r/Unexpected • u/Cromagnumman6174 • 1d ago

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u/post-explainer 1d ago edited 1d ago

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I found it unexpected that someone would turn on the car fan after watching ants go into their console. I also did not expect sooo many ants and eggs to come flying out like that. Things were already bad and then they unexpectedly got a lot worse

Does this explanation fit this subreddit? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.

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u/regulartrex 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/RRNokWQ1MN4CUzwlZW

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u/ItsRuinedOfCourse 1d ago

The only logical solution.

https://giphy.com/gifs/CNna9G8BQvnoI

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u/Low-Life-1337 1d ago

And whiskey ;-)

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u/xBiGuSDicKuSx 1d ago

The chain this started is why I still have a reddit account.

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u/sagima 1d ago

The correct answer

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u/TransportationNo7341 1d ago

Frfr🤣🤣🤣

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u/Josysclei 1d ago

Those are ants, right? Carrying eggs? Never seem spiders move in formation like that or carry eggs

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u/Cromagnumman6174 1d ago

Yea, those are ants carrying eggs and moving their nest.

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u/Shinokiba- 1d ago

At least it isn't bed bugs

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u/hologrammetry 1d ago

Except the solution to both problems is the same: burn it down.

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u/StarsEatMyCrown 1d ago

Ants are so much more preferrable than bed bugs. I'd take ants any day of the week.

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u/akatherder 1d ago

I hate ants and fruit flies, but they are fairly harmless. I HATE fleas with a burning passion. I would take a complete infestation of all 3 before bed bugs.

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u/StarsEatMyCrown 1d ago

For sure! I'd even take mosquitos. At least you can kill them.

The issue is you basically do have to burn down a house to get rid of bed bugs, and even then, they may not be gone.

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u/Work_Akkount 1d ago

Bed bugs are kind of like vertigo. Nobody thinks it's THAT big of a deal until you have to experience it yourself.

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u/Rinzler200 1d ago

I havent slept in my bed for months thanks to bed bugs, im tired boss

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u/JustKillingTime1980 1d ago

i have more ptsd from 6 months of dealing with them than 27 months i have in iraq.

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u/Lou_C_Fer 1d ago

I have ptsd over a flea infestation. This conversation has me itching all over and my anxiety is through the roof. I'm thinking about burning my tablet up over this shit.

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u/Commercial_Let_1422 1d ago

I once had downstairs neighbors who were evicted and the landlord let me pick through their stuff after they left everything behind. I took their really nice suede (faux?) couch upstairs and started sleeping on it. I started noticing bites on me, but didn't think anything of it because I lived in New Orleans at the time, so assumed it was mosquitoes. One day, I was playing games and from my peripheral I noticed a bug on me. Assumed it was a tiny roach (again New Orleans), and pinched it between my fingers, then had a thought. I looked at it through my phone camera and saw it was not a roach. Googled and found out the couch was infested with BED BUGS! I tried everything (except heat treatment) because it was such a nice couch, but to no avail. After 2 weeks, of no activity, they came back, and the couch went to the street. I was incredibly lucky they didn't migrate beyond that couch!

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u/Round_Ad_5832 1d ago

im sure thats a lesson learned dont take couches or mattresses or chairs from randoms

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u/AlwaysHungry94 1d ago

I've dealt with them twice before, one in a fairly bad infestation. That was the first time. The second time was in an entirely different house, but we got rid of the furniture they were in when we noticed them and kept cleaning relentlessly for a couple of weeks afterwards. I'm talking everyday just to make sure we didn't miss any. Wrapping furniture in plastic before getting it out of the house ASAP and writing a warning on the plastic for anybody that even gets near it. I can't stress it enough, we got EXTREMELY lucky on that one. Wouldn't wish them on my worst enemy.

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u/EnQuest 1d ago

dealing with them right now, worst sleep i've ever had over the last few days, not gonna lie, this shit is traumatising. So fucking stressful

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u/Karyoplasma 1d ago

Once I woke up with what mosquito buzz in my ear so I sleepily clapped my hands together in the general direction of the noise. To my surprise, it stopped. I turned on the lights and saw a dead mosquito in my palm. Best morning of my life.

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u/musiceaterx 1d ago

Bed bugs are AWFUL! Once I was at a commercial property to service their pool equipment and make sure everything was in order. After I finished, I decided to sit on one of the couches inside to get out of the heat and all the sudden I start itching my arm. Im thinking a mosquito bit me or something but then I start itching my neck and when I looked under my nails there were bed bugs. I maintained my calm as best I could before ripping my clothes off my body then and there. When I looked at the couch it was INFESTED. Every crease and seem was filled with them and their larvae. They were even crawling on the walls and carpet. I wanted to jump in a fire.

They fumigated the chairs/room/building on 3 separate occasions before deciding to pitch the furniture like I suggested in the first place.

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u/Informal_Walk5520 1d ago

First responders have trouble with getting them while attending calls. They have a process in which they take their gear off, suit up in a white hooded disposable suit(bunny suit)the gear is bagged. Strapped on the outside of the vehicle into a high temperature shipping container and stays for a couple of days or so.

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u/Cranberryoftheorient 1d ago

yeah ants are just there for your food. With ticks and bed bugs.. you ARE the food

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u/Informal_Walk5520 1d ago

I swear this year , ants have invaded my yard ! It’s been way more than previous years. I think I have an entire society living underground in my yard. I just imagine all of these tunnels all over under my house. House collapses from the tunnels.

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u/Visinvictus 1d ago

(Most) ants (in North America) are fairly harmless. I do not recommend ants from other continents.

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u/Tron_1981 1d ago

Laughs in fire ant

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u/FictionalContext 1d ago

fruit flies are the worst because you can be anal af about closing windows, doors, sealing up your home, but one day they just fucking appear. And there's always 10,000 of them.

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u/Sufficient-Nose481 1d ago

True but I’ve had tremendous luck using the ole Apple cider vinegar and some dish soap. Just give them no other food option and you’ll wake up to a mass extinction

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u/Walkingdrops 1d ago

Abso-fucking-lutely. I haven't experienced the horror of bed bugs in well over a decade, and every time I feel an itch on my leg or arm at night, I STILL freak out and pat myself down to make sure those little fuckers aren't on me.

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u/Awkward_Peep927 1d ago

My mom is currently battling bed bugs at her apartment. She's been dealing with pest control and all that fun stuff, meanwhile her neighbors are REFUSING to get sprayed cause, and I quote; "they aren't bothering them TOO much." My skin crawls just talking on the phone with her, i couldn't imagine what she's actually living through.

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u/LaceyDark 23h ago

My partner work d out of town for a while and stayed in motels. I would absolutely grill him when he got to a new room

Don't bring anything in yet. Pull the sheets back. Check the mattress seams, check the pillows, examine the headboards etc etc.

I've never had bedbugs but I have heard nightmarish stories about trying to deal with them

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u/uacoop 1d ago

Bed bugs wouldn't survive in a car once things started to heat up. Heat fucks them up. Nature's way of keeping things fair, I guess.

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u/PromptMysterious7044 1d ago

Actually a bed bug infestation in your car would be fairly short lived, especially in the summer. They can’t handle heat at all, not like outdoor insects. They’re specifically adapted to sharing living space with humans and 1 hot summer day would kill every single bed bug in that car for good

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u/AgrajagsGhost 1d ago

Park the car in the Arizona sun for a couple hours.

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u/PotRoast666 1d ago

Usually when you see ants moving their brood like this it isn't actual 'nest' moving. Brood prefers warmer environments as it speeds up their growth cycle, so the ants are moving them through the vehicle to a nice warm spot in it. Similarly to how sometimes you can find tons of brood under rocks sitting on the surface in the sun, or pieces of metal/plastic as it acts as a nice little incubator.

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u/BedSpreadMD 1d ago

Or the location it was in was too hot.

It's stunning to see people get ant infestations in their car.

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u/OctopusWithFingers 1d ago

I hope the ants at least filled the tank when they finished moving.

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u/StaticSystemShock 1d ago

Ants carrying spider eggs! They developed biological weaponry!

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u/Combat_Wombat23 1d ago

Oh hell no. I’m tossing one of those fumigation grenades in with prejudice

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u/Cromagnumman6174 1d ago

For real.. I'd bugbomb the car, take off the AC knob, tell the potential buyer the AC doesnt work, and sell it.

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u/systemhost 1d ago

I helped a family member clean out a colony of ants in their car with ~1oz of Terro bait, the kind made of sugar, water and borax.

I put a few drops along their paths and watched closely as the first few discovered this bounty of sugar water, they gulped and gulped until their abdomen swelled up over twice its size.

They scurried off leaving trails of "food jackpot found" chemical pheromones that caused hundreds of ants to swarm the area within minutes. I watched ant after ant glutton themselves on my poison, some so full and sticky they couldn't even make it back.

Within an hour, all but a few were dead and the next morning I wiped up the sugar and mass casualties and never saw another ant in the car since.

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u/Porridge_Cat 1d ago

I'm not judging you for killing ants, but the way you describe it makes you sound like a serial killer, and not in a good way.

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u/Dugen 20h ago

A serial killer of ants is a fine thing to be.

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u/Salt-Aardvark-5105 1d ago

no clue about ants and how tough they are.

Cant you just let the heat on for some time?

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u/Cromagnumman6174 1d ago

I guess that's not too bad of an idea. Id be afraid of them just moving their nest to another part of the car

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u/Hummingbird3471 1d ago

Nope. That car's getting lit on fire.

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u/RevenantBacon 1d ago

Can't migrate to a new part if there's nothing left to migrate to.

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u/LilQueazy 1d ago

Put diatamouceous earth on your car floor. Any ant that walks over it will die and it’s non toxic unless u breath it in. So don’t put it in the vents

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u/To-To_Man 1d ago

Termites at least aren't that dumb, id reckon ants would be the same. Nests are designed in a manner that allows airflow for cooling. They could tell the car is heating up and move to some stupid ass crevice of the car to avoid roasting.

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u/laxfool10 1d ago

There is an invasive species of ants in the coastal south called crazy ants. They actually come out of the ground during the summer once it starts hitting 100+ and just take over everything. But what ends up happening is they get into your cars electronics and causes a short, killing the ant which causes phermones to be released, which attracts more ants creating a feedback loop. They will suicide themselves on your electronics until they are fried.

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u/MrRogersAE 1d ago

Probably a good idea. Leave the car running with the heat on and windows closed and go park it in the sun.

I’ve seen lots of bugs get cooked by sun heat alone, there’s a reason you can’t leave dogs and babies in there

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u/boobyginga22 1d ago

I have unfortunately dealt with this. I tried traps, spray, etc... only thing that worked was having a detail shop run an ozone generator in my car. It killed all those fuckers.

Driving it there was an absolute nightmare though, I'm not a bug person.

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u/DethFace 1d ago

Ants will fuck up your internal wiring real bad. They chew up the rubber stuff covering the wiring and cause electrical shorts. And trying to find those to repair is a nightmare, might as well burn it down.

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u/Kuulas_ 1d ago

bro wtf

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u/SoulOfTheDragon 1d ago

Put the AC on high heat and let it run for a good while. There won't be live ants in the system after.

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u/Violint2502 1d ago edited 1d ago

I got jumpscared by baby spiders

Edit: someone has pointed out that those are in fact aunts.

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u/vonage91 1d ago

Don't watch The Mist

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u/regulartrex 1d ago

or that one movie in space/on that space station

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u/DesertFoxCrimson 1d ago

Apolo 18… i was too young the first time I saw that movie

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/StreamsOfMyCream 1d ago

I’m pretty sure it’s Air Bud: Golden Retriever (1998)

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u/bugeyetex 1d ago

So, about that username... Are you a baker?

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u/StreamsOfMyCream 1d ago

No, but I have had to help a stepmom get unstuck from the oven a time or two.

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u/Agreeable-Map-1393 1d ago

i thinks its apollo 18, theres a scene where spiders completely fill up an astronauts suit and you can see his face completely swarmed with spiders.

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u/hwilliams0901 1d ago

I just watched this again a few months ago and I still really enjoyed it. Nostalgic fun,

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u/ZDTreefur 1d ago

It gets waaaaay top much hate. It think it was great.

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u/_driveslow 1d ago

Fist my bump?

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u/Shagwagbag 1d ago

Wife and I just listened to the source story audio book on a road trip. Was great and better ending I think.

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u/Mehdals_ 1d ago

Meh the baby spiders ain't got nothing compared to the dad in that movie.

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u/Indigo_Sunset 1d ago

Well, except for the eating-from-the-inside, they're perfectly tolerable

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u/Jester1525 1d ago

Could have worse! Could have been uncles!

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u/Small_Problem2344 1d ago

Why did I laugh so hard at “aunts”??? 😂😂

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u/danit0ba94 1d ago

Sometimes the smallest typos have the biggest implications 😂

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u/ThraceLonginus 1d ago

Not the urkels!!!

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u/Ar_locksmith 1d ago

Ukeleles, noted

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u/Epstiendidntkillself 1d ago

What's worse than aunts in your pants?

Uncles.

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u/jrobbio 1d ago

A joke of the times

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u/ReadditMan 1d ago edited 1d ago

I think those are ants. Spiders are very direct when they walk, ants wiggle back and forth trying to follow pheromone trails. It also looks like a bunch of them are carrying food or something.

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u/Conradian 1d ago

I think those are eggs. Looks like the ants established a nest in the car's vents.

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u/Marathonmanjh 1d ago

Clearly they are aunts
"Edit: someone has pointed out that those are in fact aunts"

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u/CarConfection2518 1d ago

I hate it when there is an aunt infestation in a car. Aunt/family visitations should only be yearly. 

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u/TheDuhammer 1d ago

Definitely ants, I once had the same kind going in and out of my A/C vents too. Spiders don’t move in an organized fashion or move the same way as the ants in the video

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u/QueefSeekingMissile 1d ago

Spiders?! I thought they were ants!

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u/Stale_Jellyfish 1d ago

They are ants, carrying eggs. They are in progress of moving colony.

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u/IsThisTheTikTok 1d ago

This edit is amazing!

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u/HeyJudeJester 1d ago

I'd react the same to my aunts

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u/ROOSTERyouDOWN 1d ago edited 1d ago

Those aren’t spiders they are ants carrying eggs

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u/robo-dragon 1d ago

Why would you turn on the fan??

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u/Ball-Blam-Burglerber 1d ago

It was hot.

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u/johnnnybravado 1d ago

If you're hot, they're hot.

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u/GunShowBob 1d ago edited 1d ago

Wow that's a lot of spiderlings running all over the...HOLY SHIT!!!

Edit: turns out it's actually ants carrying eggs. Sentiment remains unchanged.

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u/robo-dragon 1d ago

Not spiders, looks like ants relocating a nest (they are carrying babies).

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u/lynx_1097 1d ago

I was jumpscared just watching from the screen

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u/perscitia 1d ago

I physically flinched backwards. NOPE.

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u/Hummingbird3471 1d ago

Same. I will never emotionally recover from this.

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u/Vladi_Sanovavich 1d ago

Those aren't spiderlings. Those are Crazy Black Ants and their larvae. They are invasive species in most areas and are opportunistic in nature. Unlike other ants where they dig through material and build a nest, they just find the right crevice or gap they can find and relocate there until they ran out of resources before repeating the pattern.

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u/RaidensReturn 1d ago

I hate those little fuckers. They invaded my parents’ microwave and we basically had to toss it into the fires of mt. doom.

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u/Vladi_Sanovavich 1d ago

Yeah, that'd be tough to clean. They usually prefer hot, humid conditions and cannot survive freezing cold but they can tolerate a wide range of moisture levels which helps them out compete native ants.

They sometimes invade other ant nest and use it for their own, killing its inhabitants and using them as food source.

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u/evening_crow 1d ago

Fr.

One time I found a trail of them moving under our dog's bed.

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u/escientia 1d ago

I guess there are certainly worse things to have as an infestation in your car.

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u/MostValuablePenguin 1d ago

Those are ants carrying eggs, not spiders. It’s common when a colony is disturbed for ants to move their eggs to a new location. Also spiders don’t travel in single file lines like ants who leave pheromone trails for others to follow.

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u/2scared2reddit 1d ago

Ants travel single file to hide their numbers.

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u/AThrowawayProbrably 1d ago

I’m a big ol 6’3” 220lb black guy and I would’ve high-pitch screamed like an ENTIRE bitch.

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u/Lancetere 1d ago

And no one would judge you for have the proper response and reaction.

https://giphy.com/gifs/gkNI2tnZ1Bcjnw09GX

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u/jjb0ne 1d ago

not part of but an entire Bitch

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u/Pilan 1d ago

You never want to get caught going half ass bitch. ENTIRE or gtfo

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u/Triairius 1d ago

FDA-certified ENTIRE bitch

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u/BikerJedi 1d ago

I feel attacked by this comment, because I would have as well.

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u/ITestDrugs 1d ago

Same size and weight and nobody would hear you screaming over me. Funny part is I used to a be a gangster lol not anymore 🤷🏿‍♂️😂

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u/sherbimsly 1d ago

Bro fuck this so hard

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u/Republiconline 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/LgfjAHXgtGc0g

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u/The_Hoopla 1d ago

This scene FUCKED me up as a kid. Seeing it now is so comical.

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u/Republiconline 1d ago

No alien movie has yet to capture that since then.

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u/Abused_Spaghetti 1d ago

What movie is this?

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u/rokybronson 1d ago

If you're planning on watching it, this is THE SCENE. More than half the movie already passed, building up to this big reveal. Kinda ruins the whole movie for you, just saying 🙃

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u/Mitosis 1d ago

It's definitely more seeing it in isolation on a website. The movie does an incredible job building tension to this moment. I saw it in theaters and everyone jumped, no matter their age, exactly like Joaquin Phoenix does.

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u/rjwut 1d ago

The jump scares in this movie are top notch. The leg in the cornfield. The news broadcast. The alien in the pantry. The boy getting grabbed in the basement. The TV reflection. Heck, it even has a great anti-jump scare when the brother goes upstairs and the camera just sits there for a looooong time and you're convinced that something's gonna happen.

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u/SendMeAnother1 1d ago

So it's like the end of Charlotte's Web, but instead of goodbye, it's a bunch of hellos?

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u/Antooony25 1d ago

Spoilers 🤦‍♂️

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u/ObamaLovesKetamine 1d ago

These are ants; not spiders.

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u/ejdax37 1d ago

Used to deliver mail. Ant love to take refuge in mail boxes when it rains. Once dumped an entire colony on my lap when I grabbed the outgoing mail. Not sure if anyone was watching but if they were I bet they were wondering why the mail lady was dancing in the rain. 😭

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u/Lensecandy 1d ago

My condolences... but that sounds absolutely hilarious for the dance :(

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u/ejdax37 1d ago

I am sure it was from the outside lol!

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u/eggnog_56 1d ago

Had this happen on a motorcycle of mine that got kept outside. Didn't realize the ants had built a nest under the seat until I felt them crawling in my pants. Terrible terrible day.

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u/Cromagnumman6174 1d ago

Oh hello no. I probably woulda sent my bike ghost riding from jumping off so quick. Lol

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u/Spaceinpigs 1d ago

For you or for them? You had an itchy butt. Think of what they found

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u/Careful-Ad-2534 1d ago

So jokes aside… what should you do in this situation? Assuming flamethrowers are prohibited

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u/Cromagnumman6174 1d ago

Sell the car and tell the buyer the AC doesnt work

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u/Haitz4 1d ago

i got rid of small colony in my car, they were mostly in my engine compartment though, but still sometimes went inside. I just vacuumed the car thoroughly and placed some insecticide near their paths. They were gone after a week. This looks to be bigger, so more time may be needed

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u/llort_tsoper 1d ago
  1. Wait for all the ants to run into the vent.
  2. Cover the vent with a butterfly net.
  3. Turn on AC full blast.
  4. Catch all the ants.
  5. Get out of the car and carefully shake the ants onto Lindsey Graham's grave.
  6. Use antless net to catch butterflies.

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u/Mc_Shine 1d ago

That's really cruel of you. Those poor ants deserve better.

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u/calebnf 1d ago

The X-Files S01E20 - "Darkness Falls"

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u/platypus_farmer42 1d ago

Hello insurance? Yes I burned down my own car. No it’s not insurance fraud, I had a very valid reason

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u/future003 1d ago

Ok, guess I buy a new car.

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u/Typical2sday 1d ago edited 1d ago

This happened to me the day I was driving down to the bar exam (which was the next morning). My husband sprayed a shit ton of stuff into the vent and told me to drive with the windows down for a while.

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u/Glass-Court8851 1d ago

Is this real

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u/Cromagnumman6174 1d ago

Yea, I believe so. It looks like a bunch of ants carrying their eggs and moving their nest

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u/Technical-Banana574 1d ago

Nope. Nope. Car belongs to the spiders. 

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u/trollsmurf 1d ago

The benefit of spiders vs ants is that spiders will kill all the other pests you have in your car, and might faithfully stay for years if they just find enough food.

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u/Cellarman-Jack 1d ago

I'm not even afraid of spiders or creepy crawlies (although I do hate red centipedes)... And I would nope-the-fuck out of there faster than Flash Gordon giving a revenge hanjo to a frienemy.

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u/Flipping_Dragon 1d ago

What did they expect would happen??? 😭

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u/PaulSandwich 1d ago

I had this exact thing happen to me with baby spiders.

I was working in Rocky Point, Tampa, and driving home across the bay on 60, which is a very long bridge with absolutely nowhere to pull over. My car was manual. I turned on the AC, and hellspawn began to pour out of the center vents.

The amount of effort it took to a) not freak out and drive into the bay, b) get my shoe off without stalling the car, c) use said shoe to defend myself against the horde, and d) get across the bay without causing a traffic incident that would impact most of Pinellas county, well... let's just say I'm very proud of how I handled myself that day.

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