[gecko] Question on Gold Dust Day Gecko turning blue - To Cyndy

[Gecko]

Hi, Cyndy

That's what I tell the renters who stay in our condo -- which would you 
rather have, roaches or cute little geckos who are much more nervous 
about you than you are about them?  ;D

We have lots of the little house geckos with the big black eyes, too. 
Our plain but pretty local Hawaiian ones, plus the spotted, speckled, 
ridged, and variously colored Mediterranean ones that have started 
appearing over the last 4-5 years or so.

We often see the eggs in the female house geckos on the windows at night 
...  and frequently find eggs of all three species in our house, along 
with hatchings of all three, too. I've captured & relocated outside 2 
house gecko hatchings, 1 Mourning gecko and 5 day geckos, just this last 
week.

The funniest ones to watch are the light gray ones with the dark spots 
that arch their backs and expose their claws like Halloween cats and 
will even stand up to the much larger P. laticauda on our banana trees 
in early dusk in the race for the papaya and the meal worms!  I've had 
to stop feeding them, as the competition has gotten too fierce in the 
bananas!

Mahalo, Sherron

Cyndy wrote:
> Why would any one spray when they could have geckos instead? I loved the gex when I lived in Hawaii. We didn't have the Day geckos in 1979, the last time I was there, but the other gex were great fun. I remember one on our sliding glass door that was so small it was transparent and you could see the bugs it consumed inside it. Growing up in Hawaii is one reason I love all sorts of interesting creatures.
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> Sherron,
> They may be eating insects that have been treated with pesticides from outside your home [I hope not]. The coloration maybe a symptom of there discomfort, some of my house geckos darken when they are about to die.
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