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[FlowerBear]

I got a small bissell vaccumn to sweep up an occasional spider or earwig or hard shell bug or anything.  Do you feel that if you sweep a bug up in a vaccumn it will not get out or stay alive? I dont want to invest the cost of the bug vac.  I have this small light weight vaccumn and hoping that it will work to get a small bug now and then.  I dont have many but in case I see one, I want to sweep it up.  It has the little clear cup that you empty.  I would empty it outside I guess unless its very late at night!  But cant if it is has dust or stuff that is swept up like any other vaccumn.  I dont want chemicals inside so that is not an option.  Im not saying theres alot of bugs lol just for an occasional one is the sweeping it up a good option?

[MalteseMomma]

lol  @FlowerBear  

I do hope someone answers your question,I have always wondered the same thing.I think they do  NOT  die.

I  would be so happy to read they do   

[NickNack]

My guess would be that they don't die.  I've wondered about this, too.

[ValuSkr]

I would pick it up, using a tissue if necessary, and escort it outside.  Unless Im in a bad mood, in which case it might be squished.  But your idea - using a dedicated hand vac for iinsects - isn't bad.    I doubt the act of vacuuming itself would harm the bug.  But I think you'd have to empty the cup as soon as possible or the insect would pass.

[qualitygal]

If I haven't stepped on it, I get a papertowel and smush it then.  Outside, they can live, in my house, no way.

[novamc1]

Very low tolerance for bugs here.  Inside OR outside.  Just finished sweeping away the beginning of a wasp nest outside my kitchen door (just like I had to last year, our first year in this house.)

Also saw my first little lizard of the year outside of our screened porch/patio area only about an hour ago......saw one last year scurrying out of our garage. 

We didn't have lizards where I lived before, but they don't worry me so much.  I understand they eat other bugs, so that is absolutely FINE with me!!  I hope they find a gourmet feast before the feast makes its way into my house.

We get tiny spiders along the baseboards, and I am now (instead of smushing them in a damp paper towel) just running my handheld DYSON and hoping they eventually die before I need to empty the cup.

[SHOPR]

LOL this is the stuff that causes me bug nightmares! 

If possible to stuff a crumpled up paper towel into the suction nozzle until some later time when you want to take it outside to empty, I think that would successfully trap living bugs inside the vacuum. 

I think spiders probably live through being vacuumed.  They scare me.  LOL

[CelticCrafter]

When I use my dust buster to catch a bug, I make sure I leave it running thinking that will kill it or at least stun it enough so it can't get back out.

[fthunt]

If a bug is within reach - grab a tissue and FLUSH it down the toilet.  No way is that bugger going to return.  Spider on the ceiling - vac cleaner grabs him.  He won't live long in the cup without food. 

[SahmIam]

If you vacuum them up and there is already a layer of dirt/dust in the bag/container; they die due to suffocation ( I presume). If you have nothing in there, they have no way to get to food so, they die. Or maybe it's due to no air flow.  

All I know is I vacuum up bugs all the time; huge spiders to stink bugs to flies to whatever. I have a bagless upright and I can SEE that they are dead, often by the time I've turned off my vacuum. 

Of course, hitting them with my broom yelling "DIE DIE DIE" works too but I usually save that for big things crawling on the floor with no vacuum in sight.....