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.

[Jeff W]

I'm not surprised that the ants were victorious.

Ants are killing machines.

P.S. Did you quit playing poker? I haven't seen you on IRC in ages. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

[Dead]

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I'm not surprised that the ants were victorious.

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Me either. We get a lot of ants outside our pool during the summer, and those little fuckers pack a big punch. Many times we will see hundreds of ants carrying around these large dead spiders on their backs.

[Popinjay]

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I'm not surprised that the ants were victorious.

Ants are killing machines.

P.S. Did you quit playing poker? I haven't seen you on IRC in ages. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Who are you on IRC JeffW. Same with DBowling?!

[Sponger15SB]

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Who are you on IRC JeffW. Same with DBowling?!

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They post on another IRC channel, not the 2+2 one

[Jeff W]

My nick is Jeff_W or JeffW. I don't hang out in #twoplustwo much, because it doesn't seem oriented towards posting hands and discussing strategy/etc.

Me and DBowling often hang out in another channel where the main focus is posting plain text hands and discussing them.

[DBowling]

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My nick is DBowling or Devon. I don't hang out in #twoplustwo much, because it doesn't seem oriented towards posting hands and discussing strategy/etc.

Me and JeffW often hang out in another channel where the main focus is posting plain text hands and discussing them.

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FYP

[Popinjay]

may I ask what channel this is?

[DBowling]

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P.S. Did you quit playing poker? I haven't seen you on IRC in ages. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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i was planning on playing last night, but the spider thing was more interesting [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] ill be on later tonight, after i get some dinner. I woke up just 3 hours ago [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

[Dead]

Daddy longlegs are not spiders. They are often mistaken for spiders, but they are not capable of producing webs, therefore they cannot be spiders.

Just thought I would point out that misconception.

Regardless, daddy longlegs are awesome.