Should I be worried about ants going into my electronics?

[Khephra]

We're fighting a constant battle with ants at our house, and I've noticed that they're starting to go into my keyboard and VCR recently. Any reason for this? And should I be concerned?

[PragMantisT]

1. Are there many food crumbs in your electronics?

Ants want food. If there is no food, they don't want any of it. I think they leave a trail of pheromones to the food, and that's where they go.

[Khephra]

3. Maybe my keyboard

But definitely not in my VCR. That's where they're heading the most.

[PragMantisT]

5. Really, a line of them?

There has to be something that they are eating in there. Maybe residue of a spilled drink?

[Khephra]

7. Maybe it's a dead insect.

No spilled drinks in there at all.

[PragMantisT]

8. That makes sense. n/t

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Well they conduct current so it's possible not probable

that they will short something out.

Keep them away from your Motherboard.

[Robb]

4. Have they started sending email?

This is how the dark ant army communicates across the globe. Fear them. :D

[Stew225]

6. Can't you enlist the aid of your uncles to help

you with your ants? sorry.

[Khephra]

9. Uncles?

I'm missing something.

[BiggJawn]

10. "Ants and Uncles"

C'mon, Kheph, you're in Indy, you KNOW white folk don't say "aunt", we say "ANT"...

[jdonaldball]

11. Tell them there are no jobs in IT

[Kellanved]

12. Yes you should!

Computers are an insect's paradise: warm, undisturbed and they can actually eats some of the materials used in it. Ants can be the cause of computer failures; there are even reported cases, where ants had built complete colonies inside a PC.


http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,3936,00.html

[fknobbit]

13. They are drawn to elctronics for some reason.

Agree with Kellanved....fire ants Jamed the starter on a new Mercury for me, and I have to clean them out of the breaker box on my water pump annuly. I would suspect they are cluttering up your power supply