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WHAT?! Ants colonize family car parked at airport for 3 days

Ants enter a jar which is used for breeding on April 5, 2014 in Bogor, Indonesia. (Photo by Nurcholis Anhari Lubis/Getty Images)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A North Carolina family returned from a three-day trip to find their car parked at the airport had been possessed by a colony of ants.

The Charlotte Observer reports Caroline Tedder Hacker lodged a complaint on Facebook on Sunday, warning people not to park in a certain section of Charlotte Douglas International Airport's parking lot.

She said the car's interior and engine were infested with ants, and her 11-month-old daughter had ants crawling on her during their ride back to Greensboro.

She said the colony had been inside long enough to build a nest in the corner of the engine.

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Airport officials told the newspaper they offered to pay the cost of cleaning, in addition to waiving parking costs.

They said ants tend to surface around this time of year.

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