Do spiders die if vacuumed up?

[PastelMonkey]

I have an increasing number of those spindly spiders appearing in my house. I've been happy to leave them alone until I had one crawling on my back 😱
I'm thinking I can vacuum them all and then put the bag out to the bin but I don't want them all crawling out whilst I'm doing it!
I don't want them dead but also don't want them on me.

Anyone tested this and know if the vacuuming kills them or not?

I’m in an area where we have the 30% bigger, fabled Hertfordshire Horror. Also known as Tegenaria Gigantica (although I think they’ve changed the classification).

Watch a cellar spider take down one down.

Its like a lion pouncing on a lonely gazelle with one leg at a watering hole.

I’m terrified of the big buggers, (as a late teen, I popped my BF’s dressing gown on, and thought he was tickling my arm, except it was one of those Horrors galloping down it as I’d invaded his fluffy home). Even typing this is making the hairs on my head tingle & not in a good way.

So I’ve learned to live in harmony with my cellar spider chums.

I'm mortally afraid of cellar spiders. All others are fine!

With the vacuum style spider catchers how do you release them? Does it have a blow function or do you just have to let them crawl out?

I have been leaving the spiders alone as I hate the thought of killing anything. Even the big ones I ask dp to try not to kill them.
But after having one on my back, I'd rather be rid of them.

There are far more spiders in the UK than people.
Guaranteed there will dozens of spiders in each home, living in quiet corners, under sofas, behind wood work.
We are never far from a spider.

Spiders eat other potentially damaging bugs- best to leave alone.
If you need to put them outside gently with a glass and a piece of cardboard.
Other living things are part of our world,
Personally I just ignore spiders, let them get on with their spidery business.

The theatrical" "Eek ! A spider" reaction while clutching skirts and pearls doesn't do much for me I'm afraid.
True phobias do exist of course, but otherwise we are simply passing on an unfounded fear and over reaction to our children.
From my experience it seems to be women who are more likely to a histrionic spider outburst than men- happy to be proven wrong on that.

Agree with @speakout the over the top fuss made over a spider is pathetic. As parents surely we have a duty to grow up and model sensible, kind behaviour.

I used to be ok with spiders and always trapped them humanely, but ever since an enormous one jumped at me, followed by a succession of them running around my flat, I'm embarrassed to say I'm terrified.

I have a cat now who's very good at catching them.

@DcatAnnie Just a question if anyone knows - the spindly spiders are all up around the top of my ceiling. They are fine. Sometimes they have lots of babies. However the house spiders I see are usually running (fast!) across the floor, so how are they eaten by the spindly ones?
Just to answer this one, the big ones are hunters, they roam around looking for prey. If a cellar spider notices one getting close, it will vibrate in its web imitating the movements of a large bug, the hunter jumps on it and gets bitten

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@speakout

Having a true phobia of spiders is not 'pathetic', it's utterly miserable. I am petrified of spiders. I have had therapy and taken the London Zoo course. In autumn and spring, it is hell, as I have to check everywhere for spiders. If I see a large one, I shake, feel sick and am terrified for ages afterwards, feeling completely unnerved. It is truly horrible to be at the mercy of my fear and I hate feeling this way. I am not scared of any other bugs or animals, only spiders.

But thanks for your human understanding and kindness.

We have cardinal spiders here living in the hanging tiles on the outside of the house. In the autumn they come inside, looking for friends to get jiggly with. They’re fucking massive, and I am phobic. One landed on my face once, my face, and it took a lot of getting over.

I have learnt to live with the spindly ones like pps. If you’re an arachnophobe, they are your friends. Seriously.

Hoover them up and leave the hoover running for a few mins. If you can hoover the carpet to get some good debris in there to make sure they are dead then do that. Unless it's a tarantula sized spider then it will die in there. And don't feel bad and don't tolerate them in your house if you don't like them.

I get stricken with guilt if I accidentally kill one, I can't imagine deliberately hoovering one up, putting it outside or squashing it. I actually feel sad thinking how many spiders are killed in other people's homes.

Ì am very afraid of spiders. We moved house 2.5 years ago and have the spindly ones in this house (never had them in the last house). I leave them be (on the understanding they stick to a certain area!) and we have only had 2 large black spiders in the house in all that time.

I can just about tolerate the spindly ones as they tend to stay in the same spot and not move about too much and I do believe they are somehow deterring the larger ones.

I wish someone would give the cellar spiders in my house the memo about killing house spiders.

Or they scuttle back into the house!

@PastelMonkey I was at the GP's years ago with son , and a spider was near us in the surgery... Doctor allowed it to live.
''If you want to live and thrive/let a spider run alive'' - an old superstition.

Once I killed a spider outright indoors as it looked alien and venomous - but when I googled later for the species .. it was a woodlouse eating spider.

Only seen two so far, and didn't kill the second one.

They are not a native UK spider..global warming ?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/19673305/woodlouse-spider-venomous/

False Black Widow are an interesting spider, too...One lived in an old bird box for years...Whether the same one, or not I don't know.

I wish I never opened this thread.

I'm terrified of spiders, I welcome the cellar spiders in though and leave them to do their thing of getting rid of the ones I'm terrified of.
I have been known to pop a cellar spider into a small container at work to take home if I see one.
I give them names too.
Hoovering them will kill them, the big buggers tend to win the fight with the hoover though, or at least the odd one that I hoover up seem to.
I swear they stare at the hoover while shouting ' come on, let's have it ' while putting boxing gloves on.

You can make spider-free zones by diffusing essential oils in places where you would not want to see spiders, like bedroom, living room. I was sceptical but it indeed works! If spider is inhabiting particular corner, putting a bit of cotton wool with few drops of essential oil close to that corner makes them leave.

Yep buy a humane spider catcher like the one linked to by a previous poster. They are brilliant.

Exactly, a horrible way to a very slow death, suffocated by the dust, etc. Just not on, really. Put a glass over, and a card under and put in garden.

Or have the guts to kill it instantly.

OP , if you were put in a bag of dust , do you think you'd survive ? Not likely .

Oh get over yourself, the spider is way more scared of you than you are of it. Understandably. And if therapy hasn’t worked then I don’t see any value in an online random person feigning sympathy.

Just be careful with this if you have cats as most essential oils are very toxic to them, particularly peppermint and tea tree.

https://www.simplicityvac.com/simply-clean/do-vacuums-kill-spiders