Ant infestation in my computer!?

Question

I just discovered this morning thatI had a small sugar ant infestation inmy room, icleaned myentire room and managed to kill most/all of the ants. but as i a typing this, i see one ortwo ants come crawlingacross the screen or out ofthe keys......except for now it stopped.of coursewhen iget help it stops. WELL if they come back what can i do...i think sprays will hurt my computer.. Oh it's a Mac laptop btw. AH and i broke my spacebar in the process of freaking out when i saw one...OH i saw another one...they'restillhere. Help?

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Answer 1

I would put a ant trap somewhere by your computer, but don't eat anything by your computer, you'll leave crumbs, and they'll eat that instead.

Answer 2

The most common ant baits used to get rid of sugar ants are called sweet baits, and the most common ingredient found in sweet ant baits is boric acid, or Borax. Most household ants (pharaoh ants, pavement ants, and little black ants included) are prone to the poison known as Borax. Borax is a mineral mined in the deserts of California, refined and dissolved into all manners of ant bait systems. It is generally non-toxic to humans, though I wouldn’t recommend inhaling or ingesting large amounts of it. It is a slow-acting poison, which means that when the ants eat the bait (usually corn syrup), the poison doesn’t kill the ants right away. The ants take some of the sweet bait back to the colony with them and dispense the poison meal to other ants. This is how colonies of ants are exterminated, and sugar ants are the easiest ants to kill because they’re small, voracious scavengers. If you want to get rid of sugar ants or kill a sugar ant colony quickly, I prefer Terro brand sugar ant baits.

Answer 3

Use a mix of cinnamon and sugar. The ants will pick up the sugar, along with the cinnamon, and take it back to their queen. Ants can’t digest cinnamon and once the queen dies from not being able to digest the cinnamon the colony will die without her.

Answer 4

Me too. I just woke up and brought my labtop out to the sofa and then releaized that ants were crawlingon the sofa,killed them and bought my labtop to the table and ten ants crawled out. So creepy. They're small like this size: i <----but without the dot. I think they're phaoroh ants. I'm killing them with dishwasher soap on a napkin.