Like a moth to the flame, and just as gross: lizards and my A/C unit

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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***PTWING!!!

PTANG!!!

CLANG-ANG-ANG-ANG-ANG!!!***
Three more lizards just bit the dust this morning. They like to crawl into my outdoor A/C unit, and every once in a while, one will either venture too close to the blades, or just plain fall in through the grating. A loud

*KUH-THUNKKK!!! *

(like just now - four) and my supply of living cat toys has lessened. I don’t even want to open the unit and see the little mangled body parts, or worse, like when one leg came flying out and hit me in the chest while I was weeding around the unit. Certainly had a bit of velocity on that one. Ick.

And yes, I can hear it happen while I’m in the house. The unit is just outside the living room wall, and the condo walls are thin.

My A/C unit is the perfect Darwinian machine - there will be fewer unsure-footed lizards to pass their genes to future generations (“Hey Fred, if you can walk across the Grate of Spinning Death[sup]TM[/sup], you’ll be in the secret club!” “Dah, okay, here I gooooo-wahhhhhhhhh!” [CLUNK!] “EWWWW! That musta smarted. Hey Jim, if you can walk across the Grate of Spinning Death[sup]TM[/sup]…”)

If only they didn’t make such a mess.

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Where exactly do you live again, so I can avoid it?

Ugh, lizard parts. Another reason to love the North.

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Awww…poor little fellers (me likes lizards). :frowning:

Perhaps some mesh screening over the top of the unit would take care of the problem?

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Central Florida.

Mesh is not really possible - too many other grate openings on the sides and top where they can crawl in, and I’d have to cover the entire unit possible creating a heat build-up and fire hazard. And they’d prolly find their way in anyways. Yes, I do like lizards, also - they eat the ants that live in the yard.

It’s more the unexpected TINGTINGTINGTINGTING!!! that gets me, since the yard is full of lizards and the unit is not putting too much of a dent in the population. As long as the population is not putting a dent in my unit.

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That’s a new one to me, add it to the list of:

Cockroaches nesting in an office Clock Radio
Dead mouse stuck in an TI dot matrix printer - The stench permeating the room was enhanced my the cooling fan.
(At work mind you - Don’t keep enough food at home to sustain vermin)

But alas, no cool PTANG!!! CLANG-ANG-ANG-ANG-ANG!!! KUH-THUNKKK!!! noises.