Anybody think of benevolent ways to move those geckos out? I just spent
several hours cleaning up the aforementioned hottub and storage building :-(

Oh yeah, apparently the "Friends of Animaux" aka felt
it necessary to report me for Usenet abuse to my ISP. You'd think someone
with a Ph.D would have thought first before filing a retaliatory and trumped
up report from his UT account (unless someone was spoofing his account and
in that case, my apologies).

My hottub is also blessed with invasions of those black-tailed ants
(carpenter?). They like to surprise you when you take the cover off by
building hatcheries along the top edge of the tub. Today there were
1,000,000,001 ants. I dispatched them with 409 since it is a wee bit less
poisonous than RAID (good for cockroaches too). Any ideas to prevent this
from happening? This colony wasn't there last weekend at all so I don't
think the baits would keep them out, just kill them off after they moved in.

This is gardening stuff, right? Outdoors, bugs and critters, non-poisonous
control methods?

"Jay Bird" wrote in message
igy.com...
I wuv my wittle gecko buddies. Dey is so fun to watch and pway wit.
However,
their population has increased dramatically as I have quit using general
destruction chemicals.

This would not bother me but for three things.
1. The huge amount of gecko poop and eggs that cover the inner workings of
my hottub.
2. The huge amount of gecko poop and eggs that cover everything in my
backyard storage building.
3. The potential for geckos to inadvertantly causing expensive
electrical/mechanical failure in the hottub workings and killing
themselves.

I have considered harvesting the poop (much like bat guano) and selling to
discriminating gardeners. Also under review is a gecko egg hatchery to
help
spread the wonders of geckoness.

Unfortunately, the initial capital investment is too large for me to
cover.

My wife and I both work fulltime (and then some) so the time involved in
cleaning up after them is time taken from more pleasant pursuits.

In a pre-response to the inevitable replies of "animals own this earth, so
get used to it" I would like to offer this observation:
Humans are animals, too. One of the things that makes us different is that
instead of mindlessly killing another animal that intrudes in what we
think
of as our territory we can seek a non-lethal way to dissuade the
intrusion.

Recently the dove guy was lambasted by animaux for hating doves. He had
asked for a legal way to limit the population in his yard. animaux told
him
to move away to the middle of the ocean. Yet when she discussed her own
methods of keeping cats and dillos out of her yard she was so proud of
herself.

To quote a famous book, "all animals are created equal, but some animals
are
more equal than others." This seems to apply in more ways than one.

http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~allport/c...t/notalbks.htm

Anyway, does somebody have a legal, non-lethal, earth-friendly,
politically
correct, animal sensitive, PETA approved, patriotic, etc., etc. method for
achieving a UN sanctioned peace accord and territorial division with my
wittle, hairy-toed buddies?