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I always leave spiders alive in my apartment. I've lived in two. In both cases, when I first moved in I had bugs. After leaving spiders alive, I then had almost no bugs.

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I was vacuuming spider webs in my house today because I had guests visiting which always triggers a flurry of cleaning.

I avoided vacuuming the spiders themselves though, those little dudes are helping us out.

Well, if you leave your vacuum hose lying flat on the ground after turning it off, you can have a fun time watching the spiders march out after a while, should you accidentally catch a few.

I remember reading a question about this somewhere, where it was stated that because of the massive turbulence inside a vacuum, there was very little chance of a spider surviving something like that!

I believe you, but I've actually seen it with my own eyes. Quite probably the survivability depends on the type of spider...

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