villanovacollege

[ceratosaurtalks]

Juvenile Tropical House Gecko, a pretty common invasive to find down in the Florida area. We have a lot of different invasive species of common geckos that have established themselves. Its rare to see them in daylight like this, however I did wake him up by lifting the pillow to our outdoor chairs he was sleeping under. We have so many reptiles in the immediate area, this is always why I check before I sit. From Geckos to Anoles, to even common garden snakes like Rat snakes and the occasional racer, never know what you'll find lifting up those pillows lol. Obligatory fun fact section; Despite being invasive, these fellas are super well-established and don't actually cause huge impacts to the immediate ecosystem. I know, strange, right? When people consider invasive species, they usually think about how disruptive species are and that is true! A lot of invasive species have very big, very negative impacts on the environments they are introduced to. However not *every* Single Invasive species is bad. There are some species who have been introduced in non-native environments in order to fill a role or a niche of another animal that used to live in those areas that no longer exist in said areas. And sometimes non-native species are introduced to save genetic diversity in native animals, a great example of this being our native Florida Panther and Texas Pumas. This little house gecko was released under a flower pot so he could go back to sleep in peace. There is no need to remove him from the area or the immediate population.

[dragonbleps]

Lizard lizard lizard lizard, gecko gecko 🎶

[boydyker]

roommate and I had a break-in from this little guy this morning before we released him back outside!! <3

[tyrannosaurus-trainwreck]

As you can clearly see, those teeny little claws are Too Small for fashion.

[simplyghosting]

This gecko keeps hanging out around my house and between my bad eyesight and old camera I can’t get a good read on what he is I want to LOOK dangit

[herpsandbirds]

i keep finding these tiny guys in my shower!!!! i dont mind moving them outside but im starting to wonder if its just the same dude each time.

Fl, usa

Lizard ID - FL, USA:

Hello, yes, this cute little friend is one of MANY introduced lizards in Florida. It's the Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia), family Gekkonidae. It's orginally native to Sub-Saharan Africa.

tropical house gecko, Hemidactylus mabouia Squamata: Gekkonidae (invasive.org)

Wild Herps - Tropical House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia)

[crevicedwelling]

great things about the tropics:

• no bug shortage ever

• house geckos (I like when they say ekekekeke)

• food is always good

• the fruit

• buttress roots & tangly aerial roots

• there is always an interesting smell. whether foul or floral is up to fate

• parks are planted with that fun poofy grass

• there are crabs in the trees. this is perfectly normal

• sometimes there is just a huge snail

bad things about the tropics:

• monkeys are terrifying

[juvmarchiori]

What if TMNT took place in São Paulo, Brazil instead of New York?

Welcome to my Brazilian au, I made this character sheet of Jason (Mondo Gecko) as a Tropical House Gecko.

I choose this species 'cause geckos like the leopard or the colorfull ones are illegal to have in Brasil, however, the tropical house gecko is very common in Latin America, especially Brasil

Jason has the same personality as his previous iterations, but he was an albino teenager before his mutation, who went o the state of São Paulo (he's from Rio) to watch a soccer game of his favorite team and ended up mutated

He can stick to the walls, when he gets too scared, his tail falls off

[lighthouseshepard]

its just me and the tiny tropical house gecko in the top right corner of my bedroom ceiling against the world

[dognonsense]

My original folkpunk song Train Track Diorama

its about how my bus stop was being redone so they keep skipping it now when im taking the bus home, so instead i have to take a route where i take the train tracks home.

When walking home i like to listen to folkpunk and sing as loud I want cause ill often be heading home at 1am and be like ah yes karaoke time on the train tracks.

But when its not 1am and brighr out I'll hunt for train spikes since i think they look cool. The most I collected was twenty in one day but i changed it to nineteen because i enjoy lying and think its a funner number to say. I think I have about 30 spikes total. I keep 4 spikes in my bedroom inside the diorma box that i keep random crap i find. Sometimes i take photos and draw whats there. I also pick up random thrown away toys, art supplies and bits and bobs :3

the chorus is kiss me with teeth, rip into me and take a bite, show me a fight. i like to bite :33 monch monch I'm a puppy girl i bite what can i say. I guess its kind of an exploration into my own repressed sexuality of growing up in singapore and having so much of sexuality being taboo, to the point where if i kissed ppl with teeth theyd always be like woah omg ive never kissed someone like that ur such a violent kisser and its just so weird. Repression of sexuality and all that and just outright yelling KISS ME WITH TEETH!!! and i also really like the imagery of teeth. I have a human teeth necklace and about 10 fake tooth necklaces!

I feel like I should reveal that I am stoned right now writing this. So stoned that i was meant to be grinding my weed and got 4 nugs in it before writinf this essay. And now my cat is yelling at me from outside my door. Allow me to compose myself. I was always meant to be watching ruthless lesbians on the button by film cooper on youtube. My life is so busy yall. I have to watch youtube, smoke weed, and post on tumblr ALL AT ONCE!!! I dont know how I manage it.

I forgot where I was in the song. Oh then! Look up at the ceeeeling! Greet the spiders!! Im looking up right now and there she is a cobweb with a spider above me in my bed. I'm working on having a good relationship with spiders and treating them as friends since they kill bugs.

oh but im new to spiders because in singapore our lil bug eater is a gecko! So growing up in the tropics ur little geckos live in ur house year round and eat ur bugs hide behind paintings and stuff. I was going to add a verse about how my dad tried to train a gecko in his room by killing ants for it and leaving them out and leaving bottle caps woth water out for it. My dad was not a fan of ants. It was very silly of him.

hope you enjoyed this deep dive into train track diorama with your favourite folk punk jester: Meme!!!

[p1325]

Here's the list of the mixes I used: Lana Del Rey - Video Games (Unknown Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Born to Die (Almighty Boys Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Blue Jeans (Omid 16B Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Summertime Sadness (Cedric Gervais Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - National Anthem (Reich & Bleich Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Ride (Unknown Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Dark Paradise (Parov Stelar Remix) Lana Del Rey - Young & Beautiful (Cedric Gervais Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Once Upon A Dream (Frisky Army Castle Dungeon Tribal Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - West Coast (Unknown Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Shades of Cool (Alfa State & Mystic District Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Ultraviolence (Disciples Remix) Lana Del Rey - Brooklyn Baby (La Passion 'Gecko' Remix) Lana Del Rey - Black Beauty (LEEX Tropical Mix) Lana Del Rey - High By The Beach (MBNN Remix) Lana Del Rey - Music To Watch Boys To (CORPORE Remix) Lana Del Rey - Love (DJ Amice Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Doin Time (Pink Panda Remix) Lana Del Rey, Ariana Grande, Miley Cyrus, - Don’t Call Me Angel (Fabricio SAN Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Norman Rockwell (Edson Pride Mash Club Mix) Lana Del Rey - Let Me Love You Like A Woman (Unknown House Mix) Lana Del Rey - Chemtrails Over The Country Club (House Mix) Lana Del Rey - White Dress (Vocoliine Remix) Lana Del Rey - Arcadia (Johan Modest Remix) Lana Del Rey - Yes To Heaven (Dario Xavier Club Mix)

[gecko1011010]

Yes geckos do eat dragonflies

Funny how I saw these Live before and this is the first time I actually saw them eat one that big, well usually the breed of dragonflies at my place are smaller than that one in the vid a little but yes they can eat even big ones, they're annoying at times but good free natural pest controls

I really hate those incest buzzing sounds so that's appreciated, I live in the tropical climate you see so yes I basically grew up with reptiles over here in the dry season, wet season is for amphibians and yes I had a small grass frog living in my freaking bathroom for like weeks, he kept hiding behind the washing machine, I think it left already, but yeah these little hoppers just go live in my House like it's their own place when it's the wet season, bruh and they're hard to kick out cuz they're smol so we just kinda let them do their own things in there.

I actually saw that smol grass frog staring at my black washing machine like he's contemplating what is it and his Life has gone to

We also have those skink lizards which are bigger than House geckos and they're technically our house outdoor tenants at this point cuz they live just right outside my House's outdoor yard and the House's outdoor side, Vietnamese houses are built with empty outdoor sides inside the House's territory for certain uses like putting plants there and yes they live there (My sister is actually really scared of them just like I was at her age 🤣, mainly because they're bigger than average house reptiles so automatically they're scarier)

Apparently skink lizards are yummy delicacies according to my Mom, well we do make wines out of pickled reptiles here so yeah we eat everything in Vietnam

So they're like little bug cleaners who trespass! very interesting.

But maybe I don't want them eating dragonflies. because they eat mosquitoes.

God I hate mosquitoes.

If a big lizard had come into my house when I was young, I would have been scared too lol

I might still be scared now. I have never seen a lizards with my own eyes.

[bufomancer]

I got some new buddies at the expo- 2 Hemidactylus mabouia (aka tropical house geckos) and 1 Hemidactylus platyurus (aka frilled house gecko). The mabouia are Ianthe and Coronabeth, and the platyurus is Babs.

Currently quarantining and growing out in a 20 long, but when they’re full grown I plan to move them in with my ball python. They enjoy similar habitats (house geckos are extremely adaptable in general though) and are much too small to be seen as prey by Niobe.

I have yet to see them again since putting them in their enclosure, so that’ll be fun for health checks… They blend in and are very fast.

[rhettabbotts]

Shelby my dear?? Might I offer you a Bob/Dagger Squad thought?? I ran this idea by a friend but I thought you might like it as well.

You and Bob have a little house down in Key West, Florida where you, the squad and all of your kids go when Fightertown gets to be too much. It's a little turquoise colored house with peach colored shutters, a little garden out back and a little white porch with a matching fence.

Bob often wakes early in the morning to go out and gather oranges from the tree in the backyard and the babies love when he makes a pitcher of fresh juice in the morning. Before they go to their aunt's or the homes of one of their uncles, Auggie and Patrick have been known to chase the geckos that like to sun themselves on the little walkway on the side of the house.

It's stamping around all day in sandals, the smell of the ocean and the tropical flowers. When it's time to go to the beach, Hangman has been known to teach the kids how to bodysurf while Mav and Penny help them look for sand dollars and shells. It's building sand castles all day long while the grown ups play "dogfight football". Sometimes Rooster will lift the littlest ones onto his shoulders the same way he did to Bob.

At sunset when it's time to head home, Bob will carry your two littlest ones back to the house, everyone tanned or sunburned out of their minds. Dinner is freshly caught fish, slathered with blackening spices and lemon juice before Payback throws it on the grill. Mickey often hauls out his guitar to play music, but if Coyote's making drinks, they'll throw on the Jimmy Buffet playlist so there's always music playing.

When the kids are all tired and the rest of the Daggers don't wanna carry them back to their own houses, they'll make a spot for all of them in the bedroom in the back of the house and let them sleep there, keeping the screened in windows open so everyone can listen to the peepers, the ocean or the rain when it falls. It's a beautiful little place all your own and you wouldn't trade it for the world.

oh this is so soft :,) i can just imagine everyone packing up and heading down when they all have time off!!! and the little ones love it so much too! i love love LOVE this idea my love thank you for sending it in i will be daydreaming about vacation bob all day now <3

[arb0k]

been working on a tropical terrarium build using the great stuff foam method, eventually hoping to house some mourning geckos, and i've been having so much fun! wild how much my brain enjoys being thorough at repetitive tasks. i don't really enjoy traditional artsy things, my friends host mini painting parties and i just don't get it, i mostly find it stressful and frustrating - something about trying to mentally compromise between what i want it to look like and what i think is within my skill level, or something? idk. but if you gave me an entire table and a can of black paint and told me to make the table black now i'd be perfectly content for hours making sure i got all of it

anyway i'm now up to my elbows in dirt and very pleased with myself. it's good for the soul i think

[silvereyedzoroark]

Scooby Doom: Hydetoad

Okay villain from episode 18 Ghost of Mr. Hyde, is now Hydetoad!

Dex: Hydetoad created by Dr. Jekyll, an alternate evolution for Palpitoad, its a Water/Dark type with the ability Suction Cups.

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This was another adventure in trying to redesign, originally was going to make him into an Inteleon, as the villain could climb walls, and my first thought was lizards as I live in the tropic's and we have house geckos.

Inteleon version would easily be able to sneak around and hide in the backseat of the mystery van without notice, but the design just didn't look/feal right, so I tried to make him a Greninja.

Because frogs can also scale walls with their sticky feet, but also a nod to Ghost of Hyde threatening to turn Shaggy into a frog, or at least going to make him 'croak' but that design didn't look right either.

So looking at what frog Pokemon were left, I was stuck with Seismitoad or Politoed as you can see Seismitoad won.

While I had wanted Hyde to be a Pokemon that could stealthily move around and get into places, something about the chunky Seismitoad body just seemed to work better to me with the design.