16 Easy and Efficient Home Remedies to Get Rid of Lizards Infestation

How much do you hate it when you turn on the light and see a lizard smirking at you from the wall? Honestly, they do walk around like they own the place! If you are looking for remedies to get rid of those slithery pests, look no further. Here is a list of home remedies to keep lizards away, that you can use with confidence. Sure, there are lizard repellents in stores – but they are full of harmful chemicals.

They are a big no-no especially if you have small children and pets in the house. Wondering how to kill lizards and make your home creep-free? Without further delay, choose one of these superb home remedies from the following list and bid farewell to lizards from the house permanently!

What are the reasons behind lizards frequenting your house?

·         If there are a lot of small insects or bugs, which are food to lizards, in your house, you will have a lizard infestation.

·         If you have a dirty kitchen, with unwashed dishes and food crumbs everywhere, the filth will attract insects, which in turn will lure in the lizards.

·         Lizards stay in dark places, like behind wardrobes, cupboards, furniture, etc. If you don’t air and clean the dark places, lizards will have a place in your house.

16 easy home remedies to keep away or kill lizards

1. Egg Shells

You may have heard of this from your granny and aunts. This is one of the most foolproof ways of keeping away lizards from your premises. Lizards are repelled by the smell of eggs. After you use eggs, keep the shells and strew them around the house, especially near doors and windows.

2. Coffee Powder

This is a very effective method to kill lizards. Make your own lizard death-balls by combining coffee powder and tobacco powder and rolling them into small balls. Stick them on toothpicks or matchsticks and leave them around the house – especially behind shelves and cupboards where they hide. Lizards will die when they eat these balls. Just dispose the bodies carefully!

3. Garlic

This flavorful vegetable is appealing to us human beings, but lizards hate the smell. Just hang garlic around the house or keep cloves of garlic near doors and windows to keep away the pests. You can also make a spray using garlic juice and water and spray it around the house.

4. Pepper Spray

Yes, pepper sprays aren’t just for creeps – you can shock the lizards with these homemade sprays!  What’s more these are homemade and easy to make – no harmful chemicals at all! Just mix water, ground black pepper and chili powder and shake well. Pour the mixture into a spray bottle and spray the spicy water around the house. Lizards will be repelled by the spicy odor!

5. Onion

Want to know how to keep lizards away forever? Like garlics, lizards hate the pungent smell of onions as well. Hang them near doors or windows or place them in lizards’ hiding places. They will leave the house as they can’t stand the smell! Alternatively, make a mixture out of water and onion juice – spray this around the house to drive away lizards.

6. Naphthalene Balls

We know naphthalene balls are good for keeping small bedbugs and pests away from our homes. Turns out they work on lizards as well – the pungent smell repels these slithery beings. Place them in cupboards and shelves to keep lizards away from the home permanently.

7. Plypaper

This handy thing can help you trap lizards around the house easily. Stick these in the walls especially around the places where you frequently see lizards – like corners of the walls, near light sources, etc. They will get stuck to the flypaper, and then you can get rid of them.

8. Cold Water

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Lizards are very sensitive to temperature – they become immobile when they experience a sharp temperature change. When you see a lizard on the wall, immediately splash ice cold water on it – while it stays in shock, kill it or collect it in a dust pan and throw it out of the house.

9. Tabasco Sauce

This is a variation of the pepper spray. Mix Tabasco sauce or hot sauce with water and shake it well. Store it in a spray bottle and spray it behind cupboards, shelves and wardrobes. The spicy mixture will repel the wall-crawlers and they will flee your house!

10. Bird Feathers

Birds are natural predators of lizards. Hang a few bird feathers around the house – lizards will be scared away, thinking there are birds in the area. You can even make attractive wall-hangings with the bird feathers for an added plus! A Bird feather is effectual remedy to get rid of house lizards.

11. House Cat

If you already have a pet cat, then you are in for a win – not only do cats love to catch rats, they also like to nab a few lizards! If you don’t have a cat, you can consider getting one – they will catch you some lizards and are also very cuddly!

12. Electric Repellent

Though this is not a home remedy, it is not harmful to human beings. There are electric lizard repellents available in shops – these emit sounds in ultrasonic frequencies which are intolerable for lizards. The creepy crawlies won’t come near your house ever, if you have this installed in your house. There is even an Android app of this on Google Play which you can download for free!

13. Mouse Trap

We all know mouse traps are a good way to get rid mice and rats – turns out they are effective against lizards as well! If you know exactly from where lizards are entering your house, you can place the mousetrap near the entryway – that’s it! You will have a dead lizard to get rid of!

14. Phenyl Tablets

We use phenyl in our bathrooms to keep them clean. You can also use them in tablet form – not only do they spread good smell in the house, they also help in driving away lizards. Keep some of these tablets around the house to repel lizards.

15. Cardboard Box Method

If you are against killing or harming insects and reptiles, this is the most harmless method which will be to your liking. When you spot a lizard, try to corner it and trap it inside a cardboard box and cover it with the lid. Throw away the lizard outside the house.

16. Indirect Method

As you hunt for the answer to your perennial question – ‘how to remove lizard from home permanently’, don’t forget the simplest indirect method. Since lizards enter your house to find prey, it is logical to kill the prey first to prevent the predators from entering your house at all. You can use various methods to get rid of small insects around the house, and the number of lizards around the house will automatically become less.

How to keep them from entering the house –

·         Lizards enter your home through small apertures around the house. So seal up these openings using sealants and prevent them entering at all.

·         Use window screens to prevent them from your home through windows.

·         Keep egg shells around the house permanently to prevent further infestation. Just change them every 3 or 4 weeks.

·         Alternatively keep one variation of an anti-lizard spray handy and spray it around the house every week to keep your house lizard-free.

·         In order to cut the food source of lizards in your house, you can install an UV insect trap to kill insects and bugs.

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