6 easy tricks to keep lizards away from your apartment

Lizards may help control insects, but most people don’t want them crawling across kitchen walls or hiding behind curtains at home. During hotter months and humid weather, lizards often enter Indian apartments searching for food, water and cooler corners. The good news is that a few simple habits can make your home far less attractive to them. Here are 6 easy and practical ways to keep lizards away from apartments without making things complicated.

Most people try sprays first, but the real problem often starts with insects gathering near bright lights at night. And where insects go, lizards follow.

If your balcony or kitchen window light stays on for hours, it becomes an easy hunting spot for lizards. Switching off unnecessary lights or using dimmer warm lights at night can reduce insects and naturally keep lizards away.

This old home trick is still popular in many Indian households. Lizards dislike strong smells, especially around tight corners and windows.

Placing onion or garlic peels near kitchen shelves, sink areas, window edges or behind dustbins may help discourage them from entering those spots frequently. Replacing the peels every few days works best.

Tiny food crumbs attract ants and insects, which eventually attract lizards too.

Keeping kitchen counters clean, wiping dining tables before sleeping and sealing snack packets properly can reduce the insect activity that brings lizards indoors in the first place.

Lizards often enter apartments through surprisingly tiny spaces near exhaust fans, windows, AC pipe openings or bathroom vents.

Using simple mesh covers, gap fillers or door stoppers can block their easy entry points. This is especially useful during monsoon months when insects increase indoors.

The space behind refrigerators, washing machines and microwave stands is usually warm, dark and rarely cleaned — exactly the kind of place lizards like to hide.

Cleaning these hidden areas regularly removes insects, spider webs and dust buildup that attract them over time.

Many Indian homes still use naphthalene balls inside storage corners, under sinks or near shoe racks because of their strong smell.

While they may help discourage lizards in some areas, they should be kept away from children, pets and food storage spaces. Using them carefully in closed corners works better than scattering them everywhere.


(Disclaimer: This story is for educational purposes alone.)