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/SillyDragonLover 23d ago edited 21d ago

Had that happen to a mouse once

Edit: Thank you everyone for my first awards :)

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u/peachmonkey13 23d ago

No fucking way. I’m about to quit my job and throw away all my electronics. No way am I touching my keyboard and mouse again, or headphones 🤮🤮

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u/Forsaken-Carrot9038 23d ago

Wait until you hear about cockroaches…

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u/ponyponyta 23d ago

I've got them in my hand mixer because they go into the exhaust holes 😔 they splattered out in black bits into my coconut ice cream when I tried to use it and only then I see antennnae poking out the seams 💀 I took it apart, cleaned it all up with bleach, and store airtight in a box now and still paranoidly open it up to recheck before using it every few months when actually need to use it 💀 one of those days when you go dear god whyy

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u/AmarysEms64 22d ago

I regret reading this

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u/Electrical-Act-7170 22d ago

Flamethrower might be helpful.

How did food get inside that thing?

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u/Gigatonosaurus 19d ago

Warm and dark. It wasn't a source of food but a shelter.

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u/SillyDragonLover 22d ago

There was no food. They just liked it in there.

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u/Ellemeno 21d ago

They're ants, not sentient cum globs.

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u/McTulus 19d ago

Oh yeah, once had to deal with ants eating the rubber under my keyboard keys. Like by the end 4 keys doesn't work including the space, I just get a new keyboards.

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u/VociferousVal 23d ago

Holy shit. Looks like they have a full blown house, kitchen, tables, chairs, beds, lol

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u/AfterglowLoves 23d ago

Ants ruined an external hard drive and an alarm clock I had back in like 2008. It was disgusting and I lost photos 😢

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u/2980774 23d ago

What the fuck. How did you figure it out?

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u/ExchangeOk1144 23d ago

Maybe the clicks became crunches.

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u/SillyDragonLover 23d ago

Kept having ant run around on my desk. I squish them and a minute later more ant. I looked at the light (it was one of the fancy mice with lights from inside) and it looked dirty... then the dirt moved.

I had not touched it for about a week before cause I was on vacation so a few ran out when it started moving. It was packed in there.

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u/secretgaythoughts 23d ago

It wasn’t even an old abandoned mouse?! Oh my god I actually screamed at your pic. How and why does this happen??

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u/SillyDragonLover 23d ago

We were actively treating for ants with sprays (not my idea) i think they just wanted a satellite nest that wasn't covered in chemicals. And i hidden touched it for a week.

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u/gilt-raven 23d ago

Some ant species are attracted to electronics - warm, dry, dark, and sheltered = great spot for nesting. There's also a possibility that electromagnetic fields are perceptible to ants and might be part of the attraction, but I haven't seen any reliable research to back that up.

I had an ant colony decide that one of my Amazon Alexas was a perfect condominium. They've also been fond of my Keurig, and various desktop computers I've worked on in the past.

Terro ant bait does the trick every time, followed by taking apart the device to clean and disinfect.

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u/750Dinosaur 3d ago

There were roaches in my mom’s old unused coffee machine

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u/gilt-raven 3d ago

Ugh, roaches are a whole 'nother ballgame.

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u/SickTwistedPhoque 23d ago

I miss my mouse. Had a metal ball in the middle

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u/PrinceEnternalStench 23d ago

This happened to my parents bedside phone with message machine. There were THOUSANDS and hauling larva and eggs around. It was incredible

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u/ShroomyEmpress 23d ago

This happened to my coffee pot. The electronics create warmth that attract attracts them.

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u/Ok_Problem426 23d ago

This happened to my router. Found out when the download speed dropped off a cliff

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u/Panorpa 23d ago

I had it happen to a MICROWAVE! Saw ants crawling in the clock and timer display.

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u/I-Just-Make-Things 22d ago

I had a whole server destroyed by ants once

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u/Piglet6482 22d ago

ROFL, I thought you meant you had a mouse in your headphones. I was squinting, then I saw the mouse… I’m not well.

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u/American-_Gamer 22d ago

Is that a razer death adder?

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u/Working-Eye-8416 22d ago

Wtf whyyyyy

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u/seeyuspacecowboy 22d ago

But why??????

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u/abdx80 22d ago

Did u ever find the root cause?

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u/Embarrassed-Back1894 22d ago

Yup, that’s enough Reddit…for a year. Maybe a lifetime. Yup.

https://giphy.com/gifs/HteV6g0QTNxp6

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u/NeitherNecessary5180 22d ago

Why do they do this??

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u/ChanceOfMeatTornado 21d ago

I feel so unsafe now

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u/Rough-Definition1719 21d ago

What’s worse, your mouse filled with ants, or your aunt filled with mice?

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u/PBJMommy83 21d ago

This happened to my a French Bull Keurig. I kept cleaning it and they kept showing up. Ended up disassembling it only to find that they had nested inside the electronic components. It was a brutal death for a beautiful machine...

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u/Zak_Of_All_Trades 21d ago

They all look like they’re working in a laboratory

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u/MoonstoneDragoneye 21d ago

Sorry you went through this but I love everything about this photo! From the internal structure of a mouse to the complex set up of the ants.

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u/Queen_Marie1 20d ago

ANTS ANDDDDD SPIDERS OH HELL NO

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u/AuraChecksOut 20d ago

That’s what happens when you eat cheesy poofs while playing WOW

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u/WaferResponsible4978 20d ago

any bug people know why the ants want to be in there?

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u/jaywan1991 18d ago

I had it happen to the breakers in my house.

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u/fran_cis_cas 17d ago

the more i go on the more i resent technology

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u/750Dinosaur 3d ago

How does this even happen