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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• starik@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I can only smell them if I sniff a crushed one up close. It’s been a long time - I don’t step on bugs on purpose.

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  • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I don’t think they’re talking about the dead/distressed ant smell. To the best of my knowledge, everyone can smell that. They’re talking about a general smell of ants

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    • LeapSecond@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, everyone can smell dead ants? Pretty sure I can’t

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      • em2@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They smell like paint thinner

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      • VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I can’t smell them, but I can hear them

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    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It could be the same smell, formic acid.

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      • Danquebec@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Same, never smelled ants.

        And I’ve watched ants a lot when I was a kid. I still do sometimes.

        I used to even bring pieces of food from the pantry to give to the ants.

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    • Biffsbraincell@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m pretty sure that’s the smell they’re talking about, they make more of it when disturbed or crushed but it’s always a tiny bit there. But pretty sure that’s the smell they’re speaking of.

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      • ada@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The reason I doubt that is because I can’t smell ants “all the time”. And I can definitely smell them when they’re disturbed. But most people who talk about smelling ants describe the smell as “damp” or “mouldy” or “earthy”, and I have never smelled an ant that smells like that.

        The only smell I’ve ever smelled from them is acrid and acidic, and that only happens when they’re disturbed or dead.

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