If you live in the countryside — or anywhere that’s not hermetically sealed (like an ultra-new block of flats), the chances are you get visited by spiders, large and small.
When we used to live in Marlow, our cottage was beset with spiders — especially when it had been raining. They used to come in for the shelter.
I am not scared of spiders, per se.
It’s the fright that gets me.
You know when you’re sitting down, relaxing, watching television or having a conversation or doing something relatively sedate and then — boom — out walks a massive 50p-coin-sized critter? It’s not doing anyone any harm. It’s just a shock.
And then I’m compelled to do something about it, especially if it’s huge and it keeps on running toward me.
My preference is to remove it from my presence humanely. I’d rather avoid killing them.
One day my wife was — as the Americans call it — freaking out about a huge spider and there was no sensible, easy way to catch it. I was ordered to kill it. That was a bit of a challenging affair given my shoe didn’t quite ‘fit’ the uneven weird corners of the bathroom in our old place.
So I resolved to sort this out. I decided I needed a better way of handling the issue. So I went online to Amazon and searched for: Spider Catcher
Here’s what popped up:
It’s a plastic wand-type thing that has extendable bristles on the end. Stick them over the spider and let them retract to pick up the spider. Then dump it outside or out the window as necessary.
That’s the concept.
In practice it works perfectly. Absolutely perfectly.
There’re £9.13 each. I bought two!
Money well spent in my opinion.
You do have to be reasonably quick if you’re trying to catch a running spider — and it’s not that effective on tiny ones. But I’ve never, ever had a missed result (sometimes after a few attempts on my part).
Even if you normally just stamp on them — the Spider Catcher removes the issue of having to go and find some kitchen towel to wipe/pick up the remains.
Thoroughly recommended.
