Last week, I went into the garden shed to do a little clean-up, and noticed a beach towel I had left in there. Unfolding the towel, I discovered two hard shelled and pearly-white eggs the size of edamame beans. One had hatched, but the hatchling was nowhere to be found. I quickly decided that I had to find out what was inside the other egg. The size gave me a pretty good idea it had to be a lizard, and I remembered reading somewhere that the brown anoles lay one to two eggs, and there are a ton of anoles in my backyard, so that was a possibility. Geckos also will often lay two eggs; ultimately it was a matter of setting up a hatching container and waiting for the outcome. I carefully placed the egg in simple container in some paper toweling and left that in the shed. I didn't have to wait long; in just a matter of a few days, out popped a mini gecko, with what seemed to be the egg skin still clinging to its back. I was happy to add this little trouper to the established gecko population around the house - they do such a nice job with cockroach extermination. If you know someone who wants to try hatching some gecko eggs of their own, I've read that papaya, banana and palm trees are good places to find eggs. Or try the garden shed.
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