Computer "bug" Yikes!

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Hi all. The other day, I was scanning some items with my A3000 and had a visit from some nature.



Imagine seeing one of these appearing on your keyboard (while its in your lap):-o. Well, I grabbed my pliers to order to grab it, and it then slipped under the keypad keys. After taking the keyboard apart and squirting some cleaner, it finally ran out, allowing me to squash the little bugger.   :python:

Since I had the thing apart, I did a thorough cleaning, since it needed it.

Anyone else had this kind of experience with unwelcome visitors in your computers?

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Sounds like Hitchcocks "The Birds" on the insect level. I think I read that the first computer bug was an actual insect that got fried by one of those old room-sized vacuum tube computers.

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Wolf Spider    

Venom toxicity - the bite of the Wolf Spider is poisonous but not lethal. Although non-aggressive, they bite freely if provoked and should be considered dangerous to humans. The bite may be very painful. First aid and medical attention should be sought as soon as possible, particularly as to children or the elderly. Spider Identification - an adult is 1/2 inch to more than 1 inch in body length - mottled gray to brown in color, with a distinct Union Jack impression on its back. The female carries it's young on its back. Habitat - this spider is a ground dweller, with a burrow retreat. It has a roving nocturnal lifestyle to hunt their prey and can move very rapidly when disturbed. Commonly found around the home, in garden areas with a silk lined burrow, sometimes with a lid or covered by leaf litter or grass woven with silk as a little fence around the rim of the burrow.

Not something I want to share living quarters with! Squish em. There's plenty of prey outside.  :lol:

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koaftder wrote:

Spiders serve a purpose (eating bugs and feeding cats).  

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Too bad. We could have used some of your friends at our old office. The silverfish were pretty bad there. Our apartment is relatively bug free thank goodness. A couple of apartments ago, I had an ant infestation similar to that mess in Texas. Thank god they stuck to the kitchen although that was pretty horrible.