MySheen

What are the natural enemies of geckos?

Published: 2024-11-05 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/05, What are the natural enemies of geckos?

Gecko is a reptilian scaly lizard suborder, which is distributed in warm areas, jungles and deserts, and even can be found in places with canopy holes in tropical and subtropical countries all over the world. the natural enemies are mainly scorpions, frogs, snakes and centipedes. Let's take a look at these natural enemies of the gecko.

Scorpion

Scorpions are arachnoid scorpions. The earliest scorpions on land appeared in the Silurian period about 430 million years ago. They are completely carnivorous. They live in slopes where flaky rock is mixed with soil, where the vegetation is sparse, and mainly prey on invertebrates such as spiders, crickets, small centipedes, larvae of many insects and nymphs and even small geckos.

Frog

Frogs belong to amphibians of the family Anura. Most of them live in tropical and temperate rainy areas, and few species are distributed in cold zones. wild conditions mainly prey on flies, mosquitoes, locusts, mole crickets, green insects, earthworms, etc., and also prey on small geckos.

Snake

Snake is a general term for degenerative reptiles, belonging to the reptile suborder Lepidoptera. All snakes are carnivores, some are poisonous, but most are non-toxic, and they are real terrestrial vertebrates. According to different species, eating habits are also different. Golden serpent eating rats, some arboreal snakes like to eat lizards, birds, aquatic snakes eat fish, blunt snakes like to eat mollusks, oblique snakes like to eat frogs. King Cobra and Golden Ring Snake eat other snakes.

centipede

Centipedes are terrestrial arthropods, also known as Tianlong, hundred-legged worms and less spiny centipedes. Common centipedes have red heads, green heads and blackheads. They are carnivorous animals with a wide range of recipes, especially like preying on all kinds of insects, such as green insects, spiders, cockroaches, etc., and also prey on geckos and small snakes.

 
0