This thread makes me glad Im bad with regular smells, let alone ant pheromones and shit like that. Downside is I cant tune out sounds, I always hear everything full blast
By smell, do u mean like ants are walking by n u can smell them, or like you’re jamming your face into ant hills n giving it a whiff?
Read that first paragraph to the end this time.
Ha, fair. I don’t think I’ve ever bothered trying to smell them, now I’m gonna have to try the next time.
i want to know how many things people had to snarf before realizing it was a tiny bug that they are smelling. how many ants were lost in noses over the years from people testing the theory?
So, what do ants smell like?
Some of my family can smell spiders
Holy shit I thought I was either full of shit or a mutant freak. I’m happy to be a mutant freak.
I feel so validated right now you guys have no idea.
Congratulations on your mutation. This one sucks less than the cilantro one.
Haha get rekt sucks to suck!
/s
This! I used to tell people all the time I could smell some ant hills from several yards away. Fire ants smell like death. The larger and more aggressive species in my area smell more than the more benign ants. I’m sure it’s a warning to other animals to stay away.
So is this only for the American House Ant or also for European Carpenter Ants?
Who the fuck is out here censoring fuck?
I never noticed this, but I’m not around ants that much as a software engineer. :)
As a software developer and a few of my colleagues are ants. You might need to find a new job, somewhere more inclusive.
Years ago you might compile Java with ant. Now it’s mainly maven or gradle.
Write more bugs.
Huh, TIL I can smell ants too.
I used to live in a basement that had regular cycles of ant infestations. I would know they had returned, because the room had started to smell a certain way. Kind of like, damp slightly sweaty skin, but also kind of woody?
Every time I smelt it, I’d always find fresh ant eggs along the wall in the room.
Gotta love how they see a video talking about it, with comments talking about it, and their first step is to post on Facebook asking about it before doing a simple search on their own.
TikTok isn’t a great place for conversation. But then again, neither is Facebook any more. Public posts on Facebook have commentary that makes the old YouTube comments look downright intelligent and engaging.
People like to engage with other people.
No we don’t.
You would do well in Finland.
Man I gotta move there… Any recommendations?
Somewhere inside of the area outlined in red here:
Except uusimaa, it’s like the mordor of Finland
Is it the formic acid? I bet it is.
Ant smell is for communicating with other ants. These are ant smellers not human. The ant-people have been controlling our governments. It’s true! Look it up!
My mother in law can do it, she’ll walk into a room, sniff disagreeably and say - “Huele a hormiga.”
I started smelling them after I had Covid XD
