Tips for Keeping Spiders Out of Your Backyard

Keeping spiders out of your backyard starts with these smart prevention habits.

Most spiders in Middle Tennessee are harmless, and spiders are a natural part of a healthy outdoor ecosystem. However, this doesn’t mean we want to deal with their presence or have their webs across our patio furniture or throughout our outdoor spaces. Honestly, venomous or not, a steady stream of eight-legged visitors near our doors and windows is at least unpleasant – at most, nightmare fuel.

Managing spiders includes a multi-step approach with yard maintenance habits and pest management.

Backyard Spider Prevention Methods

There are natural methods of prevention spiders around your yard and home, which will not require a lot of time and effort if you perform them regularly.

Remove Spider Webs

One way to help deter them is to clear out webs, including in typical hiding spaces. Of course, we know that picking up a broom and getting spider webs off porch columns, doorways, and windows is important. But sometimes, the source of your spider invasion is hidden beneath the porch, around our grill areas, under stored wood, and on the kids’ play equipment. Be sure to seek out cool, shady areas, and clear webs there too.

Tidy Up Your Landscaping

Another way to deter spiders is to keep landscaping trimmed back. Hiding spaces are easily found by spiders among overgrown shrubbery, vines, tall grasses, yard debris, and dense ground cover. It’s also important to keep bushes and branches cut back from your home, garage, and outbuildings.

Reduce Outdoor Storage Close to Your House

You can also keep firewood, flowerpots, stored outdoor items, and the like from sitting directly against your home. Anything that touches the home should be inspected regularly for spider webs or habitats.

Switch Up Your Outdoor Lighting

Consider reducing your outdoor lighting – whether by the number of lights used, or the hours they’re used – if you are experiencing an influx of spider webs being built around your outdoor lights. Using warmer-hued light bulbs or LED lighting will be less attractive to flying insects that gather there and invite spiders to build their webs to catch them.

Tidy Up Food and Trash Areas

Outdoor meals are an important part of backyard enjoyment for Nashville area residents, but spills, crumbs, and open trash receptacles attract insects. In turn, this creates an easy food source for spiders. Regularly wipe down tables or food prep areas, keep trash cans sealed, and don’t keep pet food out if it’s not being used.

These types of small habits will make your outdoor space less appealing to the insects spiders love to hunt.

Insect Control Matters for Spider Control

Spiders are not showing up around your home by happenstance. If they’re in your yard, they’ve found a food source in other various insects that are already present.

Mosquitoes, flies, ants, and other outdoor pests can turn your private backyard into a reliable public food source for spiders. Seemingly inconsequential outdoor bugs will entice spiders to all the places you don’t want them. If you don’t want spiders, eliminate their healthy food source.

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