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gecko!

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

I found a gecko in our bedroom tonight. I don't know what that says for the state of the insect population in our home (we also have spiders), but it was actually quite a challenge getting the little fellow out again.

The trick, it seems, was to use a drinking cup and a piece of cardboard. I got the cup over the poor little thing, then slid the cardboard in beneath it. As the thing was on a carpet when I caught it, this was a bit tricky. I hope the thing is out there somewhere, ravenously consuming insects.

I actually wouldn't mind sharing a home with a gecko. In Fiji, where they're essentially a dominant species, they were fun to watch. All they seemed to do was eat bugs, squabble playfully and make little geckos.