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Yeah same, we do not bother spiders in the house unless they jump into bed or on food or whatever, and then we just take them outside. With spiders and cats in
by colordrops 10mo ago
Yeah same, we do not bother spiders in the house unless they jump into bed or on food or whatever, and then we just take them outside. With spiders and cats in the house we never see any flies or other insects.
- thaumasiotes 10mo agoWe have a lot of spiders and yet they don't seem to do much about the silverfish. :( They do hunt millipedes and then drag the corpses back to their lair to form a millipede graveyard.
- whywhywhywhy 10mo agoSilverfish are one of the few insects grosser than any spider, even the way they scuttle is revolting.
- thaumasiotes 10mo agoI'm more offended by the fact that they eat books and bookbinding glue.
- bob1029 10mo agoI have a rule with the spiders where if they get too bold they get the vacuum. I don't mind them lurking in the corners but I don't want them crawling across my desk. I think most of them understand the arrangement by now. Only occasional enforcement is necessary.
- jamespo 10mo agoglass and piece of card, come on!
- rubzah 10mo agoIncidentally, this method cured me of arachnophobia. Having it trapped inside the glass, yet in my hand and up close to take a closer look, allowed me to gradually see them as not all that scary. It's like that therapy where you gradually get closer to the thing you're afraid of (desensitization?).
- 4dregress 10mo agoI like to think of them as little robots, however I still need to get my partner to move them. I think it’s their speed which I don’t like!
- loloquwowndueo 10mo agoTHIS. You can then also show the spider to the kids for added interest before releasing it into the wild.
- bob1029 10mo agoThe point is to send a message to the other spiders.
- alwa 10mo agoI deal with trespassing flies this way. They spend some time in fly jail (butterfly net, twisted closed and propped against the door frame through which they entered) pour encourager les autres, then they go free outside at dusk. Pheromones, interpretive dance, telepathy,—I don’t know exactly how the others get the message but I know that they do, and they stay on the correct side of the doorway.
- xattt 10mo agoI tried this with a yellowjacket and a screamer of a Shop Vac that has a six-foot hose. I was sure it would have suffocated from the dust inside the vacuum bag clogging its spiracles. Next morning, the wasp (now with tattered wings) was sitting in the corner of a window. I have no idea how it made it out.
- capitainenemo 10mo agoIt's probably a pretty natural path for the wasp assuming it survived the initial time you were running the vac. The shopvac is just a big container with at the top an exit path following the wall naturally out the tube. They don't even tend to have a flap like smaller hand vacs might have to keep dust from falling out during use.
- ajuc 10mo agoUse glass and a paper sheet, much easier and less harsh on the "bugs".
- SauntSolaire 10mo agoI don't find that any easier, and generally don't care about insect welfare.
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- PaulHoule 10mo agoI feel guilty when I take down the webs. Wool dusters work as well as the vac. Lately I have been trying to get macro photos of spiders hanging on their threads and so far failing because they see the camera and drop down a foot before I can set up the shot.
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- voidfunc 10mo agoI'm sure putting it outside makes you feel better but it's a death sentence regardless for most house spiders to be put into the outdoors.
- shadowpho 10mo agoWhy?
- Magi604 10mo agoThis was my exact arrangement with them when I used to live in a basement suite that was crawling with them.
- _qua 10mo agoI've never really understood the "spiders protect you from pests" argument. Yeah, sure they eat flies. But I'd much rather have a fly buzz past me and get stuck to some fly paper than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow. Maybe I have arachnophobia, but they're freaky little creatures that I don't want in my living space.
- pwndByDeath 10mo agoThey eat the creatures who want to eat you. Like beautiful guardian angels
- chrisweekly 10mo agoThat's how I feel about dragonflies. Spiders are, to me, equally interesting but less enjoyable. I tolerate a few spiders in our house, but not in bedrooms or the kitchen.
- sheepscreek 10mo ago> than have a spider drop from the door frame on an invisible silk thread and slam into my face, or run across my pillow Rare if ever happens. Maybe 5 times in your life time. I will pay that cost any day. I have made friends with spiders. Flies spread diseases, spiders eat them. Spiders seldom bite humans and when they do, it’s nowhere near as bad as getting scratched by a cat.
- ysavir 10mo agoFor what it's worth, it happens to me about 5 times each summer. But I also welcome spiders as pest control, so it's not a surprise, and I forget all about it 5 seconds later.
- sheepscreek 10mo agoYou should make friends with Canadian spiders then. They are very polite. I don’t remember the last time I got bit :)