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How do you capture spiders?

Siddhartha

Siddhartha

Lifer
This morning I saw a large spider, a tarantula?, running across my apartment's living room floor. Is there a way to live capture a spider?

TIA
 
Glass or plastic jar/cup over the spider, carefully slide a piece of paper underneath the jar. Then when it's upright put the lid on?
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Glass or plastic jar/cup over the spider, carefully slide a piece of paper underneath the jar. Then when it's upright put the lid on?
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Or in his case, a bucket. 😀
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Glass or plastic jar/cup over the spider, carefully slide a piece of paper underneath the jar. Then when it's upright put the lid on?
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I was looking for some type of trap. It moves pretty fast.
 
Do tarantulas move fast? I've seen those big ugly brown long legged fast spiders. Oh, I hate them. I'd get a newspaper and smash it.
*shivers*
 
Originally posted by: ^aolj^
Do tarantulas move fast? I've seen those big ugly brown long legged fast spiders. Oh, I hate them. I'd get a newspaper and smash it.
*shivers*
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I am not sure it is a tarantula. All I saw was a large dark spider-like thing running across the floor....

 
Originally posted by: mpitts
If there are tarantulas running around your apartment, you might just be best to move.
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lol. Vacuum cleaner usually does a nice job, but in this case, better get a shop-vac.
 
bah, you guys are too boring. If you're gonna capture it, then use the method that RossMAN suggested. If your gonna kill it, then at least have some fun doing it. Make some paper bullets, and shoot it with a rubberband.
 
Tarantulas arent native to New Hampshire. So if theres one running around in your apt, you need to get a can of raid and do the outline of the your apt.

Bugz is suck!
~wnied~
 
It was probably a Wolf spider. Even if it were a tarantula, just pick it up (not that I would ever do it, but...). Both species are pretty benign and will only attack prey, not humans (unless they are really really provoked). The reason it is moving fast is probably because it is running the hell away from you. The best way to capture it is to corner it and then catch in a large jar.
 
Originally posted by: wnied

Bugz is suck!
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Yes, bugz are suck. And spiders eat bugs. Therefore spiders are not suck. Except brown recluse spiders and other species that will bite you just for looking at them funny. They suck.

 
Originally posted by: Cerebus451
It was probably a Wolf spider. Even if it were a tarantula, just pick it up (not that I would ever do it, but...). Both species are pretty benign and will only attack prey, not humans (unless they are really really provoked). The reason it is moving fast is probably because it is running the hell away from you. The best way to capture it is to corner it and then catch in a large jar.
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I've seen HUGE wolf spiders. I hate em, they give me the creeps. I was actually thinking of how big of a mess it would make if you smashed a tarantula with something. That would be disgusting.
 
I hate spiders, so I usually get a gut reaction to smash them flat as quickly as possible. However, in this case the spider is large enough that this would likely squirt spider guts everywhere (much like stepping on a ketchup packet). Raid would probably work too slowly, and he'd get out of the way fast so you're not likely to empty the entire can on him, so I'd go with the hairspray. A good aerosol hairspray will clog up his air passages, and he'll go into convulsions almost immediately.
 
A gun.



Well, personally, if I had a spider that big around me...I've get a full body suit, helmet, etc., find that fscker and pick him up w/ some tongs. Then I would toss him in a little glass filled with liquid nitrogen/tetraflourothane.
 
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