Gecko with eggs

A house gecko on a window with eggs visible

I saw this house gecko on the outside of the bathroom window one night and took a couple of photos. Nothing remarkable about that. True, the gecko is securely attached to a slick vertical surface with those magic feet it has. And yes, the window could use a clean!

But look at the belly of the beast and there are pale, round shapes. Those are gecko eggs. They usually lay one or two eggs at a time and they can be anywhere. I’ve found them in light fixtures, window frames, cupboards. The list is endless. Any place that appears dark and quiet is a likely depository.

Many get broken or eaten or otherwise destroyed, but the supply of geckos is not running out. The hatching time for the eggs depends on the species of gecko, generally running from one to three months. Baby geckos are tiny, looking like there’s no room for internal organs.

In this house, they scamper around for no apparent purpose and I rarely see them catch anything to eat. One thing they learn very quickly if they’re to survive, is that they had better watch out for larger geckos because big geckos will eat little geckos like snack crackers!

8 thoughts on “Gecko with eggs”

  1. kzmcb's avatarkzmcb

    That is so interesting, Graham. All of it, from start to finish. While I might think it was exciting to find gecko eggs around the house, I can see that it might be a bit wearing. Very cool post.

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    1. Graham's avatarGraham Post author

      I like getting these kind of window views. What I’d really like is to get good close-ups of their amazing feet, but I’m not sure my camera is up to that.

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