I think you are right the larger ones are too big and fast for them to bother with.
And the whole time, that fucker is flapping his shiny brown wings and probably thinking “Wheeeeeeee!”
Itravelled on a Royal Naval ship that had got infested apparently in the the far east and that inspite of all efforts to wipe the little bastards out were living the life of Riley.
It sounds gross but we actually got used to them ,they used to show a film most nights in the ships dining hall and as soon as the lights were killed you’d see “cocky” shadows wandering up and down the walls .
It wasn’t unusual to find a cocky wandering across your food even when the lights were on ,but those brave souls who asked to have their food replaced were told basically to fuck off by the cooks (or "Chefs"as the navy insisted on calling their slop jockeys),so it was a case of being fastidious and starving or getting on with it.
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Yep, the geckos had already established territories in our new condo, staking out bug-catching claims around every porch light. It was my first encounter with them and I was vividly reminded of Gerald Durrell’s account of his ceiling gecko Geronimo and its encounter with a large praying mantis. And what’s not to like about geckos? They’re cute and useful!QUOTE]
AND, they can lower your car insurance rates!
But seriously, I had not completely wiped up some frut juice that I had spilled on the kitchen floor the other day so when I turned on the light the next morning, there was a pair of 2-inchers feeding. They scrambled as I reached for the bug bomb and one scrambled right under where I put my (shod) foot down. I zapped the other one. I must get some boric acid.
But the record goes to the 5-inch-long ones I saw disappearing down the little hole in the sewer manhole cover on the docks in Valletta, Malta, (that’s in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea southwest of Sicily, for you non-geography majors) when I was returning to my navy ship from a day on the beach.
I guess it depends on how big the suckers are, the ones I saw at Koh Kood where pretty big, well over a foot long and they chomped in rather large insects.
Those winged bugs on the video showed up at night in swarms of biblical proportions, I swear there where thick clouds of them everywhere; it made dinner a complicate affair.
at least they weren’t Whip spiders