Comment on Ant smell
intensely_human@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoSmells are very localized
Smells are airborne. They move with the air.
You can walk into a house and tell they’re cooking dinner, just by smells that have traveled 50 feet from the kitchen to the front door.
marcos@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Dispersion varies widely due to the kind of smell, intensity, and air circulation.
Most smells do not travel 50 feet.
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
I have to counter that in my experience most, if not all smells travel 15m. When the wind is right that increases massively.