share your spider relocation success stories..

[frylock]

I just removed a smallish spider from my bedroom, knocked him into a coffee mug, and dumped it in the ivy out front. It all went down without incident, as the spider was most cooperative. I always try and relo a spider rather than kill it, but I have met with some failure usually resulting in me worried about some pissed off spider stalking me in my sleep.

[Bonhomme Richard]

1. The last spider I met......................

relocated to the bottom of my shoe.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

2. i used to just kill spiders, but now i too try to relocate them

i hate spiders, but it is an irrational fear. and besides they have pissed of spider relatives if you kill one.

[BigMcLargehuge]

3. Mrs McLargehuge relocates them to Valhalla

I leave them be... spiders are way better than annoying insects

[supernova]

4. I try to relocate them if

there is something handy I can put them on/in.

I take them to te edge of the woods.

[JVS]

5. At the park I played at as a kid there were many daddy long-legs

that would crawl on the children's legs when they sat in the shelter playing cards.

It was observed that the leg of one of these spiders would flail after removed from the hub of the spider. It was especially visible if you put the legs on a white piece of paper.

[radwriter0555]

6. Yeah, I relocated one to the trash can wadded up in a paper towel

this morning.

Then I relocated one off the bottom of my shoe onto the edge of the sidewalk. With a quick scrape.

[Mr. McD]

7. I kill them only if they venture into my house.

Outside I leave them alone. There good for the garden.:)

[Canuckistanian]

8. Please, people! Do not kill spiders

They eat far nastier lifeforms and besides, there's that meteorological effect, too.

[tandot]

9. I don't have any "relocation success stories..."

the only good spider is a dead spider. At least in my house. I usually leave them alone outside but any spider inside my house will be exterminated.

We have Fiddleback Spiders (Brown Recluse) and my dog and cat are just fascinated by them. I don't want to risk anything.



Camel spiders...now, those are freaky spiders

[AntiCoup2K4]

10. Ziggy

was a spider who built this elaborate web in my doorway about 10 years ago. (Don't know whether or not he was from Mars, but the name seemed appropriate)

Since the web was on the outside - hinge corner of the doorway, it wasn't interfering with me entering or leaving the apartment, so I let him stay, on the condition that he stayed on THAT side of the door. Besides, it was a work of art, and it was October anyway, so seasonally appropriate. I think the web stayed up a good 2-3 months before the idiot landlord took it down :(

[benburch]

11. I encourage spiders...

And have very few other sorts of critter in my basement.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

12. I can't bring myself to relocate one...

Her web is right behind a fly trap in my kitchen...one of the hanging boxes coated with sticky material. It's amazing to watch her gingerly maneuver over the smorgasbord, snarfing down whatever flavor appeals to her at the moment. She's too clever to evict.

All others are sent to the rose garden.

[Unperson 309]

15. Spiders Are Particularly Adept

at moving over sticky surfaces. I have forgotten if it's wax on their teensy lil feetses or if they simply don't stick the way other critters do, but she has a beautiful setup there!

I relocate spiders *only* because if I didn't the Missus would relocate them to Spider Heaven and then she'd relocate *me* to the couch for a night for failing in my duty as Guardian Against The Evil Arachnids! I've told her that spiders in the house are not a bad thing, but will she listen? Noooooo!

When I was single, I lived quite happily with my eight legged co-tenants. They didn't bother me for my pizza and I didn't cadge bugs off them. They paid their rent in dead flies. Everybody happy.

The Missus OTOH, doesn't mind ANTS one bit! They're free to come and go at will. I frickin H*A*T*E ants with a purple passion! I'd dip my danglies in sulfuric acid if an ant got on 'em! EEEAAGGHHHHHH!

But we can't SPRAY for 'em because "It's poison! I don't want poison in the house!"

Why me, Lord?

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[GoddessOfGuinness]

18. Check out Gardens Alive!

http://www.gardensalive.com/index.asp?bhcd2=1086152751

They have a spray that's made from orange peels which works well and is safe.

Ants stink when you squish them. Must be the formic acid.

[Unperson 309]

19. Thanks! I'll Try That. (eom)

[5X]

13. I usually use GM on the brown recluses

I change their genesis from Brown Recluse to
Oklahoma Flat Spider

[Imalittleteapot]

14. Never relocate unless they're in

your bed or shoes. Spiders go where there are bugs to eat.
Never kill them unless they are brown recluses or black widows.
Never ever kill spiders on plants. They eat bad plant eating insects.

[LWolf]

16. I only relocate widows.

We have plenty. I'm pretty successful; if she resists safe relocation, I will dispatch her. But I always give her a chance for relocation first.

We supposedly have brown recluse spiders too, but in 23 years here I've never seen one. We do have wind scorpions, which is our name for those camel spiders in a previous post. They come out and scuttle around in the dark.

I leave the rest of them alone; relocate them to the outside if they are in the shower and I don't want to drown them. In 44 years, they've never bothered me.

[amerikat]

17. small one's can stay.....large ones get taken outside

live and let live

[BrotherBuzz]

20. Wifey usually relocates spiders with great success...

Mostly wolf spiders and such, but a black widow ended up residing in a jar on our kitchen counter. She has become a pet that gets fed once a week (flies). She has done very well and has even laid a couple of egg sacks (fortunately Wifey has found no mate for her and the eggs are unfertile).

[theoceansnerves]

21. i almost always relocate them

the only time i've killed any were black widows that were in an area where the cats could have gotten into. any other small harmless crawling things just get put outside.

[arwalden]

22. I relocate them too... to Spider-Heaven

even looking at the printed word "spider" give me the creepy skin sensations.

-- Allen

[Guy_Montag]

23. I always relocate them to somewhere nice...

the garden or hedges. They do scare the bejesus out of me & some of the biggest ones here take all my courage, even though they (body ex legs) are less than an inch long and quite harmless.

[LynneSin]

24. Unfortunately my cats usually relocated most spiders they find...

....into their stomachs.

My house is noticably bug free so far the difference this summer is 2 felines. It's not that I don't feed them enough - they just have 'predator' in their genes!

[GreenPartyVoter]

25. I do try to relocate, but if the bath tub drain or toilet is nearer....

I just hope he can hold his breath til he hits the leech field. (Seriously, saw the inside of a septic tank once. All sorts of critters living in it, so why not a spider too?)

/hypocrisy