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How to Catch and Release Spiders

By eHow Home & Garden Editor
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Instead of squashing that spider in your house, give it a new lease on life - it's good karma.

Difficulty: Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  • Cups
  • A Sheet Of Stiff Notebook Papers
  1. Step 1

    Isolate the spider on a flat expanse of floor, table or wall.

  2. Step 2

    Place a cup or glass, preferably a transparent one, over the spider. Hold the cup firmly.

  3. Step 3

    Lifting the cup only slightly, slip a piece of stiff scrap paper under the cup and spider. Try not to trap the spider's legs against the glass.

  4. Step 4

    Turn the cup right side up with the paper over the top of it. Shake the paper as necessary to knock the spider into the glass's bottom.

  5. Step 5

    Carry the glass, capped by the paper, far away from the house.

  6. Step 6

    Re-invert the glass on a patch of ground near bushes or plants.

  7. Step 7

    Slip out the paper.

  8. Step 8

    Lift the glass and leave.

Tips & Warnings
  • Left to their own devices, spiders often eat annoying insects.
  • If you think the spider is dangerous, don't attempt to remove it yourself.

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on 11/22/2005 If you have sand put the spider in the sand. get the cap and put it under the sandand scoop it in.take it and release it.

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