Brits Told To Rub Orange Peel On Windowsills This Month

Orange peelAs the increasingly soggy weather kicks in, a simple bowl of salt can be key to keeping condensation and damp at bay. But to get rid of another seasonal issue, Iwan Carrington shared on Stacey Solomon’s Sort Your Life Out, you’ll need a different cupboard staple. “Wipe a little bit of this around your window frames,” he advised on the show while holding the skin of the fruit. The waste product, he said, could help to repel spiders, which appear most often in our homes from mid-August to mid-October.How do orange peels repel spiders?As Carrington put it, bugs and spiders “really don’t like” the pungent smell of the oil held in orange skins. Country Living Magazine writes that spiders actually “hate all citrus scents”, meaning limes and lemons ought to do the job just as well.They recommend applying it to your skirting boards and bookshelves as well as your windowsills.This is especially useful in September, when spiders are at their most active. Professor Adam Hart, ecologist, conservation scientist, and entomologist, previously told HuffPost UK that this doesn’t actually mean we get a sudden influx of the creepy-crawlies, however.“As summer ends and autumn begins, we tend to see large house spiders more and more, at least for a few weeks,” he told us.“Most of the spiders we see trotting across the carpets are males, out looking for females” – meaning your citrus-based repellents are more likely to prevent existing spiders from making their way into more visible parts of your home than they are to stop them from “coming in”. @bbcKeep bugs at bay with this amazing tip from Iwan 🕷️ SortYourLifeOut iPlayer StaceySolomon HomeHacks Cleaning CleanTok♬ original sound - BBC - BBCWhen do the spiders start hiding again?If you’re really not a fan of our eight-legged friends, try to remember, Professor Hart said, that “spiders are incredibly important in the wider ecosystem, and we don’t notice them for most of the year”. Killing them is not ideal. They keep other creepy-crawlies at bay, and many actively prefer to eat the most pestilent flies around.If it’s any reassurance, you won’t have long to wait ’til they return to their favourite corner or hard-to-spot nook.“We studied ‘spider season’ a few years ago by asking people to record their sightings, and by around mid-October sightings were unusual – so if you aren’t a spider fan don’t worry, ‘spider season’ doesn’t last forever,” Dr Hart said.Related...Brits Urged To Keep A Bowl Of Salt On Their Windowsills This Month

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