How to pick up dead spider without looking at it

[happybird]

Last edited Tue May 11, 2021, 04:15 PM - Edit history (1)

UPDATE: THE DEED IS DONE!!


Went with the vacuum and long pole attachment method. I didn’t see the body when I dumped the canister which is both a positive and a negative. Positive because I didn’t see it, negative because what if it’s still in the hose?? Yikes! But I don’t even care because outta sight, outta mind. Yay!

Thank you for the ideas and support!


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This sucker is freakin huge. Like, 3/4 the size of a tarantula.

It was behind the door when I got home the other night. I womanfully sprayed it from a safe distance (and while ducking in front of the dryer for cover) but it was already dead. Thank Gawd. The carcass fell on the floor... where it has now been sitting for three days.

I am severely arachnophobic. It’s housework day and the spider needs to be picked up.

The lip on the door is too high to sweep it outside.

The broom and dustpan is a no-go. I already tried and chickened out- I’d have to look at it too much to ensure accuracy.

Suck it up with the vacuum and dump the canister? That idea sounds the best but it’s freaking me out. The canister is clear.

Arg!!

Any other ideas?

My anxiety level is sky high right now and I’m tempted to leave it there till it disintegrates. It’s in the corner behind the carport door so I can keep averting my eyes when I use that door.

This is so stupid. I know it’s stupid. I feel helpless.

[The Blue Flower]

1. Throw a napkin or paper towel over it

Then do what you need to.

[soothsayer]

2. Throw paper towels over it, then do the dustpan thing

Or slide sturdy cardboard or a magazine you don’t mind throwing out under the ‘pider and the towels, then toss it in the bushes or somewhere you won’t ever see it.

[MontanaMama]

3. I'm no help at all, unfortunately.

What kind of spider is it? Sorry...I'm probably making it worse...but 3/4 the size of a tarantula is giving me the willies!! I can't imagine.

[2naSalit]

5. Right?

We have hobo spider around here and they are big enough to creep me out, plus trigger me due to remembering the long suffering I went through after one or more of them bit my face while I was sleeping. I had six+ months of marred face, now it's just nerve damage but it's enough to need to wear protection a lot of the time.

Spiders, if they are inside my home, they're dead. Outside, I'll let them be as long as they aren't on me.

[MontanaMama]

7. No way. Me too!!

I was bitten in the face by a brown recluse during the night when I was in 7th grade...my family lived in Virginia at the time. I wore a bandage for a good six months over the bite...had a million doctor's appointments too...now just have scar tissue under the surface but thankfully no scar. My 7th grade class picture is ridiculous. Like you, if the spider decides to come in my house...it's a goner. They scare the liver out of me.

[2naSalit]

9. I never had a doctor look at it...

I did have woofers where I was and they tended to me. It wasn't until years later that I found out that a baking soda poultice on the bite will fix everything, I've had bites since and that really worked. I have flare ups when I am stressed pr pissed off, then the affected parts of my face turn bright red.

[MontanaMama]

10. Just baking soda with water in it?

I'll make note of that.

[2naSalit]

20. Yes!

But I found that if you use the kind of clay that you'd use for a clay pack on your face, mix it in with the soda, about 40/60, heavy on the soda. it will keep it on your skin for yours and works best.

The idea being that soda neutralizes the acid in the venom and facilitates drawing the poison out as well.

[MontanaMama]

22. Wonder if it would work for a bad mosquito bite.

The older I get the more allergic I am to mosquitoes. A bite lasts for a couple weeks and gets huge and painful. I know we’re way off topic here regarding our friend’s huge spider...

[2naSalit]

24. Try it...

let me know how it works. I'm going to try it next time I get a skeeter bite and let you know how it goes.

[csziggy]

26. For wasp stings I used to mix baking soda with Benadryl cream

Maybe mix in some unseasoned meat tenderizer. The idea was that the baking soda neutralized acidic toxins, the meat tenderizer broke down proteins in it, and the Benadryl helped with any allergic reaction. Plus the cream helped it stay on the skin.

It worked until I developed a serious allergic reaction to wasp and bee stings. Now I do my best to stay away from those creatures and to keep them out of my yard.

[happybird]

6. I have no clue

Maybe a wolf spider? It’s HUGE. But it’s body and leg shape look too pointy or something to be a wolf. They are roundish and fat and hairy. From my quick glimpses he doesn’t look hairy. My arachnophobia is so bad I cannot even look at pictures, so can’t google the bastard.


There was one inside the house last summer that was so big, even my cats were afraid of it. I have no shame in admitting I called my Mommy to come over and get it while the cats and I hid in the bedroom. I love my Mom, she’s the best. She drove 20 minutes to save us.

[MontanaMama]

8. Your mom is the BEST!

I support the vacuum method...have enough other stuff in the canister so the 'pider is well hidden and then dump it.

[tblue37]

18. I can't look at pictures either!

[intrepidity]

4. The vacuum is the way to go

If you have a dog or cat, there will be much fur in the cannister to camo it when dumping.

Speaking from experience...

[PoliticAverse]

11. Vacuum cleaner with the long pole extension. n/t

[happybird]

14. Oooh! The attachment!

I’ll have to find it but that is a great idea! It eliminates my beater bar fears.

[intrepidity]

16. Oh, definitely use the hose! nt

[happybird]

17. Thank you!

It worked! He’s gone! And hopefully he’s in the bag I dumped the canister into, which is now in the car trunk with the rest of my household trash.
Next task: trip to the dump.

[intrepidity]

19. I hope you duct-taped that bag closed!

(heh)

A few weeks ago, one of those ginormous spiders--the ones who look like mini tarantulas, not just long legs--appeared in my kitchen ceiling corner above the fridge, and thus far out of reach. Debating what to do, I finally told that beast that if it stayed in that corner, I wouldn't bother it (I may have been lying). I went to bed, but resolved to "relocate" it the next morning.

But, of course, it was gone. No idea where it went, but now I am hypervigilant, looking in every crack and corner, every day. Exhausting! When I find it, things won't end well for it.

[happybird]

12. I'm going to try it

Hardwood setting. I keep imagining it getting stuck on the beater bar. Ick.

Will do a another quick run through the house to suck up some more cat hair. I still can’t figure out how my orange tabby is not bald. He sheds enough every week to make another cat.

[EYESORE 9001]

13. You could move

[happybird]

15. That is #7 on the list,

right before #8: burn the house down.

[MOMFUDSKI]

21. So my husband and I were camping in mid-state Florida years back

and got into the truck (windows had been left open) to drive to canoe Silver Springs. I am wearing shorts and we have a roll of toilet paper on the truck seat to my left. I keep feeling a tickle on my thigh and assume it is the wind whipping the end of the toilet paper around. I finally look down to stop that errant toilet paper only to see a TARANTULA-SIZED spider with humpy, fuzzy legs sitting on my bare thigh. Yelled - brushed it off with my left hand onto the floor - stomped on it repeatly because THAT SCARED THE HELL OUT OF ME. lol I normally won't even kill a spider or ANY bug for that matter. If I can get it safely out the door I will.

[MontanaMama]

23. Stop it!

I gasped at “camping in mid-state Florida”! I live in Montana and have camped with all kinds of critters around from mountain lions to grizzly bears....but tarantula sized spiders. Nope.

[MOMFUDSKI]

25. LOL

Actually that was the only big spider I have seen here in the 33 years I have been here. We summer in Wisconsin and the spiders are EVERYWHERE. I very seldom see any kind of spider here. DID have a coyote walk right past my patio at 6:30 this morning which is the first time I have seen one here. They are around but it was a first for me. Looked really healthy with beautiful coat so assuming lots of folks are missing their outdoor cats and/or small dogs? OMG