Advice on lizards on lanai?
 

I have a screened in lanai and most often have lizards inside the lanai. I like that they help keep down other insects down, but don't like that I can't keep sliding glass doors to the house open (when the temperatures are right) as the lizards come inside. Any suggestions on how to control for that? Want to be able to keep the sliding doors open when entertaining and using the living room and the adjoining lanai space. Thanks in advance.

Our anoles are more polite and have never come into the house. They've stopped and looked but they just haven't ventured in.

Ants, get rid of the ants and anoles will go elsewhere.
Also, with the anoles gone, so go the snakes.

Our home watch always said, Anoles own your property, you are just the renter.

We never see them inside until we do spring cleaning and move furniture around. Find one or two petrified under beds, back of closet, under the couch.

Likewise. We have tiled floors and nothing near the sliding doors that might attract them in. Do you have house-plants or similar inside that they might be keen on investigating?

We put in a sliding screen door so that we can get the breeze but keep the lizards out.

Our cats use the anoles as play toys, I can usually catch them with a tupperware or similar clear container and some thin cardboard, then a quick trip to the closest door.

I've been successful removing a couple of anoles by putting a Solo plastic cup over them and "walking" them outside through the nearest door. One anole lost part of their tail during this adventure but happily scampered away when I lifted up the cup. Another anole looked shocked when I finally got him to the outside. The next morning that little guy was a gonner and I was so upset.

I like my anoles. With butter, garlic and parsley.

Glue traps on each side of lanai screen door and on each side of sliding glass door.

They like to crawl between the door jams and jump in the house when the door opens.

Better yet find where they are getting into your lanai and plug the holes? I had them coming in an opening in my screen door threshold. When the threshold was installed they did not cut the one end flush with the door. I used HVAC duct sealant to plug the hole. I have not had an issue since. They now clean the outside of my screens not the inside.

Glue traps are barbaric. Once had a frog get caught in one. Took me an hour to get him out. Cut the glue trap away but couldn't get it off his feet. So just cut it away so it looked like he had sandals. He could hop around but couldn't climb. He probably croaked anyway

Weird...when mine lose their tails, the tails grow a new body and the other body grows a new tail. So we get 2 for 1.

We enjoy having the cute little mosquito and ant-eating critters hanging around, and our dog likes chasing them. As already pointed out, using glue traps is cruel, and should only be used if they try to sell you insurance.