A very tiny ant got inside one of my external monitor screen. How do I get it out? Also any suggestion to keep ants away from electronic stuff?

Install a honeypot

Not eating at the desk=no ants

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@jonas-w I don't.This is not a regular issue. It's just one ant somehow got inside the monitor.

It’s looking for food. Shouldn’t find any in your monitor so it’ll just leave or die

You need a debugger

It shouldn't have gone in there, so it's a miscre-ant.

I had this many years ago on an old tft monitor.
That little bastard bug did a random walk and then died in the middle of the screen and I couldn’t find a way to remove it.

send another ant in with a small thread attached so that ant 2 can bring ant 1 back home. works 9/10

@nebula
> ant with a small thread attached to it

Like… a spider?

@Lensflare i think spiders and ants do not come along so good, but worth a field study

Normally, an ant wouldn't fit between the layers of an LC/TFT Display. So if there is some sort of exrtra front glas panel, it might just be behind that and you could manually remove it without disaaembling the actual display.

If it actually got between the layers of the actual display assembly, you obviously still could disassemble that, remove the ant then reassemble - but you better know what you are doing or chances are that you make the situation worse...

So in that case, better wait for it to get out. And if it doesn't, you still can try to fix it yourself and then get a new display, live with the ant in the shell - or have a friend with a component-level repair business debug the display for cheap (if it isn't a friend, it will be cheaper to get a new display instead)...

Had one die right in the middle of my screen once. Had to use dark mode for everything to hide it as much as possible

@horus amusingly this is where the original term was coined

@AvatarOfKaine I believe it was in a vacuum tube, no?
Not exactly a monitor but close ^^

@Lensflare bugs eating wiring which used to be made of cellulose I think

@Lensflare like they were insulated with cellulose

@AvatarOfKaine yup
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