Spiders

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AIBU to ask if spiders can crawl back out of hoovers?
I have a huge and highly irrational fear of spiders, genuinely can't deal with them. Came down this morning to a HUGE, black hairy spider on the wall. Even DP thought it was a little scary and hoovered it up (he'd usually dispose of it outside in a glass). Anyway, DP heads to work soon and the question lingers in my head... can they come out of vacuum cleaners?😂🤦🏼‍♀️

At the very least it's going to be a bit stunned. Can you ask your husband to empty the hoover into the bin outside?

Hmmm someone else will come along with the answer but if I were you I’d be tempted to spray raid or similar into the hoover noozle

God i hope not!!

Nope! I used to sit on the sofa next to my Hoover in one house as the daddy long legs freaked me out- there were hundreds! The hose used to get them in an instant and they never came back out!

I hate spiders too, always too scared to catch or kill them. Leave someone else to deal with them. 😁

I really wouldn't risk it. It depends how full the bag is, how healthy the spider is (I know, way too invested, but I'm in Oz, and dammit, this stuff matters).

I would move the Hoover near a door or window, and briskly knock the tube outside. If nothing appears, take the whole thing outside pull it apart (poss wearing a hazmat suit), and tip all the contents of the bag into the dustbin... or bin the whole bag if it's anywhere near full.

Then leave the vacuum outside for the rest of the day.

Then I would give it house room.

Never use a Hoover for spiders. You just don't know where they'll end up.

Hth.

Sorry, but they absolutely can get back out again. Years ago my mum hoovered one up and a couple of days later this very dusty spider walked across the room...definitely the same one. Get DH to empty the bag/cylinder/whatever. My DH uses the handheld to get them, as it sucks them up and you can then just tip them out of the drum into the garden, keeping eyes on all the time...

Yes they can come crawl back out again. Leave it outside or if it’s going to rain into a room far away from you with the door shut.

I hold hope that the Dyson cyclone thingy just smashes them all to pieces. There are 2 in my hand held at the moment - first time I have ever hoovered a spider and I get 2 fucking huge ones (I am in my 50s!!).

The hoover has been back in the cupboard ever since, DH comes home tomorrow, he can deal with it then!

Sorry, I know that was no help!

I highly recommend a spider awareness course if spiders are causing you a lot of anxiety. My daughter and I were sceptical but gave it a go (we didn’t feel we had much to lose if I’m honest) and it’s transformed our lives, at this time of year especially - I can’t even begin to tell you how much we dreaded house spider season. We went to Bristol zoo but they also run them at London zoo and possibly others.

To answer your question - I doubt it but we used to leave the vacuum going a while, spray fly spray up the tube and then I would put a bag over the nozzle for good measure! Thankfully I can now catch them in a glass and put them outside.

I think the trick is to carry on hoovering afterwards, I hoover up all kinds of shit in the hope the spider will get knocked out. I have been known to block the end of the hoover and make DH empty it.

Sadly another one here who echoes they can and do come out. My mum once hooverd up what I believe to be by her description a 'giant house spider' (Google it) and it came back out of the hoover alive and kicking when she emptied it. I'd leave the hoover running for as long as possible before emptying. For future reference I've heard hairspray is good. I'm non PC and terrified of the big bastards so I'm a 'killer' not a putter outsider so don't take my advice if you don't want them dead.

Stuff kitchen roll in the Hoover tube and put the Hoover outside.

Far away.

Spider awareness course?

What wisdom did they impart?

I understand that some people have a phobia of spiders (just as others have a phobia of buttons or spaghetti or other similarly inoffensive things). But I worry about the way it seems socially acceptable for women (just look at the number of posts saying "get DH to deal with it") to be afraid of spiders, as if it were a necessary proof of femininity, and to react immediately by trying to kill or harm them.

I can't help thinking that if people just shut up about their fear of spiders, we'd have more chance of the next generation having a lower proportion of the next generation having a phobia about them, and that would be a good thing, surely?

I got sent on a spider course at London zoo with my work.
I failed dismally.
I'm brave enough to Hoover them now which I never used to be.
And I don't faint when I see one either
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They can come out

I am very phobic of spiders (actually phobic not just frightened before anyone asks. Tried a few things to get over it but genuinely can't )

We have a dyson - if DH hoovers a spider up, I make sure he empties the hoover straight away, in an outside bin preferably the neighbours

I was absolutely convinced for years that they climbed up plug holes too! Used to go around plugging the plugs in to stop them DH tells me that can't climb up plug holes

@mereDintoOfpandiculation spaghetti and buttons don't move!

Had the most ginormous spider in my bath, was like a saucer 😱😱

He11y

They can crawl out but I've only seen it happen a couple of times. Usually I think they get crushed inside.

I highly recommend a spider awareness course if spiders are causing you a lot of anxiety. I've been on the Bristol Zoo one twice, once with once without the hypnotist! Bearing in mind that the only way I have ever killed a spider was when one ran over my hand, on the floor, and I threw up on it. Spider drowned, I fainted (parents not amused) this has been a lifelong phobia, one I don't want, one that does not fit with the rest of my independent, self sufficient persona.

Nobody else in my family has a fear of spiders and neither I nor my parents can remember anything spider related that happened when I was little. Quite the opposite, I loved finding frogs, grass snakes, caterpillars, bugs, etc. Apparently I even took worms for a ride on my bike! I have no idea why it started!

I can just about cope, as in not run away screaming, but the fact that I understand what my triggers are and how the spider bears no fault or grudge, doesn't stop the fight/flight response. At 50 something years of age my ability to run, lack of clear eyesight and plain, simple 'Fuck You' attitude is slowly winning the battle.

I will also 'admit' we have a Dyson purely because of its cyclone thingy. The lack of spider escape route is a very comforting thought!

Spider phobia has nothing to do with femininity and its not learned.
I've taken a desensitisation course, and it only works up to a point, because you can't completely extinguish a phobia.

@mereDintoOfpandiculation spaghetti and buttons don't move! But the fear is just as unjustified in terms of the harm they can do to us in the UK. So why do we seem to be so keen on talking about it and making it seem a normal reaction? Especially in women?

Spider phobia has nothing to do with femininity and its not learned. Absolutely. But I don't believe that everyone expressing a fear of spiders has a phobia, a good deal of it is a learned response, and it's more common (or more acceptable to express it) amongst women. So let's try and reduce the learned fear, so that the only people killing spiders are the phobics. Spiders are a long way from being the most harmful creatures that regularly come into houses.