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Ants on my keyboard


Question Posted Tuesday October 11 2005, 12:31 pm

The other day on my way home from school I bought a bag of donuts and was eating them while typing out an essay on my computer.I was a bit careless and sugar and crumbs from the donuts fell on the keyboard.The next day after school I had ants crawling all over my keyboard.I dont know what to do.

Any ideas?


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Annerszz_101 answered Sunday November 27 2005, 3:36 pm:
First, take everything off of your desk area and place the keyboard somewhere on the floor. dust off the ants onto the floor and vacum them up quickly. Then spray bug spray stuff all over your desk area, behind it. and in the carpet area behind your desk. Then clean out your keyboard with a make-up brush and let the stuff stay off of the desk for about 15 minutes before placing things back on top if it. Then spray an air freshner around the desk area.

^^ PLEASE let me know if I helped or not!
**hope it works out**
x-O Annerszz_101 x-O

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CheerleaderGirl answered Friday October 14 2005, 4:07 am:
spray a tiny bit of windex in there to kill the ants and the ants have probably crawled to your room so i suggest you tell your parents to call an exterminator so that you dont have ants biting you at night while you sleep hope i helped ♥ Kelley ♥

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Marko answered Thursday October 13 2005, 12:41 am:
hey,
I suggest you invest in a good quality vacuum cleaner and go over the key board with it. Once this is completed you can lightly spray the key board with a multi purpose cleaning spray.

Next time please reframe from eating whilst you are on the computer.

Cheers.

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jenymca answered Wednesday October 12 2005, 10:56 pm:
Wait, so you were typing this on your ant-filled keyboard!! Gross! Okay, I know you're probably using another comp or keyboard or something. So...umm...get cans of spray-air and do that, you could shake it upside down (just unplug it from the comp first and take it outside!), and maybe you could vaccuum it if you dont want to buy the air can. That might work too. Good luck with that lol! (it reminds me of the time I spilled choco milk all over my keyboard! Lol!)

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XmeXohXmie answered Tuesday October 11 2005, 7:11 pm:
Eww. lol. This is gonna sound weird but...grab a vaccumm and get the tube part so vaccumm your key board. If you have a lil dust devil or somethin then that will work too. If not then call and ask an exterminator what to do. lol, and I am noit even kidding. :)

Hope it Helps!

<333,
Melanie

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alwayznforever42 answered Tuesday October 11 2005, 5:35 pm:
haha! well unplug the keybored or w.e and shake it and spray it with bug spray! please rate! hope i helped!<3

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DancinCutie08 answered Tuesday October 11 2005, 5:19 pm:
make sure you clean it all up and i would recomend cleaning the whole room and being careful in your house for the next few days. if they dont go away buy any tramps (its sticky stuff)

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Erinn_the_bamf answered Tuesday October 11 2005, 4:07 pm:
1) Shake the keyboard
2) Spary the keyboard with Raid
3) Pressure clean it (it's a bottle or compressed air)

Pick one of them.

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sbloemeke answered Tuesday October 11 2005, 4:05 pm:
You should probably get the ants off to begin with. Then, turn the keyboard upside-down and shake. Then, use alchohal (Rubbing) in small amounts and go over each key. That should get rid of them.

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netsirk07 answered Tuesday October 11 2005, 1:53 pm:
yeah i had this problem as well and all you need to do is get ant traps and shake out the keyboard and look underneath the keyboard and get ant killer spray and spray them..
Hope I Helped<33

<33kristen

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angelfire2708 answered Tuesday October 11 2005, 1:49 pm:
theres screws on the bottom. Just take it apart and clean it!!

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