Coming across scary bugs is probably one of a gardener’s worst fears, especially when the critter is poisonous and poses an immediate danger.
That nightmare became reality for one gardener, who came face to face with a brown recluse, one of three spiders in North America with dangerous venom – the others being the black widow and the Chilean recluse.
The encounter happened after the gardener, who goes by the Reddit username Cantorgreen, went to fetch his gloves, which alerted the spider, who came running out of one of the gloves.
Taking to the r/gardenning forum, the online user shared his useful tip to store his gloves out of critters’ reach.
“Gardener tip: store your gloves in an air-tight container to keep bugs from snuggling in,” they began.
The Texas-based gardening enthusiast admitted they rarely wear gloves while gardening due to arachnophobia.
So their solution to avoiding these bugs was storing their gardening…
