I have it. My mom used to crush ants she saw in the kitchen before she realized that the stink I was complaining about was the stench of compressed ant corpses. Don't get me started on these stinky fucks:
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2024
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I'm so intrigued! What do centipedes smell like?
Milipedes.
The closest I can equate it to is hair chemicals.like the stuff they use for perms or coloring...but worse.
EDIT: Ants also have a strong chemical smell. Pungent like Krazy Glue but not at all the same.
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I think that's a millipede. Centipedes = 1 pair of legs per body segment, millipedes = multiple pairs per body segment.
In the picture it looks like more than one pair of legs per body segment.
I think that's how it is, anyway.
They smell SO BAD. I was super sensitive to it as a kid, and the smell would be impossible to get off, so I developed a habit of never crushing them.
Why tf would anyone crush ants? Is this a thing?
Like, killing them? One or two running across a table, and you just pop em?
You murderer!
I hope the smell never washes off your hand, you sick son of a bitch.
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No, it's ugly? I just swish them away.
Like spray them with water? Sure, if they're in the sink or on the counter. If you mean just swat them away, I wouldn't trust that to kill them. And as soon as it doesn't kill them, and they find their way back to the nest, there's a chance they'll lead others back, if they found so much as a scrap of food.
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As a tool-using species, killing them with something you won't care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.
It releases the smell. It stays around in the room.
I can't smell ants but I can smell roaches. Any house or restaurant I walk into that has that signature roach scent, I do a 180° and leave.
As to describe the scent of roaches: Pungent, wet/moldy towel smell, worse when they're dead.
We need people like you as health inspectors.
Wait I thought wveryone can smell roaches
You know, I feel like I know that smell as well. Not anywhere NEAR as pungent as the ant smell, but I've been in some... Unfortunate situations with enough roaches that I can conjure up that smell.
Well, now I can't help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.
Probably better, I've never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.
In my experience it's way better, and that having a candle burning will usually clear up the scent of a crush in relatively short order.
Only if he eats it.
Yeah. It sounds more like he could be Ant-Man and is able to pick up on the trails. If he can communicate with them by twreking his butt into the ground, I'm convinced.
Antmeeter. He can always arrange an in-person meeting with an ant. Even if the ant's schedule is full.
I wouldn't say I can smell if there's a single ant in the other room, but I can absolutely smell if there are ants. And I hate if I have to sweep them out do anything because they really pop off in distress. Its crazy how such a tiny thing can smell so bad.
He’s like an X-Men hero designed to find Ant-Man when he gets stuck between couch cushions or something.
Gon Freecss moment
I equate it to the smell of juniper berries.
Lee Mack can smell dead flies
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBL5HR9Cuo&pp=ygUgbGVlIG1hY2sgc21lbGwgYSBmbHkgaW4gdGhlIHJvb20%3D
Damn, I really believed him
This is exactly what I thought about increasing this! I asked my bf what bug it was because I couldn’t remember for sure. If only I’d kept scrolling before asking, lol.
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If her bf is an anteater, good for her, I'd say. 😏 On a more serious note, I think I have the opposite, cause I've never felt the apparently dreadful smell that stinkbugs emit when threatened or squished.
You evolved to be their ultimate menace.
Oh I have that with mosquitoes, my parents even wake up when they sting, but I feel nothing, I always have some big ones filled with blood in the morning because they feast on me all night long.
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I think it smells like mint gum and wood chips. I've only ever smelled it when I was landscaping and accidentally killed a bunch of ants.