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We have a resident population of Mediterranean house geckos (*Hemidactylus turcicus*), which are very common around here. The good news is they eat insects. The bad news is they die and provide food for insects. They also occasionally get caught in the sticky traps, which I really feel bad about. In certain parts of our stacks, when the lights are off, you can sometimes hear the geckos chirp. Alan *Alan P. Van Dyke* Preservation Technician Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Drawer 7219 Austin, TX 78713-7219 P: 512-232-4614 www.hrc.utexas.edu On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Nicholas Moray Williams < nicholas.willi...@ethoikos.it> wrote: > > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Hi Ann, > It’s a small lizard, most likely a lacertid. I find a few wall lizards > indoors > every year in early spring before > it gets warm outside. I suppose some of them wake from hibernation early > and > enter buildings in search of invertebrate prey and warmth. I don’t think > they do > any damage and will leave again if they are able to. They sometimes end up > in > our glue traps, which is a great pity. Their carcasses may attract > dermestid > beetles however. > Nicholas > > Nicholas Moray Williams > Biologist & collection curator > Fondazione Ethoikos > Convento dell'Osservanza > I-53030 Radicondoli (SI) > Italy > > Corbaiola Etho-Ecological Field Station > Tel. ++39 0577 793055 > www.ethoikos.it > www.ethoikos.myspecies.info > > > Il 7 marzo 2017 alle 13.48 Ann Shaftel <annshaf...@me.com> ha scritto: > > > > > > > > This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. > > To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net > > To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > This was found on the floor of a Himalayan monastery storage room for > sacred > > art treasures. > > What is it? It is approx 3 inches in diameter. > > > > Thank you, > > Ann Shaftel > > Currently advising in Himalayan monastery > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to > > imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: > > "unsubscribe pestlist" > > Any problems email l...@zaks.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list send an email to > imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: > "unsubscribe pestlist" > Any problems email l...@zaks.com > > ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
