This Simple Hack Will Keep Spiders Out of Your House
Updated: Nov. 08, 2022
It's chemical-free!
The last thing you want to see when you turn on the light in the bathroom late at night is a spider in the middle of the floor. Also, it can make your skin crawl to watch one scurry across the bedroom floor and hide under a dresser before you can get to it.
If there’s one spider, that means there are plenty more. That’s not such a bad thing as spiders kill other pests in your home, but that doesn’t necessarily mean you want them anywhere near you. This is why you should never kill a spider.
There is an easy solution to repel spiders in areas of the home where you don’t want them, and that solution is hedge apples! The natural chemicals in this funky-looking fruit of the Osage orange tree are believed to deter spiders.
When using hedge apples as a spider repellent, just make sure they are placed in areas where pets and family members can’t get at them.
Simply place a few hedge apples in areas where you want to repel spiders such as in the dark corners of your unfinished basement, in the attic, or in your backyard shed.
