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Negative impact of lizards Anonymous
I live in a suburban area of my city in northern California.

We have lizards in our neighborhood and they seem to be doing a good job eating most of the insects that are around. The only proof I have of that is I hardly ever see any insects around at all. That's all I can say, since I don't follow lizards around all day. I just don't see insects very often.

These lizards are small, they're only 4-5inches at the very most. I greatly prefer these lizards to insects. They stay out of the way, they aren't creepy to look at, and I have never seen a lizard in our home. They seem to be the perfect things to have around to keep the insect population low. With lizards, I don't need to constantly spray insect-poison.

I've been pondering the idea of keeping a good lizard population wherever I live in the future. So, if in the near future I moved away to a place with no lizards at all, maybe I could buy maybe 20-30 lizards from a pet store and just release them into my yard. My hopes are that they just live like they do at my current home.

So, the question I wanted to ask, what is the possible negative impact of having these lizards around? or even, introducing lizards to an environment?
>> Anonymous
Think of it this way, Winter = Negative impact on lizards
>> Anonymous
The fuckers won't shut up about how cheap their insurance is supposed to be
>> Anonymous
Releasing anything into the wild isn't a good idea. For lizards in particular I suppose you would worry about depleting endangered insect populations, or making insects endangered, which could in turn screw up the pollination of local plants. Other worries include crowding out local lizards (which, while not apparent, probably do exist), and the lizards becoming incredibly invasive and spreading. I wouldn't recommend doing this at all. It would be better to burn citronella in your yard when you're outside and use fly paper/ant traps/raid in your house. If you really wanted you could probably have lizards living free in your house to combat bugs, but I'm not sure about any health issues this may cause.
>> Anonymous
Also, forgot to add, you could put up bat houses in your yard to naturally combat insects, and provide a home for a native species. Win-win, and bats are cute.
>> Anonymous
Reptiles have Salmonella in their digestive tracks, just like humans have E. Coli. If you have reptiles living freely in your house, you'd better be prepared for a much higher risk of contracting Salmonella poisoning.

Depending on where you live, chances are you already have a strong insectivore population in the form of predatory mammals such as bats or small predatory birds.

Certain kinds of squirrels, mice, and rats can also be omnivorous in the right circumstances, but aren't going to get flying insects

Solution: Build or buy birdhouses.
>> Anonymous
5oo lizards or 1 owl
>> Anonymous
HOLY SHIT GEX