I have travelled widely with my laptop, in temperate countries, but this week I am in the southern Philippines, and today my computer was invaded by a colony of tiny red biting ants.

I am staying at a nice hotel, but it seems these ants prefer my computer to the hotel.

Each time they appear, from the crevices under the keyboard, I blow or brush them away, but more keep coming.

I don't want to take these ants back to my home, and I don't want them to die inside my computer, where they might cause something to corrode or short circuit (ants contain formic acid).

Has anyone designed a micro-device that can sit inside a computer and repel ants and dust mites etc.? The ideal would be something that emits microfrequency noise that is intolerable for small creatures.

Meanwhile, since my computer has already been invaded, is there any special or effective way of getting ants out?

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Peter J. Matthews, Chief Admin.,
The Research Cooperative,
Auckland & Kyoto.

Contact: researchcooperative [at] gmail [dot] com
updated by @chief-admin: 21/06/17 01:16:09PM