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Ant smell (mander.xyz)
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[–] 50 points 2 years ago (30 children)

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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  • [–] 79 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    I've never heard of insects having a smell, other than like stinkbugs!

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wait are u telling me bugs don’t smell to you?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    I smell them outdoors from quite a long distance.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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 ;)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Can you smell them on the floor if you're standing up? How close do you have to be?

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