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One Reddit user made a surprising, slightly terrifying discovery when they found a colony of ants had laid eggs in their PS Vita. Redditer mutdualeo posted a 20-second video showing their Vita positively swarming with tiny ants – coming out of the screen, crawling over the front and back panels, and, apparently setting up an ant nursery with eggs.

If you’re bug averse, you should probably skip the video.

Mutdualeo said the ants don’t bite and don’t seem aggressive to humans, and they aren’t keen on leaving. So far, the ants have ignored all of mutdualeo’s attempts to make them move on, prompting the Redditer to ask for help about how to deal with the situation – ideally without harming the eggs.

Most of the responses were the usual comments about PlayStation bugs or overlooked that last part and suggested methods that would definitely not be egg friendly. One recommended bug spray, another suggested luring them out with honey or a sugary snack placed near the handheld, but the most popular idea was putting it in a plastic bag and putting the bag in the freezer. What that would do to the Vita itself is hard to say, though mutdualeo wasn’t keen on destroying the colony's next generation anyway.

A few commenters said any solution would only be temporary unless they found where the ants came from. One said the ants are probably Raspberry Ants, a species notorious for its obsession with electronics, and if that’s the case, they’d probably just come back after a short time.

Strange as mutdualeo’s situation seems, it’s apparently not uncommon. A few quick searches on Google and Reddit show multiple threads and forum posts of distressed people wondering how their PS4 or Xbox One suddenly became ant hostels and only sometimes solving the problem by placing traps or a sugar-and-borax mix outside the console.