Can ants damage my computer? I seem to be having a lots of ants in my apartment when the summer season started, my kitten is doing a good job so far and eating them but they are everywhere.
So if an ant finds a way to go inside the PC case... should I be worried?

the only thing i think that will happen is, that you will have toasted ants or dead ants but no damage should be done to your PC

the only thing i think that will happen is, that you will have toasted ants or dead ants but no damage should be done to your PC

Sorry for my poor english but..
Is it possible that an ant or a dead ant can connect two solders on the motherboard/GPU or anything else that will cause short-circuit(?) ?

EDIT: I would use ant-poison around comptuer or something but I can't because of my kitten

Haven't heard of insects creating shortcuts (except 'bugs' frying on old transistors), But yeah, most damage would be in the fans and moving parts.

If they start nesting, I'd worry

Although I could put somekind of liquid or something that has a smell that the ants dont like and kitten does not get poisoned.. build a "wall" around the computer..

why I didn't think of that earlier.. now I just need to google for something that the ants will avoid

They might eat your bytes.

or steal your chips

Yes, ants can damage your computer. They could get into the fan bearings or they could short out the power supply. It's not terribly likely, but it's a risk. Computers emitting heat may attract them; ants -- particularly flying ants -- will move up a temperature gradient (they think they're heading out of the nest towards the sunlit surface).

Locate where the ants are getting in from. Once you've done that, go buy some ant traps and leave them near that entrance. The ant traps contain a sweet, but toxic substance; it's a slow, cumulative neurotoxin. By the time it starts to have an effect, all the ants in the nest will have eaten enough to kill them; it will also kill the queens.

There several natural ways to keep ants away from food or other places. Pine wood has a characteristic scent which ants and other insects will avoid -- pine sap is poisonous to them. Pine wood is often sold in untreated small wooden cubes for this purpose (as a natural alternative to mothballs); just leave them lying around. It actually smells quite nice as well.

Another is garlic; the chemical we like in garlic is actually made to dissuade insect attack. Crack open the clove, thread the parts onto a string and hang it in the room. Slightly niffy, but not too bad if it's the kitchen. It'll also dissuade mosquitoes and small flies.

Marigolds are supposed to work for flying insects, but I don't know if they work against ants.

or you could just end up with lots of bugs in your code...

"kitten does not get poisoned"

Ant traps are (these days) designed so that pets can't get at the substance.