I have seen significant increase in garden lizards lately.
I am quite worried as my young kids play there.
Any suggestions to get rid of them or kill them naturally?
How to Get Rid of Garden Lizards
ShazOz on 12/03/2023 - 10:58
Last edited 12/03/2023 - 12:21 by 1 other user
Last edited 12/03/2023 - 12:21 by 1 other user
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leave em alone
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Unless your children are housefly larvae then I wouldn't worry.
Oh, that's why I see so many of these lizards around my compost bins. My bin is full of BSF larvae.
why the hell would you want to kill them? they do nothing but good in your garden eating insects, they won't harm your children.
You're not being serious are you?
Actually, I think you are.
Australia's wildlife is one of the things that makes it great. Wanting to get rid of it is pathetic and childish.
I worry for our future if there's people thinking like this.
it just shows how ignorant some people of reproductive age are, i'm an immigrant and if i see a creature i am not familiar with i just look it up. I also dont assume its primary role is to be out there to "get me"
@juki: Spot on. No animal is out there to get you and it's great that you take the time to find out about our wildlife. The OP would sh 1t himself if he lived where I do - we have it all: every kind of lizard known to man, snakes (my neighbour had a Carpet Python in their lounge a few weeks ago), Bandicoots, Kangaroos, Wedge Tail Eagles, a zillion kinds of Cockatoos etc. I've had a couple of spider bites (which can hurt like buggery) but that's it!
Just go with the flow and enjoy nature and our interaction with it.
@lunchbox99: user name checks out my first reaction is yummy but well need to protect sharks, eco system and all that
@lunchbox99: Au contraire, he/she will be famous unless it's a mutant great white trying to become amphibious in which case he'll be both rich and famous.
@juki: My kids are not yet in school, but every time they see a new creature they want me to get my phone out and look up what it is. It's great to teach them to be curious.
@macrocephalic: likewise, there is this 80 year old that finds stick insects all over the place, you'd think there is a plague, i cant find a single one to show the kids
but they won't hurt anyone, if anything it is probably good, less annoying bugs around
lol, you prefer to have spiders and mosquitos bite your kids instead of having harmless lizards? sure.
Is it just skinks?
The common garden skink (Lampropholis guichenoti
Is this a troll post? Lizards (skinks in this case) are harmless. unless you have komodo dragons or giant goannas roaming your yard there’s no need to be concerned.
You should be worried about the next pest invasion that will come, when you get rid of the lizards.
It will be a fun activity to learn and teach your kids how to be safe around small animals and insectshttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-13/top-end-children-salm…
Just saying…Really though, I have 10s of them in and around the house everyday, I would never deliberately hurt them
Teach the retards not to eat literal shit off the ground. Vaccuming up their waste inside is fair enough, ain't gonna happen outside.
I am quite worried as my young kids play there.
Are you serious?
kill them naturally
No.
It's a skink. It's completely harmless. The only thing they do is eat pests insects. Why do people insist on trying to kill any little thing. Just buy a tiny apartment in a skyscraper and remove all plant and animal life.
Yup never understood these people. If you want to be away from all other living creatures, move to some concrete jungle high rise apartment complex or better yet move to a country that has all that and far less creatures than australia. One of the beauties of Australia is we still (somewhat) have a decent amount of wildlife and creatures. A lot of other countries have killed off most of theirs with their concrete jungle cities.
Are you serious? As for your kids playing with them, how do they catch them?
Maybe they eat them
!? Lizards are easy caught. I used to catch them all the time as a kid. If a child can't there's something seriously wrong with their motor skills/reflexes. They'll even eat food like mosquitos from your hand seconds after catching them. i.e. They don't need "taming."
LOL, they're good for the garden and actually help control things you don't want like cockroaches. Leave them be.
If you are really worried for the kids, you’ll need to consider boarding school in another country to keep them away from these incredibly common and harmless reptile friends.
…its the snakes id be more worried about mate!!
Any suggestions to get rid of them or kill them naturally?
Can you go to your local vet and ask that question? I want to see if they give you cyanide for your discomfort.
Possibly in suppository form.
Bloody hell. Leave them alone.
I suggest you move into a high rise unit with no garden if you don’t want any harmless nature near your children.The lizards are cute and completely harmless. They eat bugs. I would welcome more skinks and geckos around my house.
yeah i'm jealous, I'd love a blue tongue or something to come eat the mountains of snails i had this year
I don't like it when they pooped on me though
Extremely cruel and completely unnecessary
And illegal in some states.
Weep for the children of such parents. :(
Lizards are great. Leave them alone. Great for the kids to learn about and interact with. Totally harmless. If you don't like them move to a concrete jungle but expect more cockroaches and other pests.
Just watch out for the lizards with no legs in Australia as they are called snakes and some are deadly.
What about the legless lizards that look like snakes but aren't?
Do they spit a white viscous liquid.
You're confusing legless lizards with one eyed snakes I think.
You mean Blue-tongue lizards? Those things are adorable. Have one living under our deck. Our deck is free of snails and insects! Just comes out and chills on the deck with us on hot days.
Blue tongues have legs. There are actual legless lizards. Do people not know this? Google legless lizard. Not joking.
@apsilon: Yes there are but….if you look closely some have a remnant of a leg.
There are also blind snakes which is the food source for the Bandy Bandy snake.
https://media.australian.museum/media/dd/images/Anilios_nigr…
https://t3.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBeB-iDULY…
Most snakes are not at all aggressive. Actually most snakes try their best to stay away and get away from people and stay hidden. Its only if they have no other choice and are cornered or touched or look like someone is trying to get aggressive with them that they would even consider attacking.
Snakes don't attack. They defend.
This is just false. I see plenty of public servants with legs walking around.
They are skinks. Harmless. Leave them ALONE.
Yeah, it’ll take care of all the wildlife in the area!
The good news is the bull mastiffs all the housos own will take care of the cats.
We need lizards that kill cats.
Godzilla
I am quite worried as my young kids play there.
Why?
New Australian bought into ‘everything in Aussie will kill you’?
Actually you’d have to be a new Aussie to think these things were anything other than harmless. The most harm one of those has ever done to me was when it carked it in the garage and the ants moved in.
We were all 'new Australians' once. Education is what is important here.
OP please know living in harmony with nature is important to many of us. Our native fauna is under immense strain and we should avoid adding to this. Good luck.
Wasting your breath. Do you think they would come here, start this thread with an aim to eradicate local wildlife if they were endowed with the ability to learn? Their default position is a disconnect with nature.Educating the lizards would be easier, and more rewarding.
@Protractor: Thanks for this. I'm sure this approach is exactly what new migrants like to hear. The same new migrants who maintain our standard of living, keep our house prices bouyant (in normal times), creat jobs, invest and add energy to our communities. We need to educate migrants who move here and not vilify them.
@Lunarboogie: Normal times? Is that coming back?
Hardly vilification. I base the opinion, on attitudinal evidence.
I'm sure the other 90% of "said migrants" don't have a problem with the lizards. Education goes 2 ways. 'LEARNING. Had the OP decided 'that' as the default, the discussion would not be about eradication or removal. More like, 'are lizards a risk to my kids' or 'what are these things'.
I could argue that at times migration without forethought creates as many (maybe more) issues as it solves when the conditions permit.Seeing you asked, my default position is that the planet is overpopulated, by humans.
Migrants and non migrants.Almost ever existential threat is directly linked to that.You can't pluck finite resources out of anyone's crack. Migrant of otherwise. And extinction is for good.
@Protractor: The fact that they're asking for advice tells me they're open to learning…?
But after seeing some of the awful responses on this thread, including yours, I'm sure they strongly regret asking the question now.
Also, your opinions are awful.
@Sxio: Open to learning what? Ways to harm native wildlife causing no harm?
The entire internet to search how harmless they are, where to contact experts for advice(wildlife advocates,govt depts,zoos,museums etc,etc) and all they plonk is an image and request to provide a DIY wipe-out plan.
Your definition of what 'is' awful in this thread missed the entire gist of the OPs Post."I'm sure they strongly regret asking the question now." Let's hope so. Then they DID learn something
WTAF is wrong with you OP
Lizards eat the creatures that will harm your kids, leave them be.
I remember playing with these as a kid in my backyard. Was fun trying to chase them. Only caught one once, accidentally got its tail, which fell off. I felt horrible for ages and stopped chasing lizards. Good life lesson.
You know the tail drop is a defence to confuse a predator, right?
They grow back and the lizard was fine.I caught millions of these growing up in Sydney suburbs.
Oh yes I was told that right after it happened. But as a 7 year old, I found it horrible because now it couldn’t defend itself against actual predators.
Thanks for coming to save me of years of guilt though!
Actually the tail doesn't grow back fully. Some don't grow back at all. You can always tell when a skink has lost it's tail.
They can also drop their tail if they are threatened.
You can always tell when a skink has lost it's tail.
By the… um… missing tail?
@[Deactivated]: Have a look at a shingleback.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Shingleb…
@CurlCurl: I thought Shingleback was going to be a Nickleback cover band using musical instruments purchased at Aldi.
Does anyone know how to humanely end things that kill Australian native wildlife? Asking for a friend.
Kids SHOULD be playing with lizards and bugs in the backyard !
It's the rock spiders ya gotta look out for !
Oh so sanitary ! ? !
🦎🦎🦎I googled images of rock spiders. Not what I expected.
I use cream soda myself.
Chips not cutting it anymore?
Oh dear ! Hahahaha 😬
Blue or green hair… vote Greens… screech at normal people a lot for no sensible reason… love Ukraine flags (as long as they don't look up how they would treated there)…
Yeah yikes, I definitely wasn't expecting that!
Try adding rocks, terracotta roof tiles and logs around your garden. Also try and provide areas where they can bask in the sun.
Move to Tasmania.
Hey now, we have heaps here too.
In 2011 was at my previous villa backyard, cuppas on 3 piece outdoor setting with missus. Had killed a couple of flies to feed our venus plant.
Saw a skink about 1 metre to my left, it was on the ground by the fence sunning itself.Chucked a fly towards it. It went directly at it. Skink saw it coming, opened its mouth, caught it on the full and swallowed it.
Wife witnessed it and we both still marvel at it.
They are smart creatures. When i throw bread for the birds the lizards will come over and grab a piece to eat.
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Any suggestions to get rid of them or kill them naturally?
wait…..the lizards or your children?
Just leave them alone? They're harmless (To humans) and great for pest control (eg. Ants, Cockroaches, earwigs etc)
If you're paranoid about harmless garden lizards (Skinks & Drop-Tails) then I'd be curious to know to what extent these kids are being sheltered from the outside world lol
Why would you want to get rid of them? As for killing them, if you do this I hope they prosecute you.
I didn't know lizards could file a lawsuit.
I guess bees did it in this documentary I watched so shouldn't be surprisedYeah I think it's unlikely considering I was mowing when a blue tongue ran out from behind some scrap metal and under the mower. He was a goner so I drove the mower back and forth several times to put him out of his misery. I'm still walking around free.
Admin close this thread please
'No action taken'
A lot of dumb questions get asked here, but this is right up near the top.
Any suggestions to … kill them naturally?
What the actual f is wrong with you OP? You should be ashamed of yourself if this is a troll post. And if it's not, equally I feel so sorry for your children.
what garden lizard?
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