Sometimes, for many months, you will have peace at home. That is, no lizards having a party at home. No clicking sound from them when you are resting. But, there will be a week or so when these geckos will come visit your home and make their stay obvious.

So far, I have not discovered their eggs but I am sure they are somewhere. They will also leave behind their white-black feces on the walls. My only recourse is to get rid of them - as quickly as I can. At least for that moment.

This is where I deploy, by far the most effective trap, the COCKROACH trap! This trap is being sold at DAISO. I sort of accidentally discovered its "true purpose" when I tried to use it as a precautionary routine pest control for cockroaches.  It is easy to use, and you just discard the trap once it is full!

Here is a picture of what this trap (below) can do. I hope it is not too gory. The two lizards are still alive, as at the point of this post. The smaller one had been there for more than a week.

Here is a tip. Try to determine the travelling path of the lizards. You can do this by the presence of their feces or if you happen to see one scurrying along somewhere. Just take note of their line of travel and place the cockroach trap in the middle of that path. I noticed that the lizards tend to scurry from point to point, being furtive reptiles. Because they are rather fast, most of them would have gotten into the 1/3 or half of the trap before they realised they were trapped. They also like to climb and cross an obstacle (which obscure their front view). This was what happened to the lizard that was in this picture. When you fixed up the trap, you will understand what I mean.

Now, place the trap (with two pieces of 10mm x 10mm thick double-sided tape) on that path - which most likely would be the wall.

If you plan to maximise the capturing process, leave the trap for at least a month. Most likely you will catch all the neighbouring lizards coming over to your home for a visit, and a few resident lizards as well.

My sister-in-law sent this to me via Whatsapp. What a unique situation for this lizard. But, just how could a house lizard be trapped in this manner?

Let's read this bit of information from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_flytrap]

"It catches its prey—chiefly insects and arachnids—with a trapping structure formed by the terminal portion of each of the plant's leaves, which is triggered by tiny hairs on their inner surfaces. When an insect or spider crawling along the leaves contacts a hair, the trap prepares to close, snapping shut only if another contact occurs within approximately twenty seconds of the first strike. Triggers may occur if one-tenth of the insect is within contact.^[4] The requirement of redundant triggering in this mechanism serves as a safeguard against wasting energy by trapping objects with no nutritional value, and the plant will only begin digestion after five more stimuli to ensure it has caught a live bug worthy of consumption."

So we got it now. It was a slow-mo lizard taking its time doing something THERE and eventually the Venus flytrap had all the data-signals it needed and decided that it should clamp down on this worthy prey.

Well, how did it go and what happened to the lizard, eventually? It seemed that my sister-in-law was a bit squeamish about letting a lizard stay half-digested and who knows, attract flies, beside emitting horrid smell when it gets damp.

She pulled it out shortly after capturing this shot.