• PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    Wait are you telling me y’all actually don’t smell ants? They’re a weird and kinda smell like blue cheese. Definitely the smellier of insects.

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      5 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?

    • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 months ago

      Never in my life has an ant had any smell whatsoever. I was today years old when I realized people could smell ants.

      In fact, I’ll go one step further. I grew up on a farm, tons of bugs. The only bug that I can ever remember smelling are those stupid Asian stink bugs invasive thingies that seem to have proliferated in the northeast US recently. When you squish them, they smell like green apples.

      I can’t think of any other bug that smells at all - even when they are squished.

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        5 months ago

        I’m convinced these people are just making it up, I’ve been alive nearly 40 years and not once heard of this being a thing.

        • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          5 months ago

          I mean, they probably DO smell - but like I’ve never gotten on my hands and knees and sniffed any bug up close. Maybe these people are more sensitive to smells and can pick them up yards away - or a whole colony?

          But ya it’s weird that I’ve never heard of this at all. I had heard of people born with tails or horns, females with beards, color blindness, tiger stripes on skin, the asparagus thing, rain man, hemaphrodites, on and on…

          But today I learned ants smell ;)

      • marcos@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Formic acid does really smells like steel tastes. But I’d blame the nickel for the taste, iron tastes differently.

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        5 months ago

        I can smell ant hills that are far enough that I can’t see them from an open car window.

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        5 months ago

        Ya on the floor, outside smells like bugs a bit too (and dirty and a million other things).