2 months now, with no success. I was even trying to do it humanely! But now, I couldn't care less about killing them, I'd rather have mosquitoes that geckos any day! Thanks guys, I'll be trying these tips (Or rather, getting my boyfriend to try them- don't want to have to touch them myself)
i know this sounds very weird, but it just happened five seconds ago. i was throwing paper bullets at this lizard and even though i didn't come close (it's a lot harder than you think) it suddenly fell on it's back, twitched like crazy, then died. i think i gave it a heart attack.
S/less...
While it can be said that the fear of lizards is irrational this does not negate the fact that it is real. I see a croaking lizard and I break out in sweat and if there is no warning of its presence and "mi buck im up" i am off screaming with hands and head flaying. I try the hot water and spray and I am near a heart attack. Fear irrational maybe but scared s-less HECK yes ^-^
All I can say is that in Islam, we know that there is 70,000 Blessings in killing a crockin lizard. Just mek sure you say " In the name of Allah" when you kill it. I hope this will help.
Hate the ugly critters & their disgusting crap!! Bleeding hearts have perhaps not had gecko diarrhoea staining your walls & curtains?? Saw one jumping out of my NTUC shopping bag last night & took care of it with boiling water. Btw, the yellow glue trap from supermarkets is useless - small, expensive & lousy glue. The cheaper pink "U-Like" glue trap is much better but harder to find. Or make your own with rat glue (for outdoor areas).
This is the best way. It works!!!!! Put about 1/2 inch of Pepsi or sugar and water in a pepsi bottle and leave it where the critters frequent. Next morning you will find a greedy,drowned croaker. Just find someone to throw it away and you will be good to go
What? Why would you want to kill those pretty little things? They take care of you by eating bugs that you don't want in your house. And they look so cool :)
Ive got a house chock full of those "pretty little things" maybe Lizard Care would like to buy it from me. I can kill my own bugs but I cant ever seem to kill a croaking lizard
Wow!! what a relief to see so may persons sharing my fear of this lizard with the great bulging eyes watching you, and the noise,my God!! Why the hell cant they just stay outside. Gotta get someone to try some of these things to get rid of them. After all new year coming, new law. but me, as usual staying far from them.
I know this sounds crazy, but I live in New York now and actually miss those little bastards back home...they were a great stress reliever, when I actually thought I had stress...my husband use to go running and screaming, but I used to jump up pon mi bed wid di cutlass, box them off di wall, watch them fly through di air, and yuh haffi ketch dem just as dem land, or less yuh corna dark, then you massacre dem....best murda scene...cutlass in hand, headless lizard, then dismemba dem nasty backside, tail, then foot by foot...cleaning up, leave that to the freaked out husband, who cuss sey yuh wicked fi kill di lizard suh...
@Aug 1, 2010 10:55:00 PM
Amazing. Today I had to kill one. Pinned it down with a stick, thought it was dead, I was wrong. I caught it a second time and I just crushed it's brain with a second stick while I did say that so very instinctively. Probably God didn't want me to sin and guided my lips. RELIEF :)!
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Well one thing is for sure they seem to mutate cause in my Apt complex we have possibly a new breed. They are afraid of nothing and noone. Immune to all sprays, even my potion of ammonia, grout cleaner and bleach with Oxy powder. The one I used that on came springing at me,shed his tail and was back again the next morning. Btw he is a little bit wider than a pickapeppa bottle. Gonna try the roasted scotch bonnet peppers next.
Oh btw that bleeding heart person...fyi the can cause harm. I have the permanent bruise to prove it. Fell between my bossom, and it stuck itself for dear life my husband had to put the kitchen towel under running hot water And grabbed that butafooka off. So...
Hey! All now mi nuh hear none a unnuh with the experirnce I had I was staying at a Cabin in Negril and mi lay down pan mi back a try fi get some sleep then the damn thing start mek noise then suddenly mi hear plap inna mi chest that rass nasty crawling creeper landed, and trust me people a swear a di truth inna mi uner pant yuh know mi fly outta deh and reach the front desk mi nuh go back a dat deh room di houseman affi go fi mi things dem! who, mi go home that night so now mi and dem again, and dem stubborn yuh fuck, nuh woman naw mek mi ketch dat deh so mi waan kno ow fi get rid a dem claat, but mi kno waan kill dem still just get rid of di fuckers, dem mek mi skin crawl bad to even pictures! Mi granny seh dem wi crawl inna yuh nose so mi nuh inna dat just tell mi di realest ting ow fi get rid a dem all now mi blood a run cold just typing this shit, mi a try di spray and dem a run but minutes lata dem cum back wah fi du?
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I love this page. Cant believe I have found it. Yeah Pyro is the best. You just sneak up on them and Pyro spray them so that they are practically paralyzed, they still move after but very slowly, you can either kill them there and then or just wait and you will see the corpse in the morning Brilliant, I aint no murderer but these little bastards get everywhere, behind your pictures on the wall, the mirror, EVERYWHERE, Pyro is making a fortune out of me as soon as its nearly finished I start panicking and have to buy them two at a time. If Pyro is reading this maybe I can do an add for you and get back some money or a years free supply!
I was OK with just one resident croaker that made a trek from behind a painting on the wall out through the window every evening at dusk. But things got a bit crowded when a second one started appearing in my bedroom closet on a regular basis. Someone said the lizards can be kept away using moth balls, so I scattered some in every corner and crevice - but that has not worked. I am allergic to insect sprays like Pyro, and I don't have the guts to clobber the lizards to death or use the boiling water. Any other ideas?
I just had an experience killing one which would come through the hole behind the AC every night. I have been trying to deal with this sucker for months, sprays, bleach you name it. Nothing keeps it away, they are stubborn and fearless and very territorial, the only way is to kill it. I actually chased this one away today, it came back and jumped at me a few minutes later! You need to spray it and as previously mentioned, you then haveto slap it with a broom once it's down on the floor and weakend by the spray. (I actually even tried throwing salt on it too).
mi nuh tink anybaddy hate dem like me. I just got phone with a couple pest control ppl. Dem a mek mi know seh dem cyaan do nothing bout dem bcuz nuh spray nuh invent yet fi kill them and keep dem wey. I told the lady to take my name and put me on that waiting list fi when it come out. Cuz trus mi, it cud be a million dollar, mi a find it somehow fi buy it. One keep mi up till 4 this morning till him decide seh him ready fi crawl out go bout him business and now mi a buck a de ppl dem workplace.
Omg! Thank u Lord, there are more of you. Ppl are always laughing at me! I have a RAID spray but even that is a challenge because I won't go near AND I can't deal with the aftermath if I haven't got them square in the face! My toes curl, my heart races...ughhh! I closed my room door & moved into the 2nd room for a MONTH after a spray exercise. He prob suffocated to death but I still haven't found the body. *sigh* Solution SOOn plz someone, ANYone..lol
i have a bad lizard problem on my porch and i am extremely afraid of those things.. the raid works really good because it ruins their skin making them die a painful death, and i think that their mating season just ended so after i kill one the baby ones disappear i guess they learn early,but i want them to be permanently gone, i saw something about some kind of net that can be used, and i think i will try that out.and i dont think that the boiling water is a good idea because what are you gonna do with the lizard while the water boils, i think that is a stupid technique.
Thats so sad, how mean are you y dont u just pick them up and put them outside!!!!! i think it is cruel to kill them with fly spray, it maks them have to suffer it would be a better idea to just kill them quickly like... well i don't have any idea how to kill them quickly cause i don't kill animals but u don't have to kill them at all.
All you idiots asking why we want to get rid of these despicable creatures - because they CRAP up your house, and leave long streaks of urine on the wall, that's why.
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