How to Exterminate Lizards
Most species of lizards in North America are harmless. But they can be pests when they infest your garden or your home. Unfortunately, our homes and gardens are providing plenty of the lizard's essentials. They need only insects and water to survive. Shrubs and flower beds are excellent sources for insects. Sprinkler systems provide enough water for any lizard to thrive. Cracks and crevices offer living space. Getting rid of lizards is not easy, and some efforts may not work the first time.
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Things You'll Need
- pesticide
- Cypermethrin
- lizard netting
- glue traps
- cardboard, plastic sheeting or thin metal sheets
- bulk glue
- vegetable oil
- automobile
Instructions
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Control the lizards' food source--outdoor roaches, ants and crickets-- with pesticides. Treat your home with pesticides on a regular basis. Keep insect populations down, and you will keep lizard populations down.
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Use a pesticide that comes with a device to get into cracks and crevices where insects and lizards live. The pesticide will kill the insects and irritate the lizards, so they may leave treated areas.
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Use the treatment Cypermethrin on plants and shrubbery where lizards are feeding. It has a sour taste which lizards don't like. It won't hurt the plant, it kills insects and it should drive lizards away.
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If pesticides and treatments don't work, cover plants with a fine mesh plastic called lizard netting. Lizards cannot chew through this netting. This annoyance should cause lizards to move elsewhere.
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Use insect or roach scented glue traps to catch small lizards inside the home. Place the traps along baseboards, under furniture, on countertops or any other place you have seen lizards.
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Make your own glue traps to catch larger lizards. Buy bulk glue in a pail. Cut cardboard, plastic sheeting, thin metal or any hard, non-porous material to make traps large enough to catch whatever size lizard you have seen. Spread glue on the traps and place around your home. Release trapped lizards at least one mile from your home. Pour vegetable oil on the glue to free the lizard.
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Tips & Warnings
Lizards love succulent plants. You may want to forego putting this plants in your yard. If you have a bad lizard problem, you might want to remove these plants.
If you have pets, be sure to buy a pesticide that is animal friendly.
References
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Comments
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an insect is an insect, not an animal or a plant (if that's what your referring to). You can't put an insect and a dog in the same group.
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What an AWFUL article. Why in the world would anyone ever want to poison lizards? The suggestion that someone use an insecticide to kill insects and that it "will have a bad taste that will drive the lizards away" is ridiculous!" The lizards will eat the insects and they will also die. What is a "bad lizard problem"? I've never heard of such a thing! And finally you say "Be sure to buy a pesticide that is animal friendly." Come again. Didn't you just say to poison insects? What the hell do you think an insect is, a plant? Awful, awful article. Misleading, dangerous, and enviro-harmful. md - a baffled herpetologist from Texas.
