A new way to catch spider's.

[Tri Girl]

That's funny. I saw it in a magazine the other day. What a clever invention.
My best tried and true spider catcher is still my foot (ok- not so much a catcher, but a killer). I was once bitten by a brown recluse, and the scar it left after eating my flesh is ugly. I kill all spiders in fear of being bitten again. Sorry, spiders.

[VeloVT]

I use the vacuum cleaner myself .

Then I don't have to get too close...

[OakLeaf]

A (large) piece of paper scooted underneath them works for most, if they're near enough to a door or window to carry them outside.

A jar or plastic container over them, and a piece of cardboard slid underneath to close it, works for many more.

The ones that are so shy that I can't get near enough to catch them, are so shy that they will never get near enough to bite me. And a few spiders in the house help keep the insects down

I was raised believing it's bad luck to kill a spider. I have no compunction about mosquitoes or cockroaches but I don't like to kill anything that isn't threatening me or my home.

[latelatebloomer]

My grammy always told us that if you killed a spider, it would rain.

We're pretty good at the cup + paper catch/release. (I always wonder what the bug thinks about that.) It doesn't work for the millipedes that come up from the basement when it gets real dry down there. Some of them are the size of lobsters - or seem so, in their alien-ness - and are too soft-bodies to endure catch & release. So we put our hands over our eyes and chant, "go back downstairs, go back downstairs!"

[Brandi]

I don't have a problem killing ants! That's for sure! But spiders are different. I don't like black widos though. Outside I will kill them. I have a nasty scar on my arm from one.

[Zen]

I never ever kill spiders. my house is home to many of the genus Pholcus, a water loving guy who I often find waiting for me in the bathtub.
I just get a piece of tp, he climbs on it and I relocate him.

[Trek420]

I'm a "catch and release" person myself.

[Trekhawk]

It doesn't work for the millipedes that come up from the basement when it gets real dry down there. Some of them are the size of lobsters - or seem so, in their alien-ness - and are too soft-bodies to endure catch & release. So we put our hands over our eyes and chant, "go back downstairs, go back downstairs!"

LLB - you make me laugh. I can just imagine you doing that.

[Tuckervill]

Someone told me the other day that spiders are so abundant that even in your house and when you can't see them, you are never more than 10 feet away from at least one.

The arachnophobic person sitting next to me immediately stood up and moved herself to the center of the room!

Karen

[OakLeaf]

Someone told me the other day that spiders are so abundant that even in your house and when you can't see them, you are never more than 10 feet away from at least one.

The arachnophobic person sitting next to me immediately stood up and moved herself to the center of the room!

Karen

That reminds me of the old joke: "I read that most accidents happen within 5 miles of home. So I moved."