Yeah, I know. Unfortunately they are tiny and I do have some arachnophobia and that earlier post has me freaked out. I know I’m being childish but really can’t help it. |
How? How did the bugs get into a MacBook? They have to pass so many more livable places before getting there. Is the laptop caked with sugar or food bits? |
Are they like these, mold mites? https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbug/comment...s_on_and_inside_her/ |
They like the warmth.
Leave it turned off for a while, and put something warm (like another laptop or an incandescent lamp) and a hot sweet smelling drink next to the old laptop to draw their attention. Don't let them in the new laptop, though! |
Double seal your laptop in trash bags, put it in the freezer for a day. That should kill them. If not, put ammonia in the plastic bags and seal well for a day. |
Somebody on reddit said it's the best way to kill and preserve insects for entomological collections. |
I really don’t know. From what I read on the Internet, people do have this problem and people seem to think it has something to do with the warmth? There definitely aren’t food bits on the computer. |
This video was probably the first thing I found on the Internet lol. No, that’s definitely not it — what I’m seeing look a lot more like little ants and the bugs coming out of my machine are probably 2 to 3 times as big as those. Tiny, but not as tiny as those. And I saw like three at a time, not a gazillion of them. |
I’m afraid that will damage my computer? |
If they are ants, they will come out to eat. And they will be dead before they can reproduce in there.
Get an oversized ziploc bag and keep your laptop in it. They can't get out of a ziploc. Then put that Terra bait near the laptop. Use clear packing tape to pick them up and crush them. Given the few that you've seen, there's probably just a small colony that got into your house and onto the laptop. I get ants invading my house from holes in the brick near the doors. A couple hundred can show up in an hour. Your problem is mild. Kill as many as you see. Put laptop in ziploc when not in use and put bait out when you are using it. Imagine you are at a picnic. Be brave! |
Perhaps dead bugs but they were so small to begin with, and they just become smaller and shrivel up into teeny black dots |
OP - I’m with you. I’m also an arachnophobe and that spider story may have me off devices. Maybe burn that laptop and start over. |
Sounds like German Cockroaches. They are tiny, with a stripe on them. They are attracted to the warmth and EMF the electronics give off. |
Don't do that without removing the lithium-ion battery first. Those things go up immediately and can't be extinguished, once ignited. |
Thanks everyone. OP here with an update. We used a bug bomb in my office last night. I checked my computer this morning and didn’t see any bugs, but I only looked very briefly. I’ll update again tonight when I get home from work and actually use it.
Hoping for no bugs crawling out of it tonight. |