We used to welcome lizards in the house. They used to keep the bugs down. We had one in the living room window(actually I believe a chameleon). After 3 years in the window we never saw him again. I called him Charlie! had a snake in the back yard and it had babies (called it Hazel). Never hurt anybody just hung around my Dh's container garded and kept the birds away. Yardguy mowed over her! I would've like to mowed over him. After he did that the bird ruined the garden and we ended up with an infestation of rodents. Woke up in middle of night with palmetto bug crawling on my hand, through that b****** against the wall and it woke my DH up. Saw it in the morning belly up. Have yet to have any scorpions and we live in south Texas. I miss Charlie and Hazel! Now though we are having a H******time with wolf spiders! had one in my washer one day!