Lizards

During my college days, I lived off campus. The building had so many roaches it was scary. I tried everything. Bug bombs worked for about 2 days. Exterminators said that just spraying my apartment would do no any good since I was on the second floor (almost he very middle of the building) Nothing worked until I started using lizards. I kept 6 -8 lizards in my apartment at all times. It was amazing to watch them hunt down the roaches. After a while the roaches just didn't come into my apartment anymore. For four years I got a roach free apartment.

Lizards make excellent pets, but I didn't use them as pets. I know that this is cruel but once you let them go you only see them seldom, and when you do they were always on the move, behind furniture, stove, refrigerator. They are wonderful to watch. Such life and death battles on a small scale. I never saw any droppings. I know that sounds strange but I never saw any. They got all of their moisture from the roaches consumed. Occasionally when one would die I would find a completely dried out husk. No smell. No rot. Just dried out kind of like beef jerky, and much much smaller than the original.

In Louisiana we called them tree lizards, very common. They were about 4-6 inches long. Green in color. Could be found everywhere. But any Lizard will work. Stay away from the really big lizards 12 inches or more. They don't hunt really small things like roaches. The roaches can run and hide. The smaller the better.

Offered by Pat.