lizards in lanai
 

Does anyone out there have a solution to keep the lizards out of your lanai? Help!!! :dontknow:

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I can't answer your question...only state they are good for the environment. They eat worms and bugs that find their way into the lanai and ultimately the house.
They don't bother humans or animals.
We just leave em be and do their job.

BTK

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I sealed all the spaces where the frame meets the slab and roof with a clear silicone sealer. If you have a utility room next to the lanai, you must seal that room also. Also, check door seals. Hope that helps you. I don't really mind when they get in, I just don't think they could survive long. Or open the door, let them in and have an indoor lizard terrarium.

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They seem to like door frames. We find them on the lanai quite often, never have found a dead one inside. Apparently they are clever and can find their way out as well as in.
Grandkids love to catch them. We insist they release them after the catch.
Really good and beneficial little dragons.

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If you have siding, you're not going to keep them out. When I first came to TV, I was fixated with them, convinced they would get in the house and do untoward things. After checking on them, I discovered they are anoles, not geckos as I had thought, and they are really good to have around. For one thing, they eat spiders and other tiny critters. And though they seem to have free run of the lanai, they almost never enter the house (let me keep believing that). During the 3 years, I've seen one indoors and he looked totally confused. BTK is right. Leave 'em be and they'll do their job. My only complaint is that they don't eat (enough) lovebugs --- not those :edit: are a different matter.

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I have one suggestion.

Lizard Stew:
Ingredients:
one fresh lizard (not store bought)
ginger
garlic
lemon juice
salt
beer

Get out a beer. Open. Begin consuming. Clean your lizard being careful to keep the heart, liver, intestines, brain, tail, testicles, and tongue. They will be used in other recipes. Drink a beer.

Pound ginger and garlic in a spice-poundy thing. Drink another beer. Add lemon or lime juice and salt. Rub concoction all over lizard. Beer empty, good, it should be! Go get another.

Place whole lizard on low-charcoal heat making sure to turn him (or her) over several times. Maintaining constant beer drinking.

Sample bits of lizard to check quality and doneness and relieve beer munchies.

When lizard is golden brown, remove from charcoal, cut, and serve.

Suggestion: serve with lots of beer.

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It's easier to name them and consider them pets. At lest the County doesn't require them to be tagged!

My dogs think they are great to chase, as the dogs have a prey drive and nothing else to target.

Actually, I'm more nervous if I don't see any. that may mean the bugs are getting bigger than the geckos and more trouble is in the offing....

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Can't say that I've every seen a lizard on the lanai. However, my cats are out there a lot so maybe the lizards are much smarter then we think. I can hear my Lily going "here Lizard, lizard, lizard." They are cute little critters though.
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Don't know if this actually works, but a friend swears by it -- fabric softener sheets along the edges of the lanai. Apparently the anoles don't like the smell. She says she puts them down about every two weeks for a day and hasn't had an anole on the lanai since. My cats live on the lanai, truly think it's the cats' meow so to speak, so the anoles do not come in mylanai at all -- just sit where the girls can see them and go crazy wanting to play tag with the little critters.

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I have heard about Love Bugs on other posts. What, exactly, are they? :dontknow: They're not VW Beetles... ;D

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uujudy:

So far as I can tell, they're the only curse of Florida. Bugs who mate practically at birth and continue to do so. The name apparently derives from the fact that two of them copulate and remain attached until they die. They are prevalent in April/May and again in September. Harmless (don't bite, for example), but highly annoying, and everywhere.

They're very hard on automobile paint jobs. Folks advocate cleaning them off almost every day, or their remains will eat the paint away. Since my car is over 11 years old, I'm afraid that I don't worry that much.

SWR

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Thanks for the info, but.. ewwww! :'( How often do these love bugs come out? Do they get in the house? Do they get in your hair? How big are they? Do they swarm? :yikes:

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Handie, you open your mouth when they're around? You're a better man than I, Gunga Din.

Judy, yes, they swarm. Mainly on freeways -- they seem to have a thing for asphalt. I smoke on my patio so they like to flit around bugging me when it's their season. They are a yuck factor but truly harmless. By week two of them you're ready to scream but afraid a pair will accidently fly into your mouth. They really don't land much and are not big fans of hair (had long hair last year and can't remember doing the "Get it out NOW!!!" dance).

Lovebugs are my pet peeve. I don't like them. They're innocuous but I. don't. like. them. Their saving grace is they're only around for two months out of the year.

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We used some spray insulation in all the corners of our lania to block out the little creatures. Seemed to help alot!!!

Last night just before shutting out the lights in the dining room I saw a big!!! spider ---my husband hit it with a magazine and hundreds of little baby spiders spread in every direction...it was gross. We killed all the little spiders with some household cleaner. It was the grossest thing to see just before going to sleep.