Is gecko a beneficial insect or a pest?

Gecko is a kind of lizard, also known as gecko, four-legged snake, gecko, etc., distributed in southwest China and areas south of the Yangtze River Basin. It can adapt to different habitats from desert to jungle. Many kinds of geckos often come to people's homes and feed on insects. The average life span is about 5 to 10 years. Let's take a look at whether the gecko is a beneficial insect or a pest.

Is gecko a beneficial insect or a pest?

The gecko is a beneficial and harmless animal. It lurks in hidden places such as cracks, tile eaves and cupboards during the day, and comes out at night. It often appears on the walls, under the eaves or on electric poles illuminated by lights at night in summer and autumn. Its food habits are very miscellaneous, usually mainly live insects, mainly prey on mosquitoes, flies, locusts, cockroaches, hillbilly, dragonflies, moths, crickets, spiders and other insects and larvae.

Why are geckos the five poisons?

Although gecko is one of the five poisons, it has no toxicity and has been misunderstood all the time. Since ancient times, it has been spread among the people that the urine of the gecko is very poisonous, blind in the eye and deaf in the ear, and it will cause festering when dripping on the human body, and it will be poisoned to death after eating the gecko. What's more, it is said that "masturbation in the palace, love of water, and every encounter of water rutting sex, its essence is extremely toxic, and human food turns into purulent water", so in ancient times it was listed as one of the "five poisons" (scorpion, snake, centipede, gecko, toad). But in fact, except for some species that are poisonous, most geckos are not poisonous.

What kinds of geckos are there?

1. Verrucous gecko: verrucous gecko, also known as four-legged snake, often lives in forests, deserts, grasslands and residential areas, and has been included in the list of terrestrial wildlife under national protection or with important economic and scientific research value.

2. Gecko: gecko is the largest kind of gecko, mostly living in the holes of overhanging cliffs, and some of them also live in tree caves. China is distributed in Guangdong, Guangxi, Henan, Hong Kong, Fujian and Yunnan.

3. Non-webbed gecko: non-webbed gecko is endemic to China. It is not only a predator of agricultural and forestry pests, but also a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. It has the effects of tonifying lung and kidney, relieving cough and so on. It often lives in cracks, rock crevices, rocks and trees.

4. Webbed toe gecko: webbed toe gecko is distributed in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other places, and has been listed in the list of terrestrial wildlife under national protection or with important economic and scientific research value.