I read someone’s blog some time ago (forgotten who) on how he/she managed to have a lizard free room simply by placing an empty egg shell in the room. I was skeptical at first. I wondered if it involved some kind of jampi. Anyway, I told my mom about it and she placed two empty chicken egg shells at the toilet’s window where there used to be lizards all the time.
It has been two days and I have not seen any lizards around there ever since. I really wonder if this method really works. If it really does work, why are lizards afraid of chicken egg shells?
I thought for a while and came up with a possible reason. Those egg shells may look like bird’s eggs. Lizards should be afraid of birds, since I wouldn’t mind feasting on lizards if I were a bird. Therefore, lizards will run and hide when they see an egg, thinking that it could be a bird’s egg.
The eggs were only placed there for two days and this cannot be used as a strong proof that lizards are afraid of eggs. Anyway, I may try placing a few eggs at other places known to be popular lizard hangout places such as the kitchen, garage and occasionally my room. If no more lizards are seen after that, I may conclude that lizards are afraid of “empty chicken egg shells”.
Sounds like a science project to me. LOL. Have you tried or heard a similar story in the past? What are your findings?
Added: Seems like peacock feathers may scare lizards away as well. Does that strengthen my suggestion that lizards stay away because they thought that there are birds nearby?
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This is information for me! Yes u try it out then post up the result! If really work I will buy a lot of egg & put around my house! Have a nice day!
@HORNY ANG MOH
Not sure if it works though. I’ll try it out for a week or two.
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Eh’ man…the practice of keeping egg shells to ward away lizards was used since ancient days in India.
And it really works..and yeah ,I’ve observed a new, I mean a young lizard at my house (actually my house was lizard free..wonder where it came from)..and iot used to move around everywhere even on the floors..and it’s favorite spot was my bedroom tubelight where honey bees are frequent visitor and the lizard feasted on em’…2 days later, I felt perturbed and by my maid’s suggestion, put a nail there and fixed an egg shell.
Actually a lizard never dares to come near an egg shell..but this one stood beside it and was looking at it curiously..hmmm!
and a day later, I don’t find that little guy around!
Dude, Even napthalene balls work good on em’.I think they can’t stand the smell of the napthalene stuff!
All the best for your experiments.
Good Day.
Well i just moved into a new place and i see quite few big lizards(4-5 inchs long..i guess) moving around on the ceiling…..i followed the suggestion to place peacock feather, but it doesnt quite scare them because for the 1st few days i didnt see them but now they are crawling rite next to the feather.
Can some one tell me the guaranteed method?? Does the egg shell method really work….i have them crawling on the ceiling, so how and where exactly should i place the egg shell to make it work?? also is it ok to break the egg and keep the shell instead of an emptied unbroken egg?? will dat work???
Please Help!!
JC
please tell me the procedure to keep lizards away from home. my wife is very scared of lizards. she doesent go in to the rooom if she watch the lizards.
please suggest me the methods: i will try all the methods.
Hi, when we were residing in Hong Kong and Shanghai for some 13 years we hardly see any lizards. Its like they don’t exist. So my kids really freaked out when, on returning to Singapore 2 years ago, there are lizards everywhere. I live in a 2-storey terrace and there are lizards in the kitchen, backyard, garden porch….even the bedrooms. Every morning, you can find trails of their nightly visits and its very unsettling. Lizard traps do work (sometimes) but do not rid the problem. Napthelene balls (i hang them everywhere) don’t seem to work.
2 weeks ago, when visiting a friend, I stumbled on the egg shell remedy and tried it myself. The results were amazing! These very bold pests usually move around quite openly so its hardly surprising to see them in the day or at night. Now, I hardly see them. If they are in hiding, its fine with me as long as they are not in my home. But I was told I have to change the shells every few weeks or so which is fine with me as my kids love eggs.
GBU!
We had 3-4 lizards visiting our room everyday. After keeping egg shell, from past 4-5 days only one is showing up. Other 3 disappeared totally. So I guess it is lizard specific situation…. Some lizards don’t like egg shells and others are tolerant to it.
Egg shell experiment is working allright.
Before that I used to snipe them with an Airsoft M4 Carbine BB gun, but Lizards become horrible enemies if you start killing them with head shots. So I ditched the act when they started jumping on my bed, turning up in my shirt sleeves, falling on me and shit, and it was never fun removing their dead bodies, the stench of a dead lizard is awful, started giving me bad dreams.
Lizards are poisonous and I have heard people dying because of poisoning.
But the Egg shell trick is working. But I am not sure if it will work indefinitely. As i have said earlier, lizards behaviour evolves.
I conclude. Scare them off rather than try to kill them.
This is because , the egg carry’s …. i think you people know it!!