One of my husband’s former coworkers moved to an area where scorpions are common. They quickly established an SOP of checking their shoes for scorpions if the shoes were left outside.
Thankfully, garters are not poisonous, so no major disasters if one did get in my boots, but they can bite and cause infection. And they are so stinky!! My husband would catch one occasionally just to take a pic. The stink… ewwww.