Katcha Battery Operated Vacuum Spider Catcher with free quality 9v battery

This product helped me get over my fear of spiders. (I couldn’t go near them) now I’m comfortable using the product no matter the spider. I repurchased a second one because my old one fell apart after lots of use. (Still works just wanted a spare to take when I move out) make sure to buy a spare battery in case it runs out unexpectedly! It’s quieter than a vac but not silent. Overall very good product!

I gave this to a friend who likes spiders 🕷 but doesn't want them in the house! The long nozzle is great for reaching in corners without standing on anything, so no chance in falling off! The suction is also very good and the spider can be shaken outside and no harm done 👍

This is a very power-hungry beast. Don't bother trying to run it off of rechargeable 9V batteries (all the ones currently on the British market put out less than 9V, including the EBL ones Amazon sells which promise more than they deliver... they're not powerful enough to even get the fan turning).If you're using this to catch the occasional wee beastie, then this doesn't matter, you probably wouldn't have the vacuum on for more than 30 seconds at a time. (It comes with a cap so you can trap the creepy-crawly and turn off the vacuum while you make your way leisurely to the bottom of your garden.) Install a quality alkaline 9V battery and replace it every few years, as needed.I bought this to deal with the ridiculous number of little black flies we have in our house this year (each a couple of millimetres long). There's some sort of minor plague in the garden, and if we have the patio doors open you can find 50 or more in our house at a time. (Ugh.)Our attempts to lure the flies into no-kill homemade traps, baited with fruit and a dash of vinegar, failed. If they can get into the trap, and you don't deliberately drown them (no thanks!) then they can find their way back out again once they've enjoyed the buffet.Our flies are big enough that they don't get sucked through the fine 1mm mesh, but get held against it like they're in suspended animation. You can catch quite a few at once if you're unlucky enough to need to. As soon as you turn the fan off, they dust themselves off, ask each other what just happened, and make their way out of the tube. If you have any that aren't leaving promptly you can give it a bit of a shake, and you can also tug the clear tube off the blue handle and shake both bits out separately.DO NOT flick the blue handle unit really hard from your patio door at night. If you do you may give the unsecured 9V battery in the handle sufficient momentum to knock the end cap off, detach itself from the wiring and go sailing off into the dark garden and the lush planting, never to be seen again. Don't ask how I know this. You may rummage in the undergrowth with a torch, disturbing countless flies, and getting gently rained on. You may even find the black end cap lodged in the stalks of your anenome japonica. But not the fresh 9V Energiser battery you paid good money for in your local Spar.If you're going to use this for extended fly catching expeditions, then I highly recommend doing what I did and cobbling together a bit more power. I bought a battery holder for 8 AA batteries (cost about £1) which had a 9V-battery-style (snap or PP3) fastener. I'm using rechargeable AA batteries which provide around 1.2V each, so the pack of 8 gets me something like 10 or 11V of sucking power. The pack doesn't fit into the handle so I'm going to secure it with duct tape, or a load of velcro, or something. I don't care if it looks a bit naff as it works. With the extra power the whole device is a godsend!The "turbo" refers to the inclusion of a narrow nozzle you can add to the end of the tube to concentrate the suction.The mesh that traps the wee beasties is at the top of the blue handle, quite close to your hand, but safely separated by plastic. I haven't used this on a house spider yet so I can't comment on the feeling of something I'm afraid of hurtling towards me at speed.Yes the box does have a really realistic drawing of a big brown house spider on it. Nominate your lest arachnophobid household member to open the Amazon packaging and immediately get rid of the box inside.When using a fresh alkeline 9V battery, this device may remind you of your long-forgotten toy hairdryer. It only has a suction mode, but the air does flow out the vents by your hand, and it sounds just the same.Since I'm tall I haven't yet bothered with using both tubes together. It will help with reaching nooks and crannies though.I found that on many surfaces it helps to tap the end of the tube against the wall/ceiling/window when you try to suck up your prey. Anything to help loosen their hold.This works on uneven surfaces, like artex, better than a cup and a bit of card, especially for small creatures, but switching to 10-11V was also really helpful for this. If your target animal is perched on something very narrow or rounded, it is harder to catch them as most of the suction power is completely squandered. That's where it's especially useful if you can nudge/jostle them into letting go with some/all of their legs.It is a bit like a lightsaber and quite fun.

It’s very useful for catching spiders

Husband broke last one we had for several years. Excellent equipment. Sounds alot quieter to previous one. Easy to assemble too. Thank you for fast delivery.

Comparing with a vacuum cleaner it's very weak, to be expectedBut it works greatI mostly use on moths and small spidersFor what it is and the quality I think it should cost £8-£10.. It feels like a kids toybut having tried it, if it ever broke I would reluctantly buy again

We bought one years ago (purple one faded in the sunlight but still going strong) and recently bought the second one. They are great tools to use in the morning to hoover up dead flies that have died overnight in our conservatory and to hoover up live ones in the kitchen before cooking. They are also wide enough not to harm itinerant bees and wasps that have strayed into the house during the day. I have even used one to hoover up bits from the carpet when there is not enough to warrant getting the hoover out. It would be nice if they came with a narrow, flexible hose attachment to poke into awkward corners.

Having discovered a large number of those spindley spiders with tiny bodies and long legs hiding all around my house, and being fed up with trying not to squash them as I ejected them by hand, only to find they had somehow escaped before I got to drop them out of the window.... I decided this gadget was with a try.Well it works! I’m not sure how brilliantly it would cope with an enormous hairy beast as the suction isn’t that string, but I suppose if you want to be humane, it can’t be too strong or they’d end up stuck to the base.I had great fun collecting spiders and then decided that a fly might also be added to the mix (imagining scenes of carnage as the fly joined the 8 spiders all climbing over each other at the bottom of the tube). I have worked out that by slowly moving in slightly to the side of a fly, they don’t seem particularly phased. On this occasion, the fly entered the mix but.... didn’t get eaten. In fact I had great fun trying to catch the fly as it climbed out of the top of the tube and squash it before emptying the spiders into the garden.So, in a nutshell... it works but may not be so effective for massive spiders. It’s easy to use. I didn’t like the extension nozzle provided as it seemed that the suction was somehow reduced (not sure how) so didn’t use it and I am now spider hunting because it’s humane fun!