Geckos are a normal resident in my cottage. Anyway, over the last few weeks there have been a lot of tiny ones around, must have just hatched. So there is one about an inch long, just a baby, that has taken up using the ceiling of my bedroom as a hunting ground. And there is a spider up there that it is out to get.
The spider is just a daddy-long-legs which I haven't bothered to sweep away. The problem for the gecko is that the spider is not on the ceiling, but on its web, suspended a couple of inches below. So the gecko can't get to the spider but it certainly knows its there. It roves back and forth just above the spider, trying to figure out how it can get to it. Once it grows a bit bigger, I'm sure it will live.
Talking about things eating bugs, I was around at my friends the other day and they have half a dozen resident tree frogs that come and sit on the window at night, drawn by the bugs which are drawn by the light from inside.
Anyway, this giant cockroach like thing blunders in and lands on the window. It's maybe 40mm long, but one of the tree frogs goes for it and manages to eat it, or at least get it into its mouth. Partway, there are still legs and things sticking out. The bug is about the size of the frogs head, and rather scaly and obviously not particularly easily eaten. Functionally it would be like you or me eating a whole armadillo. The frog chews away for a bit, but eventually gives up and spits the thing out.
Thats how we amuse ourselves here.
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