Journal #7191

Posted 13 years ago2011-04-30 01:25:56 UTC
Okay so get this, I walk over to my wi-fi browser for no particular reason, but I walk over none the less and it's COVERED in tiny little ants. We occasionally get them in the spring but just if we leave food out or dirty dishes in the sink. This was completely different. I pick it up and underneath are more of them, and tons of eggs and larvae too. I quickly run and grab the vacuum and suck them all up, but more keep pouring out from INSIDE the router, turns out the ants decided that my router would be the perfect place to set up a colony. So after shaking this thing out for about 15 minutes they stopped coming out, and I had a while ago sucked up the queen. I proceeded to dump the ants contained in the vacuum out in the forest.

I think they were in there because of all the rain we got, lots of areas here are flooded and many roads and bridges are washed out. Maybe their actually colony got flooded and they decided the wi-fi browser would be the perfect place to set a new one. The funny thing is they didn't seem to damage it at all, it was working fine before and it works fine now and now if they come back they will die a slow painful death of being poisoned.

Yeah imagine this with 10,000 tiny ants covering it.
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8 Comments

Commented 13 years ago2011-04-30 01:31:53 UTC Comment #66354
The exact same thing happened to my family's multifunction printer a few years back. We ditched the printer because it was smearing dead ants over all our paper whenever we tried to print.
Commented 13 years ago2011-04-30 01:37:30 UTC Comment #66353
Hah, wow.
Commented 13 years ago2011-04-30 02:12:00 UTC Comment #66357
You have to talk to your family, Ant. They can't just move into people's routers and lay their eggs in there.
Commented 13 years ago2011-04-30 03:51:42 UTC Comment #66358
You should have taken a photo BEFORE cleaning it.
Commented 13 years ago2011-04-30 05:58:12 UTC Comment #66356
Penguinboy that's funny and cruel at the same time.
Commented 13 years ago2011-04-30 06:30:49 UTC Comment #66359
I would have payed to have that printer PB. Would make for some very interesting game posters.
Commented 13 years ago2011-04-30 14:33:22 UTC Comment #66360
I should have taken a photo, but it kinda caught me off guard and I didn't really think about it, I just wanted them gone.
Commented 13 years ago2011-05-01 12:45:57 UTC Comment #66355
Awesome.

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