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minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·7 hours agoThey 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.
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·6 hours agoAs a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·6 hours agoIt releases the smell. It stays around in the room.
minus-squareNaz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·4 hours agoI 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.
minus-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 minutes agoWait I thought wveryone can smell roaches
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 hours agoWe need people like you as health inspectors.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoYou 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.
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 hours agoWell, now I can’t help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.
minus-squareosaerisxero@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 hours agoIn 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.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 hours agoProbably better, I’ve never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.
minus-squareEvil_Shrubbery@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down4·5 hours agoWhy tf would anyone crush ants? Is this a thing?
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down2·4 hours agoLike, killing them? One or two running across a table, and you just pop em?
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.
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.
Wait I thought wveryone can smell roaches
We need people like you as health inspectors.
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.
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.
Probably better, I’ve never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.
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?