Comment on Ant smell

• jballs@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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??

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  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Science.

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  • HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • watersnipje@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • 59QRRwD@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You can smell earwax?!

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  • childOfMagenta@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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…

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• scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I smell them outdoors from quite a long distance.

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  • WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    What a shitty superpower

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    • scottywh@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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