A new way to catch spider's.

[Brandi]

Ok so I am hanging out at NPR this morning. actually I am at the science friday web site.
I tend to remove spiders from my house. I know some kill them , some flush them down a toilet etc... But I tend to try and take them outside if I can. I don't know I guess I feel it is hard enough to try a survive this world when you are our size but think of what they have to try and do. So even though I am not a fan of them I do respect their right to live. It doesn't always work out though when I try and take them outside. Some do parish in the process.
But now I have found this handy spider remover. Maybe you would like one too! http://www.dazzleconcepts.com/servle...Catcher/Detail
I saw them use it on a video on science friday and they seem to do the job!

[KnottedYet]

That is so cute! I love that it even comes with a plastic spider to practice on!

[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!"