Can I enlighten you - not because I am a scientist but because of the other part of me, the idiot. I picked up some gecko poo from the dining table soon after arriving here - I thought it was chocolate or something which had come off my plate - and ate it. The taste was somewhere between a fine truffle and caviar. I jest ... it was foul. BUT, and here is the thing .... the last time I checked, I was still alive! Is that what people on this Forum often refer to as a 'Happy Ending'?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baygon Baygon products contain the pyrethroids cyfluthrin, transfluthrin, prallethrin and the carbamate propoxur and organophosphorus chlorpyrifos, as active ingredients. In the concentrations used in consumer product insecticides, pyrethroids may also have insect repellent properties and are generally harmless to human beings in low doses but can harm sensitive individuals. If ingested in sufficient quantities, they can lead to a variety of ill effects, including tremors, dyspnea, and paralysis. The active "biocide" ingredient in Baygon, Prallethrin, while considered effective as a mosquito repellent, has been flagged by the WHO and in other studies, as "highly toxic" to honeybees and fish. I highlighted "but can harm sensitive individuals" as some here might be like me and cry when watching 'Bambi'.
Well............you know you have done about everything in life when you start nibbling assorted Hershy's.
i like tikis in the house, they keep the insect population down and provide entertainment for me. they've learned to come when i call out tiki tiki tiki like you would call a cat. some hang out on the stovetop under the grates and wait for me to feed them small bits of ground meat on my fingertip, they're not afraid of a cooking vessels placed over him or the piezoelectric igniter or the burner flame. they'll try to snitch bits of food when i'm prepping dinner or take a sip of my evening cocktail. i wasn't watching once and found a tiki tail poking out of my kaluá drink; guess he had too much to drink. there's several that follow me from the kitchen to my desk and stalk me for food. one tiki hangs out under my keyboard and comes out for bits of tiki snacks that i put on a spoon for it. it also, licks the condensation on a cup. the tukos knock things over and are too big to be indoor pets. it's more fun in the fils...
Our cats seem to keep the inside lizard population well in check, Have screens on doors and windows so they are not a big problem. Toko lives in the dirty kitchen, stays there,, calls at night time doesn't cause me a problem, have another in native garden house. Saw one of our cats the other day confront a small monitor type lizard in the garden, this one had attitude, but has since gone. Have mosquito zapper on 24hrs. Managing ok!
