Don't vacuum spiders

[snopes]

Comment: I've heard several times that using a vacuum cleaner to suck up
bugs (mostly spiders in MY case!) is ineffective as it doesn't kill the
bugs. Rumor has it that they survive the trip through the vacuum hose &
live on in the vacuum bag, reproducing, only to come crawling out en masse
when you least expect them. True or false? Am I back to messy, smelly,
staining sprays?????

[Lainie]

Note to self: Just in case, get J to empty the shopvac.

[Chloe]

Legend has it my grandmother once vacuumed up a swarm of bees, which later escaped in the middle of the night.

I use a small handvac on a setting low enough to have the ants and flies survive, then take them outside.

[Lainie]

Which explains all the dizzy, reeling flies and ants outside Chloe's house.

[Lachrymose]

Oh, Anty Em!

[Seaboe Muffinchucker]

I suspect the spiders I vacuum up (which I don't deliberately do) suffocate in all the dust in my vacuum bag. Which is to say that I don't change the bag often enough...

Seaboe