For those of us who traveled to the West Coast of Mexico in pas decades, the movie "Night of the Iguana" was the real thing, as any number of thatched beach resorts came with live iguana in the thatch as "Self Nourished Extermination Systems"
When there's 'skeeter net, use it. When the bed posts are set in coffee cans of kerosene, not only are the bugs big, they may be carniverous.