AN expert has revealed the spider hiding place that’s helping them stay unnoticed in our homes – and it’s a spot that we rarely check.
When rolls around, so does season and you might have started spotting the eight-legged creatures around your home more often lately.
As the cools down and kicks off, the creepy crawlies are more likely to make their way into our .
But it turns out that there are tiny gaps in the homes of Brits that can often go overlooked, allowing spiders to stay hidden.
Picture frames as well as photos, prints and art on walls can provide the perfect arachnid hideaway and it could be why so many of us are sharing our home with them.
The gap behind a hung photo is dark, quiet, and undisturbed, making the perfect place for house spiders on the hunt for a mate.
Julia Kindermann, print industry expert at Custtom , explains that the warmth, dust and darkness that the gap behind a photo frame provides is the ideal spider environment.
Adding that it’s easy to forget to check behind frames and prints to clean them, she said: “It’s such an easy bit to forget, but giving the back of your frames a dusting every few weeks makes a real difference, not just the wall in front of them. While you’re at it, check that the tape or clips are still holding everything flush against the wall.
“Once a gap opens up, that’s exactly the kind of spot a spider will move into. It has nothing to do with the photo itself. It’s just dark and quiet back there, which is exactly what they’re after.”
Julia continued: “If a piece hangs somewhere naturally damp, near a bathroom or an exterior wall, it’s worth checking now and then that the wooden frame hasn’t started to warp.
“A warped frame can pull away from the wall slightly, and that’s exactly the kind of gap that gives a spider more room to move in.”
Meanwhile, expert ecologist, Professor Adam Hart, says that spiders often stick around in our homes in hiding places like these all year round, going totally unnoticed.
So, if you want to keep spiders at bay all year, it’s vital to make sure dingy, dusty and gloomy gaps in your home are checked and cleaned regularly.
