Geckos in Lanai
 

We enclosed our Lanai last year and now have a problem with Geckos. I don't mind the little critters, but they are getting on our new furniture and leaving droppings.
Anyone have a solution for keeping them out? They can get in the tiniest of openings. I have tried a spray called Toodaloo which they didn't like but now they seem to have gotten used to :it. I don't want to kill them but also don't want them to consider our Lanai their home.

Do you have a pest control service?

Anole poop won't hurt you. Let them have their fun.

The cat removes all of them from the lanai. Unfortunately, she moves them into the house.

yes but Massey doesn't treat for them

pretty sure it isn't that...
 

they're afraid of the droppings, but the fact that it looks like crap.

Leave the little things be, they cause no harm and eat the bugs that manage to get in. The only problem I have is that one of them keeps trying to sell me insurance?

Confession. When we first moved in, I thought we had trapped one on our linai through the door and was putting out water for it. Truly foolish. It was not one and they come and go. We've leaned to like them. They hunt insects. They are feeding on something. You will not be able to paper train them. Get them to speak. You can claim that you've trained them to walk up glass.

For what it's worth, we have Florida Pest Control since November 2020. We bought the house in October and put up with snails, roaches, ants and assorted reptiles for the first few weeks, not only in the lanai but garage and kitchen as well. Squirrels using our roof for a racetrack. In the month after Massey's first visit the visitors decreased drastically; a few dead and dying roaches in the garage, ants just about gone, etc. Beginning the month after that--nothing. No bugs of any kind. We still get about a lizard a month in the lanai (probably get in from the sidewalk as you can't treat a sidewalk) but they're harmless and usually leave after they find out there are no bugs to eat (if the cat doesn't get them first).

Florida Pest Control is pretty spendy but well worth it. They say what they say they're going to do and back it up. Example: I was out mowing the lawn one day in July and gradually discovered that I was not alone; there were several wasps hanging around. I called Florida Pest Control and a tech was out within two hours, located the nest in the hedge and took care of it, then checked all the other bushes in my yard for more. This is ordinarily (as I recall) a $100 service call, still well worth it but because I have a full-service contract with Florida Pest Control, it was free.

Great tech, too. She's a lifetime Floridian and as I'm a transplant from the Minnesota tundra I took the opportunity to engage her in conversation. We chatted for maybe 20 minutes and I learned a lot in that 20 minutes about various Florida flora and fauna.

If your lanai is enclosed you should not have holes for them to get in. The installer must of missed on some caulking. Just look around and fill in the holes to keep them out.

IF your home is vinyl sided, the anoles get under the siding and into the lanai area. You can put something under the siding near the frame/screen to block their path. Not perfect but it will help. Don't use that blow up insulation or anything that needs glued.

it can be easily swept away, then mopped. i always wash the mop head after each use, so no big deal really.

We have very few anoles that come into the lanai, they can come in at the top and bottom of the track. I blow lives ones out gently and vacuum the dead ones up. Spray for bugs outside. But what works most of the time is if they climb the screen I open the lanai sliding door and throw a glass of water at them. They can hear and I use sound, I shoo them off and clap at the same time. The guys are territorial so the same ones come back mostly, and after a week of training when they see me even just open the inside door, they take off.

anoles in lanai
 

they can come in if you have purchased any new flowers or plants and placed them in your lanai...sadly, come with the territory. A few years ago, my dog would catch and eat them, when I asked the vet about it, she said "just don't let them eat too many".
And as with so many things, they were here first and we have to learn to adapt.

Ewww ..... lovely. They eat bugs, dogs eat meat. Poop is poop and having it around ain't no good no how! ;)