Sheila
Nov 6th, 2007
Nov 6th, 2007
Don’t Hurt the Geckos
When you’re visiting Hawaii, there is a real good chance you’ll see a gecko, possibly in your hotel room. Don’t worry when you see them. They are harmless to us. They won’t bite us, but they do eat mosquitos, ants, and a certain bug that starts with the letter R and ends in “oach”. Hawaii legends have it that geckos are good luck, so consider them to be your new Hawaiian friends. Here’s a short video of a gecko that we filmed on Lanai.
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14 Responses to “Don’t Hurt the Geckos”
One of the first things people told us when we moved to Maui was that to have Geckos in your house was good luck. We always had a few and I grew to love the little guys, even if they did have a habit of “dropping in” while you were showering.
Once they got too big though, we’d catch them and put them outside. Now that was always a hilarious bit of fun. And one little gecko was even the inspiration for an essay I wrote called The Way Out. In fact… I think I’ll go do a blog post about it. Thanks Sheila. :o)
Hi Susan - Is your essay available online? I do think the little guys are cute, though that could be odd sharing a shower with one of them.
Hello Sheila,
Actually, the essay is posted on my website. I wasn’t sure if you’d think it rude of me to post a link to my own site, so I didn’t. But since you asked… http://www.susanflemming.com/thewayout.htm
if you love salmonella, then gecko’s are right up your alley. for those who don’t live here and so don’t really know the issues, their poop is full of it, quite literally. further, it stains everything you own. so methods of gecko removal, which i won’t mention herein, would be most appropriate. hmmm, advise from strangers.
Yes, jt it is true that all reptiles can carry salmonella and I wouldn’t have wanted to have a house that was swarming with them. That’s why we caught them and put them outside. That’s probably why I never had a problem with stains.
Thanks for the link, Susan. I will check it out.
We try to catch them and put them outside, too, but mainly because there’s a lot more for them to eat in the garden than inside the house. We just hate finding underfed, dead, dried up geckos under the beds! I do love to hear them chirping outside our window.
We live in the middle of a Hawaiian rainforest and have many geckos outside. If we find one in the house, we catch it and put it outside on a tree without our cat watching. We have found him torturing geckos before.
I’d imagine a cat would have hours of fun batting around a gecko. How do you catch them? Just with your hands? They seem very quick. Or do you trap them?
hi my name is Baylee and i visited Hawaii like 31 times and she’s right you don’t need to hurt them you need to be kind to them even though they might scare you don’t need to hurt them thanks
Baylee ^_^
Hi Baylee and thanks for stopping by to comment. Geckos are are almost too cute to hurt, don’t you think?
I have a question…do geckos make any type of clicking or chirping type noise? I believe we have one in the condo, I did see him once. Usually early morning, every so often, I hear something from what I would swear is inside. Just curious…
Kellie - yes they do make a chirping noise. Sounds like you’ve got yourself a gecko.
….and when you can’t catch them…..any ideas about how to remove their urine stains from clothing?