• @WhatAmLemmy
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    198 months ago

    The only time I’ve smelt ants is when they get crushed. Are you telling me you could smell an ant trail just by walking into a room?

    • @[email protected]
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      218 months ago

      Are you telling me that if you step on an ant and crush it, you can smell it?! Wtf is going on in this thread??

      • @HonoraryMancunian
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        98 months ago

        My mind is being blown so much ITT. I don’t recall any insect ever having a smell, crushed or otherwise.

        • @[email protected]
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          48 months ago

          Ladybugs have a weird smell when you handle them. Smells a bit like earwax.
          Also, from the time when I hatched flies as food animals, flies really stink but you don’t normally notice because you don’t smell it when it’s just one. Put 100 flies in a bucket and they STINK.
          No idea what’s going on with the ants though. I’m still not convinced this isn’t a hoax.

      • @[email protected]
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        58 months ago

        I mean, I don’t think I can smell them as described, but crushed I can clearly smell the formic acid.

      • @WhatAmLemmy
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        28 months ago

        I don’t mean just stepping on an ant. I mean when you were little and climbing a tree or playing on the ground and crushed some ants, smelled your hand to figure out what it was, and it smelled like ants…

    • @scottywh
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      18 months ago

      I smell them outdoors from quite a long distance.

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          8 months ago

          No doubt… It certainly seems useless so far but when the ant wars start you’ll all want me on your team.