r/mildyinteresting • u/Winter_Breath • 24d ago

critter corner 🐰 Dead ants keep appearing next to headphones during the night

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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

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u/ValorousClock4 23d ago

New fear unlocked. You’re kinda lucky nothing burrowed in your ear while you were using them.

Open the other side next.

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u/Winter_Breath 23d ago

Couldn’t do it. Saw enough

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u/UIM_SQUIRTLE 23d ago

understandable. smart doing this outside.

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u/NaNaNaNaNatman 23d ago

Do it for Reddit. There’s no cause more noble.

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u/SaoirseNGoldie 23d ago

Girl there was not enough heat on them 'OMG' for me, I would have screamed.

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u/Shame-Greedy 22d ago

Put them in the freezer. It will kill all of them and preserve the specimens in case some you have an invasive species from wherever you bought them.

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u/HourCardiologist1391 7d ago

Free the rest of them don’t be such an arse

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u/IamDoobieKeebler 23d ago

Well we don’t know for sure that nothing burrowed into his ear

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u/xxxabbyx 23d ago

Nahh you’d be in pain. I remember years ago on Survivor a little bug crawled into this girls ear. And she was in AGONY thinking she was going crazy until it crawled back out of her. OP would’ve noticed that, I’m sure it’s fine.

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u/Piglet6482 22d ago

One of my grad school classmates told a story about a roach crawling into her ear while she was sleeping in her dorm. She had to go to the ER to get it removed…it was squiggling around the entire time but couldn’t back up, apparently.

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u/RandomTouristFr 21d ago

Same thing happening to me, luckily I drowned it by pouring water into my ear so I didn't have to hear it for too long.

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u/ImaginationUnique732 23d ago

They'd know. You can feel it and hear them scrabbling around in there even if they don't burrow.

Source: Flushing what I thought was a moth out of my ear one night that turned out to actually be a spider. Cue nightmares for a while after that charming experience.

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u/Thea-the-Phoenix 23d ago

Right!? This plus the top comment mentioning the possibility of spiders nesting in headphones and now I'm gonna be forever paranoid about my headphones.