M Farooq wrote:
Unfortunately our local newspapers do spread non sense especially when it comes to science. ....................
Of course, when it comes to boiling something inedible it will indeed cause sickness. Simplest instance, lets take ants. If you happen to crush an ant (which we shouldn't) you will see that the liquid produces bubbles on the ground because they contain formic acid. Now formic acid can make a person blind permanently. So if God forbid, someone by sheer foolishness boils a large amount of ants in milk and drinks them - he she may fall really sick because of formic acid. So will be the case with geckos. So don't trust newspaper reports right away
Very rightly pointed out. More unfortunate is the fact that many of us start believing in such non-sense without due investigation / research. And as quoted by Farooq sb, if we boil so called non-poisonous insects like flies, ants, caterpillars, cockroaches, beatles etc etc in the milk and consume that milk, it is not going to make us any healthier I can assure you.
House lizards are not dreadful creatures by any means. They are in fact quite useful creatures which very efficiently perform the duty assigned to them in the mini-ecosystems operative in our houses / gardens . You see, every living creature has a purpose of existence. They all have a job to do and
less humans (who have a choice to take action as per their will), all of them will keep doing the job that Almighty has assigned to them, without any fail. Almighty has made it a part of their "nature / instinct" as we call it. Collectively they formulate a complicated system of interdependency which makes things happen in this world, smoothly and efficiently. Humans have been ordered in Quran to ponder upon these natural phenomenas as
in it "there are signs of wisdom for those who believe". Therefore, we must try to study these aspects and understand the reason behind them. This world has suffered a lot due of lack of understanding of these aspects on part of human beings and will perhaps keep doing so in much bigger magnitude in future. (I am talking of environmental studies as a whole and not precisely in relation to merits / demerits of house lizards).
The number of house lizards in a house will never be disproportionate to the insect population in the house (so is the case with spiders). It will never happen that there are no insects in the house but lot of lizards. When the insect population will deteriorate, they will automatically migrate to some other place or die and vice versa. Of course we should not allow lizards rather any kind of insects inside the kitchen, whatsoever, but there is a difference in kitchen and a courtyard / veranda which has many plants in the ground / pots. Those plants will attract insects, insects will attract lizards / insect eating birds etc, so on and so forth. Together they will form a mini-ecosystem and we should except it that way and try to learn from it.
Large size lizards will seldom enter houses in the cities but in suburbs or areas close to plantations, they can be there and are dangerous for pet birds / their eggs. However, unless cornered or given no other option, they will seldom attack humans.
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