My spider problem and insect death match

[DBowling]

I posted here a few months ago when i first moved in about having tons of spiders in my apartment. They are all over. Its pretty bad i guess, but i deal with it because they are mostly daddy long legs, and they take care of my ant problem somewhat.

Yesterday i found a really large spider, not a daddy long leg, but a fat one. He was just chilling in my hallway, on the carpet. I wasnt sure how i wanted to kill him, so i placed a clear plastic cup over him to keep him in place.

Later i decided i would add a daddy long leg spider under the cup. They scraped at eachother when they touched, but mostly kept their distance. Not quite the death match i anticipated. So i added another, larger D.L.L. Still nothing.

I thought maybe they were hungry, so i found some ants, got them to climb on a piece of paper and slid them under the cup. The ants climbed on the wall of the cup, and avoided the spiders completely. What sounded like a great deathmatch ended up quite boring and non violent. So i left them under the cup until i could figure out what to do next.

But when i woke up today, i was surprised to find that all of the spiders were gone! And there were dozens of ants feasting on their carcases. This was pretty crazy because i only inserted 3-5 ants into the cup. I didnt know at the time, but the ants could crawl under and outside of the cup, and somebody must have gotten backup.

Anyway, a waste of your time, i know. But i was pretty surprised the ants came out the victor, when they were supposed to be a snack for the contestants.