Do grass tufts harvested via lureplants spawn grass gekkos?

I've been thinking of digging up a large amount of grass tufts and using them in conjuction with lureplants to make automatic farms. however, I need to know if lureplants harvesting transplanted grass will spawn gekkos. this would be detrimental, as the lureplants would kill the gekkos, causing my world to lose grass over time. any help would be much appreciated!