Now this is a spider

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Take a look at this.

Now the body is the size of a wasp. Surely this is not a normal common spider in switzerland. I have been here 6 years and never seen anything of the sort.

I am not scared of spiders but there is not a chance that i am going to attempt to get rid of this thing!

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Shaving cream. Problem solved.

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Vacuum cleaner is the clean and easy way to remove of it.

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I found this a while back.

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You rather live with it?

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Tegenaria duellica , and yes, very common in Switzerland as well as the rest of northern Europe.

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orb weaver. highly beneficial. usually they prefer to stay outdoors though.

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Ok, but you do realise that the vacuum cleaner does not kill spiders, it will crawl back out at some point in my flat

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Nope, i would rather close my doors and leavee it in the terrace, being careful every time i leave the house not to let it in

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Its easy.

Or your biggest shoe.

Shoe it first, then vacuum!

One like that'll get rid of some other pesky critters- maybe you do leave it alone.... The cold will get it sooner or later.

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"Shaving creaming" the spider immobilizes it so you can shoe/vaccuum/handshake with it.

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Think i would use the shaving foam to shave the stubble off its legs first

But you would probably get around 70 years bad luck for killing something that size

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you can always relocate the spider, the shaving cream eventually wears off. I don't think it would die of shaving cream poisioning...

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Oh, I though that was just for "hairy" spiders...

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That's not a spider,

THIS:

is a spider!

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Where is your God now????

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If you aren't going to trap and release him, then the death must be sure and brutal.

Spiders are extremely tough little b@stards. Couple months ago a ~2cm one was scampering across a work table; snatched him up with tweezers and dropped him in a beaker of acetone. Acetone. He ran around the perimeter of the bottom of the beaker for a good 10 seconds... I had to admire him so I pulled him out, dropped his groggy self on a paper towel and took him outside. A few minutes later he got up and marched off. Like a boss.

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Now that's pimpin'...

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Motorcycle helmets are of no use, BTW, in trapping spiders.

Love the comment, "nope, Chuck Testa" .