alt Hacker NewsI 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.
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I 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.
I'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.
This was my exact arrangement with them when I used to live in a basement suite that was crawling with them.
I 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.