Has anyone ever used citronella oil to repel spiders?

[ddiogyn]

Hallo,

I wonder if anyone can comment on whether citronella oil is an effective deterrent for spiders? For example, sprayed around windows to stop them creeping in?

[Two_Sheds]

Dunno. Spiders are welcome in my house: they eat the flies & gnats

[WrexTheDragon]

Only ever used it against midges.

[FB.]

Dunno. Spiders are welcome in my house: they eat the flies & gnats

Same here.
I don't mind a few spiders around the house, although the OH prefers it if I put the really big ones back outside.

[janeyo]

It's conkers that repel spiders..... you can get a spray from those home catalogue places (like betterware).

[rustylady]

I like spiders, case of having to really = I live in an old cottage and can't get rid of them anyway. They do at least get rid of or keep down the real nasties.

[piskieinboots]

Dunno. Spiders are welcome in my house: they eat the flies & gnats

same here

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[ddiogyn]

I don't so much mind the 'daddy long legs', it's big hairy ones the size of two-pound coins or larger that bother me *shudder*

[rustylady]

I don't so much mind the 'daddy long legs', it's big hairy ones the size of two-pound coins or larger that bother me *shudder*

Oh come on ddiogyn, are you a man or a mouse? By "the size of a 2 pound coin" are you including the legs, or just the body??

[Alison]

I like spiders, they're quite welcome in my house although the cats do occaisionally chase and eat them.

[janeyo]

If you don't like them then it doesn't matter how useful they are in the house - they are still not welcome guests!
I have been known to hoover out the greenhouse to get rid of all the egg sacs, or I wouldn't be able to go in there at all lol. And that is after 2 lots of therapy

[oldie]

Several drops of citronella oil on an old tea bag placed on the edge of a raised bed kept the cats off!.

[Hazel at the Hill]

It's conkers that repel spiders..... you can get a spray from those home catalogue places (like betterware).

Is this true?

I have had both next door's kitchen fitter & my hairdresser collecting the conkers from my big horse chestnut in the past few days because 'they repel spiders when you put them on the windowsill', which I had never heard of before.

I'm not overly bothered about spiders (mind you there have been a couple of real dinner plate jobbies in here in the last few days of which I am not that keen), but did wonder if there was any truth in the conker/spider repellant thing.

[Jeanied]

The spiders probably poke their heads round the door, spot the conkers - mutter about a mad spider hating person living there - and leg it back out.

[Two_Sheds]

I don't mind a few spiders around the house

Word has gotten round hereabouts: all the homeless spiders are now taking up residence in my kitchen.

As I'm now getting a (well-deserved) reputation as a slattern I think there will be some repatriation going on today: to the shed.
Hopefully the spiders will then gang together and build gert big webs to catch the meeces