What will kill lizards

If you are not totally sure, contact us and one of our representatives will assist you with correct identification. If you have found that you are dealing instead with a Gecko, check out our Gecko Control page. The treatment method and products will be extremely similar, but identification will be slightly different. After you have confirmed that you are dealing with lizards, you can proceed to inspection. During this phase, you will identify where the lizards are frequenting and what may be attracting them to your home.

Lizards, for the most part, are a beneficial creature to us. Lizards scurrying around your home or yard, though, can be startling and they often get indoors by accident.

Lizards that sneak their way into your home can be practically anywhere. They move quickly and like to be hidden. Common areas where you would find them are in the garage, cluttered storage areas, the kitchen, and near entrances into your home since they may quickly scurry in from an open door. Look on interior walls and ceilings as well since they also like to move over walls and even stay still for a period of time on a wall.

For lizards in your yard, Lizards are usually found around warm, humid areas where they can crawl around on rotting wood in search of bugs to eat.

You can also find them in garden areas or along exterior walls of a home. You should be looking for Lizards themselves and any entry points around the outside of your home that lizards can possibly use to gain access indoors. Lizards don't leave behind any traits to show you that they've been around, aside from possibly their own wiggling tail which can regenerate.

You could try to locate lizard droppings, which look like a small pellet with a white ball at the end. Lizards move quickly and can their little squeaks and movements can be heard as well.

Once you have pinpointed where the lizard activity is, you can proceed with treatment. When mixing and spraying insecticides, make sure you read the label carefully and have on the proper PPE personal protective equipment in the form of gloves, safety glasses, and a safety mask. When it comes to applying treatment for lizards, you will need to address the insect population to address their increased presence.

It is because of the heavy amount of insects that a lizard will be hanging around your property. By performing general pest control and significantly reducing the insect population , lizards will leave on their own without you having to harm them. To address the insects and indirectly address Lizards by getting rid of their food source , apply a yard treatment of Bifen LP Granules and a perimeter barrier treatment of Reclaim IT Insecticide.

If there is a lizard in your home or you live somewhere lizards are a recurring problem, we suggest laying out glue traps to capture them. Bifen LP is a great granular insecticide that will kill a long list of insects for up to 90 days and can significantly reduce the presence of insects, taking away the lizard's food source. Bifen LP should be applied as both a broadcast and perimeter treatment.

To use Bifen LP, you will need a granular spreader. The typical application rate is 2. Load your spreader with the appropriate amount of Bifen LP Granules and apply around the perimeter of your structure. Next, apply it all over the yard broadcast making sure to apply in mulch areas, and in landscaping, and at the foot of ornamentals.

Finally, activate the product by watering the areas treated with Reclaim IT Insecticide. Reclaim IT is an insecticide concentrate designed to control over 70 different insect pests and it also has repellent qualities.

When applied, the product lasts up to 90 days so you wouldn't have to treat often. Reclaim IT will not only aid in activating the Bifen LP Granules, but it can also be used for barrier treatments around your home and for treating your ornamental plants. Determine how much Reclaim IT Insecticide you will need by calculating the square footage of your home perimeter and interior of the rooms you wish to treat. Mix Reclaim in a gallon handpump sprayer at a rate of 1 oz.

Fill your sprayer halfway with water, add the correct measured amount of Reclaim IT based on your calculations, then add the remaining half-gallon of water. Close the sprayer and shake to agitate the solution and ensure it is well mixed. Pump your sprayer a few times to create a low-pressure spray and you will be ready to apply. Here are a few that you can try for useful results. Balls made of coffee and tobacco mix are ideal to get rid of lizards.

You can place these balls in every corner of the house, and you may see that the lizards clear out or die. Place some naphthalene balls around your home, in every drawer, cupboard, or corner. Lizards find the pungent smell of these balls irritable and stay away.

Stir some pepper powder in water and spray it around in the house where you see lizards. They are allergic to pepper and will stay away due to irritation. Lizards love the warmth and are primarily found in warm places. A remedy to this is to splash cold water on the lizard, which hinders the mobility of the lizard when you can catch it and dispose of it. Lizards find peacocks intimidating as the latter is known to make a meal out of lizards. Hence peacock feather should keep lizards away.

Eggshells have a pungent smell that makes lizards nauseated. They also give them an impression that there is a bigger creature close-by, inducing fear. Mix one or two tablespoons of the sauce with water and fill it into a spray can. You spray this on your walls or places where you often find lizards to keep them away.

You can cut out some slices and keep them around the house or mix onion juice with water and spray it. Placing garlic cloves around the house will give out a strong smell that will help prevent lizards from coming in. You can also mix some garlic juice with water and spray it for the same effect. Flypaper is as good at catching lizards as it is at catching flies. You can quickly dispose of them later.

After you use eggs, keep the shells and strew them around the house, especially near doors and windows. This is a very effective method to kill lizards. Make your own lizard death-balls by combining coffee powder and tobacco powder and rolling them into small balls. Stick them on toothpicks or matchsticks and leave them around the house — especially behind shelves and cupboards where they hide. Lizards will die when they eat these balls.

Just dispose the bodies carefully! This flavorful vegetable is appealing to us human beings, but lizards hate the smell. Just hang garlics around the house or keep cloves of garlic near doors and windows to keep away the pests. You can also make a spray using garlic juice and water and spray it around the house.

Want to know how to keep lizards away forever? Like garlics, lizards hate the pungent smell of onions as well. Alternatively, make a mixture out of water and onion juice — spray this around the house to drive away lizards. Lizards are very sensitive to temperature — they become immobile when they experience a sharp temperature change. When you see a lizard on the wall, immediately splash ice cold water on it — while it stays in shock, kill it or collect it in a dust pan and throw it out of the house.

Mix Tabasco sauce or hot sauce with water and shake it well. Store it in a spray bottle and spray it behind cupboards, shelves and wardrobes. The spicy mixture will repel the wall-crawlers and they will flee your house! Birds are natural predators of lizards. Hang a few bird feathers around the house — lizards will be scared away, thinking there are birds in the area. You can even make attractive wall-hangings with the bird feathers for an added plus!