• iconNews
  • videos
  • entertainment
  • Home
  • News
    • UK News
    • US News
    • Australia
    • Ireland
    • World News
    • Weird News
    • Viral News
    • Sport
    • Technology
    • Science
    • True Crime
    • Travel
  • Entertainment
    • Celebrity
    • TV & Film
    • Netflix
    • Music
    • Gaming
    • TikTok
  • LAD Originals
    • Say Maaate to a Mate
    • Daily Ladness
    • Lad Files
    • UOKM8?
    • FreeToBe
    • Extinct
    • Citizen Reef
  • Advertise
  • Terms
  • Privacy & Cookies
  • LADbible Group
  • UNILAD
  • SPORTbible
  • GAMINGbible
  • Tyla
  • UNILAD Tech
  • FOODbible
  • License Our Content
  • About Us & Contact
  • Jobs
  • Latest
  • Topics A-Z
  • Authors
Facebook
Instagram
X
Threads
Snapchat
TikTok
YouTube

LAD Entertainment

YouTube

LAD Stories

Submit Your Content
Mum shares hack to help get rid of giant spiders invading UK homes

Home> Lifestyle

Published 15:27 19 Sep 2023 GMT+1

Mum shares hack to help get rid of giant spiders invading UK homes

The simple hack has scientific backing

Claire Reid

Claire Reid

Featured Image Credit: Leemage/Art Images via Getty Images / Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Topics: Hacks, TikTok, Viral, Animals

Claire Reid
Claire Reid

Claire is a journalist at LADbible who, after dossing around for a few years, went to Liverpool John Moores University. She graduated with a degree in Journalism and a whole load of debt. When not writing words in exchange for money she is usually at home watching serial killer documentaries surrounded by cats. You can contact Claire at [email protected]

Advert

Advert

Advert

A woman has shared a simple hack to help deter spiders from entering your home this autumn.

As the weather takes a turn for the worse, spiders that are usually content living outside experience a change of heart and start trying to shack up in people’s homes.

Coupled with the worsening weather in the UK, we’re also heading into spider mating season and it seems that when it comes to getting down to business our eight-legged friends would rather do it somewhere cosy and dry - I can’t say I blame them, to be fair.

Now, for some people, the odd spider - no matter how sex crazed - is no big deal and they can harmoniously live with the arachnids.

Advert

But for others a spider in the home is a nightmare situation made real - and if this is you then you may be interested to know there’s a simple and cheap hack that folks swear helps to banish spiders.

A woman has shared a simple hack to banish spiders.
TikTok/@kamanabhaskaran

Kamana Bhaskaran, who has more than 190,000 followers on TikTok was asked: "Anything for spiders please? My two-year-old got terrorised the other day by seeing one on the curtains."

And she sure did - in a clip, she explained: “Let me show you how to keep them away with this all-natural spider spray.

“Fill a spray bottle with water, add peppermint oil and swish.

Advert

“Spray along the outside of the house, entryways and windows and in corners. The peppermint smell repels the spiders. No more spiders!”

Bhaskaran’s tip has been praised by arachnophobes on TikTok, with one person said: “Thanks so much for sharing, I even see them in my bedroom upstairs.”

Another commenter said: “I'll definitely try this, the pest control guy said the spiders are the worst to kill.”

Others have insisted the trick works.
TikTok/@kamanabhaskaran

A third wrote: “Thank you. I will definitely try this out!”

Advert

And a fourth said: “Man, I hope this works though I may be too late. I think a big brown spider pod full of baby spiders hatched in my home.” You might want to consider burning your place down, mate.

While others insisted it worked, with someone else adding: “Omg I did this last year and I think it worked. I’ve just had my delivery of peppermint oil.”

For what it’s worth, the simple hack is backed by science, too - a study published in Journal of Economic Entomology back in 2018 found that two of the spider species tested (out of three) avoided entering areas that had been sprayed with peppermint oil 75 percent of the time.

Choose your content:

8 hours ago
a day ago
3 days ago
  • 8 hours ago

    Brits left divided being told to never keep three types of food in the fridge

    'What is the point of even having a fridge?'

    Lifestyle
  • a day ago

    Dad suing Tui for £500,000 after suffering life-changing injuries during quad bike trip given as compensation for ‘smelly’ room

    Tony Holliday says he is no longer 'the same person that he was' after the horror ATV crash

    Lifestyle
  • a day ago

    Flight attendant reveals why the food is so bad on planes

    The food does taste different - but not for the reason you'd expect

    Lifestyle
  • 3 days ago

    'Smoking couple' on TUI plane turn airport into 'warzone' as Brits stranded for 17 hours and flight abandoned

    A couple were kicked off the flight after being caught smoking in the bathroom

    Lifestyle
  • Nutrition expert shares 50p hack to help cure your hangover faster
  • Thousands of giant spiders 'the size of a human hand' in UK after zoo set them free
  • Mysterious bright green pigeon spotted in UK town has experts 'sounding the alarm'
  • People can't help but notice Gillian Anderson's awkwardness in iconic line up of celebrities compared to 'The Hunger Games'