answer:Be careful, AC. Sometimes they are not dead. One time we were renting a house that had a miniature version of the house in the backyard as a playhouse. My husband noticed that the electric light fixture was filled with curled-up, dead wolf spiders. Knowing my arachnophobia, he unscrewed the light fixture and emptied the dead spiders into the dirt of the yard. Realizing that I would not like to see a pile of large, dead wolf spiders either, he kicked some loose dirt over them. He turned around and replaced the light fixture back. When he turned back around, imagine his surprise when the heap of dirt began moving and spider legs began emerging. The spiders revived and scurried off. He said that even though he is not afriad of spiders, it was rather horrifying seeing them sticking their legs out of the dirt and standing up!