Ants now invading scanners, laptops may be next

Posted in News by Conner Flynn on August 3rd, 2008


Many of us go to extreme measures in order to keep pests out of our homes. Normally they’ll head straight for any crumbs that you’ve left on your floor or just blindly enter your dwelling as if for no apparent reason. They are easy enough to take care of. Start stomping or call in the verminators. But what do you do when insects start invading your tech?

One couple started noticing ants on their computer desk. They couldn’t quite figure out where they were coming from. There didn’t seem to be a problem anywhere else nearby. As you can see in the video, the work area is very clean. So the wife discovers that the printer isn’t working. The guy checks it out and finds that a small invading ant army had taken up residence in the scanner area. Pretty weird and makes you wonder where else they are that you don’t know about.

Have any of you ever encountered something like this? We’d like to know what we should be opening and inspecting.

[Gizmodo]

TAGS: , , , , , , , , ,

Subscribe to the SlipperyBrick.com content feed through RSS Subscribe to feed via email.


RELATED ARTICLES:
Ants Life Studio is a virtual ant farm
ASUS offers four new perfumed laptops
Another Toshiba laptop, or two, doing the Centrino 2 dance
CardScan business card scanners now Mac friendly

Leave a Reply

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>




Other blogs from the Topic Soup Network that you might like:

PopTherapy.com - A therapeutic guide to popular culture

WeathyReader.com - Where reading pays off.

HealthyReader.com web site

Botropolis.com web site