How to Catch and Release Spiders

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

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

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

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

7. Slip out the paper.

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.

[david555]

on 7/14/2009 Of course, you might want to mention that household spiders are often primarily indoor spiders which cannot survive outside the house so killing them would be kinder than letting them suffer by putting them outside.

This is great advice for garden spiders that have strayed inside though, but most household spiders were born in our houses and live and die there because they cannot survive outdoors.

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.