Thought I'd share this adapted spider catcher hack.
I tried several spider humane vacuum catchers, but they were all too feeble or broke too soon.
I don't mind spiders generally, but when they are of the size & speed of the type that I regularly get, I had to do something.
So I took the plastic tubes from the crap battery device, fitted some ultra fine stainless mesh over one end secured with rubber O rings & added the magic ingredient, a Dyson cordless vacuum.
Result, something that can pull bees and flies out of the air, suck up the smallest & largest of UK spiders without harming them and they don't make it into the main chamber/bin, just detach the tube & drop the bugs outside.
Plus, its a proper bloke sized unit, my brother in law loves it
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Probably still clearing up a recent massive cluster fly outbreak
Rural life is not all it's cracked up to be
It auto-converts to launch mode and then the spider is gone.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I quite like spiders and moths too, so I'd prefer it if he was even more useless really.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
They're like hairy evil looking crawling homing pigeons.
Some of mine are big enough to put GPS tags on, but that wouldn't be sporting
The Mrs is shit scared and unfortunately has passed that onto the kids. I could see it coming and did everything with them - helping me removing them letting them stroke them etc!
Unfortunately her fear was stronger...
Spiders kill flies and should be a welcome guest in any house.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
It's not like they shoot them on the wing.
It's not as though we have black widows here.
I made 100% sure not to show any dislike of spiders when my kids were growing up, we always showed them the captured spider in the glass and they would come and see as we let them out in the garden. Worked for us, they are all OK with spiders and 3 of my kids will just pick them up to throw out.
I had a pal who's mum would freak out at the merest sight of spiders when he was growing up, and he said that she definitely passed it on to him so I really wanted to avoid that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steatoda_nobilis
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Useless freeloading bastards.
The kids are not quite as bad as their Mum and are more likely to use a cup and card removal technique but still have an unhealthy fear.
The wife just screams and leaves the room.