Can big spiders crawl back out after you've hoovered them up?

weemammy · 10-02-2011 2:05pm #1

I'm wondering about this, as the Giant House Spiders seem to be tough enough to resist the sucktion of the hoover, and you have to really batter them with a magazine before they finally lay still.
A while ago I've even flushed one down the plughole in the bath, only to find him there a few hours later all dryed up and in exactly the same spot, honest to God!
Last night I hoovered one up, and it was a whopper! I wouldn't be surprised to see it emerging back out of the hoover with revenge on it's mind :pac:
But is this possible? Does anyone know?
attached is also a picture of one of these lads

irish_goat · 10-02-2011 2:06pm

They probably get stuck in the dust/dirt of the hoover bag and possibly suffocate.

whiteboy · 10-02-2011 2:08pm

I'd sooner find away to put it outside, it's cruel to do what you're doing!

Sephiroth_dude · 10-02-2011 2:09pm

Jesus............I hope not :eek:

Kiera · 10-02-2011 2:10pm

By the time you go get the hoover the little fúcker will be well gone. Just get him there and then!

SafeSurfer · 10-02-2011 2:10pm

Yes and when they crawl back out they are very very angry.

Mahatma coat · 10-02-2011 2:12pm

:pac: Ah Jaysus, thats not a big spider, theres a Huntsman here behind the fridge that'd eat him aas a snack.

mariaf24 · 10-02-2011 2:12pm

They eat all the dust and other materials in the hoover (bag) and continue to grow and thrive for many weeks and months while all the time plotting their revenge.
They mate with other spiders they meet in the hoover and produce many many baby spiders. Eventually the hoover bag becomes over crowded, often with hundreds of spiders who have now grown 10 times their original size, forcing them to return to the rooms of your house.

Monty Burnz · 10-02-2011 2:13pm

It's as easy to put them out the back door or whatever. If you've no particular tool to do it, pop a small flower pot or a cup or something over it, then slide a sheet of paper slowly under it. Turn the whole lot around and the spider is now safely in the container. Fire him out the door where he will continue keeping down the number of annoying flies and such.

cruiser178 · 10-02-2011 2:14pm

Op a spider that size doesn't have to crawl the whole way back out,he can just open the top of the hoover,jump out and batter ya.

mikom · 10-02-2011 2:15pm

weemammy wrote: »

Can big spiders crawl back out after you've hoovered the up?

Honestly, who hoovers Ulster protestants these days?

Sephiroth_dude · 10-02-2011 2:15pm

mariaf24 wrote: »

They eat all the dust and other materials in the hoover (bag) and continue to grow and thrive for many weeks and months while all the time plotting their revenge.
They mate with other spiders they meet in the hoover and produce many many baby spiders. Eventually the hoover bag becomes over crowded, often with hundreds of spiders who have now grown 10 times their original size, forcing them to return to the rooms of your house.

*loads shotgun*

weemammy · 10-02-2011 2:15pm

whiteboy wrote: »

I'd sooner find away to put it outside, it's cruel to do what you're doing!

I know what u mean, I feel guilty doing it, but you probably don't understand what it's like to be really really terrified of them!
If my OH is home, he'll deal with it, he just picks the up and puts the outside, but there's no way I'd touch those things.
Last night, thankfully the hoover was nearby, and the spider was high up, near the ceiling.
If they're on the floor I'd just give them a smack.
They are just huge! suddenly u see this dark shadow running across the floor :eek:

Fremen · 10-02-2011 2:16pm

1/ Hoover up spider, allow it to lay eggs in hoover bag

2/ Wait for eggs to hatch

3/ Set hoover to blow instead of suck

4/ ???

5/ Profit!

mariaf24 · 10-02-2011 2:16pm

Apparenty they enjoy the soothing noise and heat of the hoover also.

Plumbers · 10-02-2011 2:18pm

It's bad luck to kill a spider!!!

Invite my mum round, she'll collect em in matchboxes and bring em to Bingo with her. Wins every time!

ShooterSF · 10-02-2011 2:19pm

Monty Burnz wrote: »

It's as easy to put them out the back door or whatever. If you've no particular tool to do it, pop a small flower pot or a cup or something over it, then slide a sheet of paper slowly under it. Turn the whole lot around and the spider is now safely in the container. Fire him out the door where he will continue keeping down the number of annoying flies and such.

All trespassers are dealt with ... severely.

biko · 10-02-2011 2:20pm

My cousin has a friend whose girlfriend hoovered up a spider.
2 months later she was bitten while sleeping by a spider and it had laid eggs in her face. The spider babies then ate her face.
True story.

weemammy · 10-02-2011 2:20pm

mikom wrote: »

Honestly, who hoovers Ulster protestants these days?

HUH??

I'm not an Ulster protestant if that's what u think:mad:
Not that it has anything to do with this topic

MistyCheese · 10-02-2011 2:21pm

I was cleaning out a mate's vacuum cleaner, it was blocked up so bad that there was crap backed up in the hose. Anyway, as I'm pulling stuff out of the hose, out pops a live mouse. And the guy moved into his flat three months previously! I never knew mice could live in vacuum cleaners.

Monty Burnz · 10-02-2011 2:22pm

biko wrote: »

My cousin has a friend whose girlfriend hoovered up a spider.
2 months later she was bitten while sleeping by a spider and it had laid eggs in her face. The spider babies then ate her face.
True story.

It was a HUGE FREAKIN' RAT!

Bendihorse · 10-02-2011 2:23pm

I don't like spiders, they are about the only thing Im freaked out by. Don't mind mice etc, my theory is at least you can hear/see them easier than spiders so they cant creep up on you. I don't like killing them all the same...

But, after my house was invaded by those masshooovie house spiders on steriods, I decided to employ the following rule -On my turf (ie in the house) I can brownbread them without guilt, but when on their own turf let them lie. (At the start I would throw the feckers out the back door but I was convinced the same bastards were coming back in time and time again)

jester77 · 10-02-2011 2:24pm

Watch out for eggs!! I did this once with fruit flies, a few months later I was replacing the bag (over full and burst) and the innards of the vacuum cleaner was crawling with maggots, nasty mess to clean up!

memomy · 10-02-2011 2:24pm

I can unfortunately confirm that they most certainly do

Last summer I found a horrible big nasty fella crawling across my kitchen floor and as I happened to have the hover out at the time I had him sucked up and that was that.

Unfortunately for me the hover bag was very full at the time due to some DIY having been taking place around the time so two days later as I opened the hover and took off the hover bag I was met by the same spider crawling out towards me.

Needless to say i pretty much shat myself

orourkeda · 10-02-2011 2:24pm

Man up.

It's only a spider.

Spiders are great.

orourkeda · 10-02-2011 2:25pm

Bendihorse wrote: »

I don't like spiders, they are about the only thing Im freaked out by. Don't mind mice etc, my theory is at least you can hear/see them easier than spiders so they cant creep up on you. I don't like killing them all the same...

But, after my house was invaded by those masshooovie house spiders on steriods, I decided to employ the following rule -On my turf (ie in the house) I can brownbread them without guilt, but when on their own turf let them lie. (At the start I would throw the feckers out the back door but I was convinced the same bastards were coming back in time and time again)

Why are you freaked by spiders?

J. Marston · 10-02-2011 2:26pm

Murderer.

cock robin · 10-02-2011 2:26pm

weemammy Hoovering spiders is a very bad thing. The actual vacum creates perfect conditions for the spider to grow Larger if fact Huge. Dont be suprised if you see legs emerge through the side of the hoover and for it then to chase you and hoover your scaredy fraidy ass all over the house till you end up inside the hoover with the spider.

orourkeda · 10-02-2011 2:27pm

People kill spiders.

Same people will cry, bitch and moan when a dog gets arse raped.

Why the discrepancy?

memomy · 10-02-2011 2:28pm

Spiders are ****. they should be made wear aluminous leg warmers so that we can at least see them coming.

orourkeda · 10-02-2011 2:28pm

biko wrote: »

My cousin has a friend whose girlfriend hoovered up a spider.
2 months later she was bitten while sleeping by a spider and it had laid eggs in her face. The spider babies then ate her face.
True story.

When did your cousin sleep with a spider?

Pics?

weemammy · 10-02-2011 2:29pm

Bendihorse wrote: »

I don't like spiders, they are about the only thing Im freaked out by. Don't mind mice etc, my theory is at least you can hear/see them easier than spiders so they cant creep up on you. I don't like killing them all the same...

But, after my house was invaded by those masshooovie house spiders on steriods, I decided to employ the following rule -On my turf (ie in the house) I can brownbread them without guilt, but when on their own turf let them lie. (At the start I would throw the feckers out the back door but I was convinced the same bastards were coming back in time and time again)

Exactly! I run a kill on sight policy in this house, and I also think come back in when you throw them out.

orourkeda · 10-02-2011 2:29pm

memomy wrote: »

Spiders are ****. they should be made wear aluminous leg warmers so that we can at least see them coming.

Spiders are brilliant.

orourkeda · 10-02-2011 2:30pm

weemammy wrote: »

Exactly! I run a kill on sight policy in this house, and I also think come back in when you throw them out.

You should start killing cats too.

You'd be providing a valuable service then.

weemammy · 10-02-2011 2:31pm

memomy wrote: »

I can unfortunately confirm that they most certainly do Last summer I found a horrible big nasty fella crawling across my kitchen floor and as I happened to have the hover out at the time I had him sucked up and that was that.

Unfortunately for me the hover bag was very full at the time due to some DIY having been taking place around the time so two days later as I opened the hover and took off the hover bag I was met by the same spider crawling out towards me.

Needless to say i pretty much shat myself

OMG!!! I would've died!
That's why my hoover is in the shed now :cool:

derfderf · 10-02-2011 2:33pm

Mahatma coat wrote: »

:pac: Ah Jaysus, thats not a big spider, theres a Huntsman here behind the fridge that'd eat him aas a snack.

That's not a huntsman, that's a spoon.

Ross_Mahon · 10-02-2011 2:35pm

I threw one of them into the fish tank, And he ran along the water avoiding been eaten, Then escaped the closed fish tank, So i gave him his freedom for that

memomy · 10-02-2011 2:40pm

orourkeda wrote: »

Spiders are brilliant.

they would be, if the wore aluminous leg warmers.

HooterSnout · 10-02-2011 2:49pm

Spiders are brilliant. Face your fears and put them outside. It's not cool to kill them. Same with slugs in my damp bathroom.

Lu Tze · 10-02-2011 2:50pm

Ì don't mind spiders at all to be honest. When cleaning I used to operate a culling system, whereby i would always leave a certain amount of them behind, as I found flies and such things far more annoying.

Any room I have ever lived in I have always made sure that one spider/web survives any clean ups, during fly season anyway.

weemammy · 10-02-2011 2:52pm

Here's another one I had at my previous address.

ejmaztec · 10-02-2011 3:05pm

weemammy wrote: »

Here's another one I had at my previous address.

Are you sure they weren't rogue pubic hairs caught in a draught?

smokingman · 10-02-2011 3:09pm

weemammy · 10-02-2011 3:13pm

smokingman wrote: »

LOL

hatrickpatrick · 10-02-2011 3:20pm

I hate spiders as much as the next guy but would you not just chase him outside or something?
I always feel kinda sorry for the poor bastards, they are without doubt the most persecuted species of insect in human history. We as a race have waged a totally unjustified vendetta against them for many, many years,one which probably leaves them feeling that we really are just a shower of absolute wánkers...

And, you know, one day they might rise up and decide to take revenge. Think of "The Birds" but with gigantic swarms of spiders instead.

By the way here is a video of myself and some friends 'bravely' dealing with a spider a few years ago in Kerry. We didn't want to kill him, the idea was to throw him out the window, but when one of the lads got stuck under the bed and the spider escaped in all the confusion, epic chaos unfolded like never before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H6RVXgjsDU

Bendihorse · 10-02-2011 3:24pm

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

I hate spiders as much as the next guy but would you not just chase him outside or something?
I always feel kinda sorry for the poor bastards, they are without doubt the most persecuted species of insect in human history. We as a race have waged a totally unjustified vendetta against them for many, many years,one which probably leaves them feeling that we really are just a shower of absolute wánkers...

And, you know, one day they might rise up and decide to take revenge. Think of "The Birds" but with gigantic swarms of spiders instead.

I honestly blame my irrational fear of spiders on the film 'Arachnophobia'. That scarred me as a kid.

Tabnabs · 10-02-2011 3:28pm

OP, if you listen very carefully at night, you'll hear the tap tap tap of the spider's hobnail boots as it scuttles around inside the vacuum cleaner living off the dirt you sucked up. :eek:

CreepingDeath · 10-02-2011 3:37pm

memomy wrote: »

I can unfortunately confirm that they most certainly do Last summer I found a horrible big nasty fella crawling across my kitchen floor and as I happened to have the hover out at the time I had him sucked up and that was that.

Yeah, same thing happened me but the hoover was partially blocked and when I turned it off, the spider dropped out and ran towards the kitchen.

I swear it was heading to the cutlery drawer to get a knife.

Jaxxy · 10-02-2011 3:50pm

Ah why can't you just get a glass and a piece of paper/cardboard? Glass over the spider (pint glasses work best for the extra wriggle room and you don't want to catch their legs) and then slide the paper beneath the rim. Walk to the door or window and release. I don't see why you have to kill them just because they're in your house. If you don't want them there just put them outside.

I love spiders though and I love the way they keep your room/house relatively creepy-crawly free. I've had a Giant House Spider called Gok around my wardrobe area for months now, and I'm fairly sure I've seen another one scurry in behind the fridge in the kitchen. I haven't given him a name yet though since I've only met him once.

emanresu · 10-02-2011 3:52pm

weemammy wrote: »

HUH??

I'm not an Ulster protestant if that's what u think:mad:
Not that it has anything to do with this topic

It was supposed to be a joke, based on a typo in the title, which is now corrected. The word "the" was used instead of "them". I don't know if UP is a common abbreviation, but I have never heard of it anyway.

mikom wrote: »

Honestly, who hoovers Ulster protestants these days?

weemammy wrote: »

Can big spiders crawl back out after you've hoovered the up?

--Kaiser-- · 10-02-2011 3:53pm

House spiders can't survive outdoors so putting them outside is as good as killing them

Can big spiders crawl back out after you've hoovered them up?

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