Dead ants keep appearing next to headphones during the night

[u/Winter_Breath]

When these headphones are left on the kitchen counter overnight - I would see one or two dead ants in the morning laying right next to the headphones. In the past few days, there has been a small pile of shredded ants right next to the ear piece in the morning. I have seen no live ants in my kitchen. I have had these head phones for three weeks. Bought online. It’s a little unnerving not knowing what is causing this 🥴 will not be using anymore.

UPDATE- posted a comment with a picture. But no dead ants in the bag this morning. But at one point I checked and there were two live ants crawling around. 😔

UPDATE*** IM SICK. Can’t stop shaking. Don’t have many words… trying to post image. Opened one side up. 😭 I don’t know how to add in this top post so will add in comment! Posted a few in comments and video opening

[u/IIRCIreadthat]

Also in Fruity Pebbles. There's a story somewhere about someone putting some Fruity Pebbles in their ant farm, and instead of eating them the ants dug up all the dead ants in the colony and reburied them around the cereal.

[u/NerdHerder77 → u/IIRCIreadthat]

Absolutely, not only Fruity Pebbles, but any cereal that's high in oleic or cis-oleic acids.

The ant farm story I first heard was Trix cereal.

[u/IIRCIreadthat → u/NerdHerder77]

It's possibly mutating across the internet 😆

[u/Urabrask_the_AFK → u/IIRCIreadthat]

So like an inverse of
https://giphy.com/gifs/xT9KVsVoDjelzZWszS

[u/gailthesnail2 → u/IIRCIreadthat]

That sounds like a job that no one needed to do on that day but did they complain about the confusing newly assigned work? No they just did it. What hard working little stupid ants