I live in the American Midwest and my building gets a LOT of orb weavers on my balcony. I don’t mind them so much but they accumulate rapidly and have a rather successful feeding frenzy in the summer time. They get a bit territorial and when try to reason with them they just shake their webs menacingly at me. Anyway this makes having guests difficult so I am wondering if any of you fine people have suggestions for humane temporary deterrents? I’ve heard citronella is useful?
Obligatory Caitlin Henderson video.
More serious: There aren’t any reliable deterrences as far as I’m aware.
But since you’re dealing with orb-weavers one option would be to just destory their webs before you’re having people over. Depending on which kind of orb-weavers you have this will give you at least few hours before they rebuild, maybe even till next morning.