🦎 Common House Gecko
The Common House Gecko is a small lizard often seen on walls and ceilings inside homes, especially in warm climates like South Asia.
🔍 Key features
- Size: about 7–15 cm (including tail)
- Color: light brown, gray, or slightly translucent
- Sticky toe pads → can climb walls and glass easily
- Big eyes with no eyelids (they lick them clean!)
🏠 Why they come into homes
- Attracted to light (because insects gather there)
- Looking for food (mosquitoes, flies, ants)
- Warm, safe hiding places
🍽️ What they eat
- Mosquitoes 🦟
- Flies
- Small insects
👉 They are actually helpful because they reduce pests in your home.
⚠️ Are they dangerous?
- ❌ Not poisonous
- ❌ Don’t bite humans (very rare)
- ⚠️ Can leave droppings, which are unhygienic
🚫 How to keep them away
- Turn off unnecessary lights at night
- Use window screens
- Keep walls and corners clean
- Seal cracks and gaps
- Natural repellents: garlic, onion, or naphthalene (with caution)
🧠 Interesting facts
- Can drop their tail to escape predators
- Tail grows back later
- Mostly active at night (nocturnal)
👍 Bottom line
Common house geckos are harmless and even beneficial, but you can manage them if they become annoying.
If you want, I can tell you:
- 🦎 Fast ways to remove them safely
- 🚫 Strong home remedies to keep them away permanently
- ⚠️ What their droppings look like (to identify them)
