• @[email protected]
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    4 months ago

    I can for sure smell them but only close up, not from feet away so I’m not sure what that means for me in terms of this gene. They have a very odd musty smell which is also detectable on anything they’ve walked on recently. It’s not a very pleasant odor.

    As far as I know it’s all ants, not just a particular type.

    • @inefficient_electron
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      14 months ago

      You’re probably smelling the pheromone trails they use for navigation/communication.

    • @Lumisal
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      14 months ago

      You can smell them feet away if it’s a pile of dead ones