Ants in the Hinge of a Macbook Pro?

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Ants in the Hinge of a Macbook Pro?

Recently, I have been seeing a lot of small ants walking in and out of the vent area of my Macbook Pro. Today, I sprayed some compressed air into the side of the hinge area, when all of a sudden a mob of ants (around 15 or more) came running out of the hinge. I searched the internet for solutions and not found much useful ones.

However, I still continue to see ants walk in and out of the hinge of my Macbook Pro (I killed an additional 15 ants in the past hour) , which gives me the feeling that there might be a nest inside of it!!

I don't really eat near my computer, so that shouldn't be the cause of this.

What do I do? Is this covered by warranty? I have the extended apple care on the laptop, which means that I should have around 2 years left.

Thanks, Justin

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10), 2.9 Ghz Dual Core i7, 8 GB RAM

Posted on Dec 2, 2014 12:07 AM

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Answer 1

spudnuty

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Dec 2, 2014 12:27 AM in response to Justin Y. 葉

Hi Justin,

Welcome,

>I don't really eat near my computer, so that shouldn't be the cause of this.<

I never do either but I just changed out my top case and keyboard and was amazed on the amount of smutz there was in there.

>covered by warranty?<

Can't imagine that it is. However the ants find something very attractive about your laptop. If you see them trooping in and out of your laptop, they're following a pheromone trail that a scout has left. You should try to blow out your laptop and move it. Then use a bait type ant killer on the trail left left where the back of your laptop was. In a few hours if that theory is correct you should see a bunch of them gathered around the bait and then they would be gone. I usually either sweeten the deal with a little honey or oil depending on the type of ant.

>might be a nest inside of it!!<

Doubt that, because if that was the case there would be hundreds of them.

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Answer 2

Dec 2, 2014 12:38 AM in response to Justin Y. 葉

this is a weird case,but if you want to take it to apple store they will clean it for you .ore you can do it ,at home just opened the back lead you will see the vent area and spiry the compressed air into the vent its easy then close the lead, but make sure you know which screw goes into which ,because the screws are different ,here look it this video how he opens the macbook pro don`t worry about the RAM upgrade part skip it you only need to see how he opens it and close it back up

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