Q&A for How to Catch a Spider

There are no spiders that fly.

Outside, look on plants and tree branches. Inside, look around the basement of your house if you have one.

If the spider hides, it will survive. If a jumping spider lands on a surface similar to its color, it virtually disappears.

Take a jar and put it over the spider. Slide the jar up, causing the spider to fall inside. Be careful though -- the spider could fall on you!

Place food, like a dead fly, outside of the funnel web to attract the spiders' attention and lure them out of the web.

You can catch one outside of your house, on the walls or corners of it and in your garden if you have one.

Take a jar with a lid and poke holes in the top, take the lid off, put the jar around the spider, take a stick, lift the jar a tiny bit so the stick can fit in and hit the spider into the jar.

There are about 40,000 spider types in the world, so there's no way to name them all, but a few of my personal favorites include white-tailed spiders, jumping spiders, tarantulas, and orbweavers. You can find longer, more detailed lists on lots of different spider-related websites.

Tap gently on the tunnel, and see if the spider will come out. Then, use a small paintbrush to gently put it In a jar.

Gently hold together the leaf, then quickly put it into a jar.

The only way to improve your odds is to look more. The more you look, the greater the chance you will find them.

Not really, as it won't be very secure and if you have a daytime spider it will miss the sun.

As long as it has food, clean water, and room to crawl and hide, it will be happy. Spiders are very easy to please.

Get a ladder and scoop it into a cup or jar or use a vacuum cleaner attachment to get it.

They eat flies, butterflies, beetles and sometimes each other. There are many videos online of stick spiders feeding.

Yes, of course. Spiders see people as predators and generally don't want to be caught.

Yes, you can catch a spider anywhere and it will suffice.

Normally they are on the sides of houses or other outdoor structures and like to come out at night to sit on their web for food.

There are many different types of beetles. Ground beetles wander around on the ground during daylight hours and can also be found on or under rotting wood, scarab beetles are found near fruit, especially rotting fruit, whirligig beetles and diving beetles are found in freshwater habitats, jewel beetles are in tropical habitats, longhorn beetles are on trees or rotting wood, most beetle larvae feed on rotting wood, fireflies are also beetles, they like to be in hot, humid climates, devil’s coach horses are beetles that live underground in moist climates, blister beetles like hot, humid climates as well. So, you have many different possible places to live, depending on where you live.

It all depends on how many entry points you have and whether you have a lot of insects, it's warm outside and the spiders can find good hiding spots. Most of the spiders you see indoors have evolved to become "house spiders"; while outdoor spiders may sometimes come in seeking prey, most will remain outdoors to hunt.

Generally spiders will seek a tight corner if they feel threatened. Approach very slowly from behind, if you can.

It will catch its own food, so it will not die. If you are worried, you can kill a fly and leave it where you last saw the spider.

This is probably a dolomedes tenebrosus, or the dark fishing spider. Try to put a large box on it, and then slide a large piece of thin card under to keep it in the box. Flip it over, holding the card firmly in place, then place the spider outdoors.

Catch flies by swiping a net at bushes. then, put flies or insects you catch in his enclosure. Also, make sure he has water.