OK, that's a very US joke. Lucky for you, I read a lot especially about Woody Guthrie. Cute image, though.
Only trouble is, have you ever stepped on one of those traps? Eeeaarguugh... especially in the middle of the night when you wander out in the dark for a drink of water.
One Easter Sunday a couple of years ago, we got a distraught phone call from a women we know at church - she had rats and had called the exterminators in right before the Easter long weekend (goes to Tuesday in our neck of the woods). These blokes had put down bait stations (fair enough) but been considerate enough to not put any baits where the woman's small dog and cats could get to the bait. So instead, they put down sticky traps.
Now this house is like a lot of beach-side houses in Australia - up on stilts, but with the underneath area also open living space. A sort of undercroft, where people spend time in summer and store things like surfboards, beach umbrellas and barbecues. With a small kitchen and a granny flat. And the undercroft was alive with rats. And this woman and her daughter were animal-loving vegetarians.
So here it is, early morning Easter Sunday, we were wondering if the traps had caught the Easter Bunny or something, she was so upset. But no, they had caught - rats. Baby ones. Cute baby ones. Please could we come and make it all go away?
So husband & I went down there, making sure to leave our squeamish brats at home. We comforted the old woman and her daughter (we could hear the hysterical screams all up the driveway) and then went down to the undercroft and looked for sticky rat traps. Very similar to your spider traps, and VERY sticky. I did step in one - they had left one right out in the middle of the floor. Of course, no rats there - rats creep around the walls. We found two loaded traps, in the undercroft kitchen, next to the stove. We had to kill the baby rats ourselves (not pleasant) and then dispose of the trap in the compost bin. We then (at the woman's request) collected up all the remaining sticky traps and took them away.
What a charming way to begin our Easter celebrations, of new life!
And on the Tuesday morning when businesses opened, the old woman was on the phone making a complaint about the rat exterminator company, to the RSPCA. Good on her!
I think on Tuesday I was STILL trying to get the sticky trap gunk off my foot...
Marg