Video: Ants Turn Guy’s Scanner Into Giant Ant Farm
The video is pretty self explanatory, but here it is for those who can’t see it: A man and his wife had been noticing lots of ants on their computer desk but couldn’t figure out where they were coming from. It wasn’t from outside or anywhere else in the house. Later, the wife tells the husband that the printer wasn’t working correctly. He checked out the printer/scanner combo only to find that the ants had turned it into a home. The video’s pretty good, but what’s he going to do next? Throw out the printer/scanner? Evict the bugs? What would you do?
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Was I the only person waiting for the guy to activate the scanner, sweeping the invading bugs to their doom?
Same thing happened to my scanner! Seems ants love scanners.
Ants are strange. I had thousands living in a ceiling smoke detector (just there, nowhere else) … sprayed them with killer, and thousands more moved back in. I would never have minded but they kept setting it off. At night. This guy got off lightly, in my opinion.
Turn it on… Turn it on!
Maybe try taking it to the manufacturer… ants and all..
Eexactly the same thing happened to me, with the same model printer! Must be ant-friendly. I put it outside in the sun with the lid up and the little buggers took all their eggs and scarpered in about 5 minutes flat. Then i dismantled the lid and vacuumed out all the crap they left behind. No worries!
I had ants in my harddisk. Not actually n the surface but on the foam surrounding the enclosure between the circuitboard and the harddisk.
Guess they were looking for breeding space which was warm and people tend to leave the printers on which keeps some parts warm (and cosy) for ants.
Yep same thing happened to me a while back, printer worked fine after but the scanner always left crazy specs of colour after that and had to get another one.