> From: "Barbie Heid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 09:56:09 -0400
>
> A young man woke up from sleeping one morning and had received some kind of
> bite during the night, and his leg was very swollen.
>
> Sounds like a spider bite. I have enough problems with my landlord keeping
> herps, don't let her hear geckos are venomous! :)
A couple of years ago a list member in Arizona or New Mexico posted that
he was moving house, and found a lot of H.turcicus eggshells in his garage,
and no black widow spiders, vs. lots of black widows and no gecko eggshells
when he had moved in. Whether the geckos were eating the spiders or just
outcompeting them for bugs, it looks like they are a win to have around
if you live in an area with dangerous spiders.
Btw, in many countries around the Mediterranean, people believe that
geckos are venomous. The genus Tarentola got its name from the word
for tarantula in the language of one of these countries. People have
a lot of incorrect and even bizarre ideas, even about things they see
every day.
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