How long before it's safe to lift the upturned cup off the spider?

[losingit31]

It's been about an hour now...do you think that's long enough to extinguish it? I have visions of leaving it a week and it still scampers off in glee when I lift the cup off! And no, I'm not putting the spider outside - the fall from height would probably be the end of it anyway.

Nope, takes more than an hour as it's not air tight , you'll need to slide a sheet of paper under it

After you’ve slid the piece of cardboard underneath……. I thought it was a transportation device not a killing chamber, poor thing!

Slide a piece of paper/card under the cup and take it outside surely? You don't have to drop it from a height but even if you did it would be fine. Not sure why you'd want to suffocate it?

It’s a spider. Not a rattlesnake. Don’t suffocate it. Slide a piece of card under the glass, lift and let it go outside.

Mate, it’ll take ages to suffocate to death. And that’s horrible.

Just do the paper & transport to window or door thing.

I'd never kill a spider. I use a glass and piece of card then pop it outside, or drop onto a window sill if in a top floor flat.

What @Wolfiefan said. It goes outside... You don't have to see it or touch it once the cardboard is over it. Spiders are useful creatures that catch flies...why would you want to kill it?

It doesnt suffocate them! It's not airtight.
You have to move it

Spiders have an incredibly slow metabolism compared to mammals - they need barely any oxygen to survive. Please see if anyone can take the poor thing outside and release it, otherwise you'll have to leave it in the flass for hours and hours while it dies a very slow and nasty death.

FFS, just put a piece of card under it and carry it outside. Don;;t drop it from a height.

Don't leave the poor spider to die a slow death, please release it outside. Spiders are lovely and friendly and we need them to catch all the nasty buzzy flies.

Unless you live in Australia it's perfectly safe, just as it was when the spider was going about its business.

Don't kill it FFS! Just let it out

I once trapped a big house spider under a glass, and it was still alive and actually trying to make webs after five days. I felt so bad about it by then, that I rang a friend to come round and put it outside (I felt it had done enough to deserve to survive…)

I’m no longer quite so arachnophobic, so I generally do the piece of card thing now. Learned my lesson seeing the poor thing alive under a glass for nearly a week!

That's so cruel and you sound almost gleeful about it. You can't be that scared if you put a cup over it. This is coming from someone who is genuinely frightened of spiders but if my husband or son are taking one out of the house for me I always shout not to kill it - but they wouldn't want to kill it anyway.

I fear you will have to leave it for a couple of weeks, or it will spring into life and run up your leg to pay you back for imprisoning it. Could you not get a long stick to knock the cup over, and have the hose from your vaccuum cleaner positioned ready to suck it up?

It's just a wee spider not doing you any harm FFS

Ummm or not! Fuck sake, just take it outside, you are being beyond pathetic and cruel.

It won't be there now. It will be long gone. Ready to jump out at you when you least expect it.😁😁

Just move house and leave the cup.

I’m so sick of humans killing stuff. Just take the poor thing outside FFS.

Well I’m the biggest arachnophobia going and even I would have someone put it outside. You cant seriously think it will suffocate in an upturned cup, no one’s that dumb.

Hate to break it to you, but most spiders you’ll see in the UK are tegenaria domestica- house spiders- and won’t survive outside. So you are killing them too.

She asked me to kill the spider
Instead, I got the most
peaceful weapons I can find

I take a cup and a napkin.
I catch the spider, put it outside
and allow it to walk away

If I am ever caught in the wrong place
at the wrong place, just being alive
and not bothering anyone,

I hope I am greeted
with the same kind
of mercy.

If you are trying to suffocate it, forget it. Slide a thin card under the cup to trap it inside, take entire cup/spider/card to the end of the garden. Invert cup, swiftly remove card, spider drops out. Also works for bees and wasps trapped against window panes.