If I touch an ant I can certainly smell it on my finger but I wouldn’t be able to detect an ant in the room with me
I can’t do that, I think you have special ant powers
I can do this too.
Omg, this is peak nerd.
If this is a thing it’s def a special subset of ant smellers that would go ant hunting (whatever quantify of ants).
yeah a small % of folks can smell them.
Last time I was reading through comments from those who could, the common response was “sorta like raisins”
Spicy raisins
A little like cilantro
There was a brief moment, while I was going through SERE training, in the Navy; it was before we were “captured” but long enough that I hadn’t eaten in a while. We were in the low mountains of SoCal, dry and hot. Whenever we would stop movement for a moment and take a seat, I could smell when an ant was on me.
I didn’t recognize what the smell was at first until I saw an ant, after smelling it. I hooked him on my finger and brought him close to my nose and it was clear, he was the source.
I couldn’t describe it very well though, not a common smell to me. Never experienced it since.
Maybe it was the combination of no food or bathing, and heightened stress. My SiL also went through SERE, says she has no idea what I was talking about, and just makes fun of me about it. But she’s also the type of person who would lie about it, just to fuck with me.
So who knows.
You went through SERE training? Damn soldier, you’re harder than woodpecker lips! What was your MOS that required that training? I know someone who went through it and he said they locked him in a box that was too small to move in, and then played a recording of someone counting to 10 very slowly over and over again for hours. Did they do that to you?
It’s a genetic quirk, entirely possible they don’t have it and you do. There’s definitely a thing with real hunger and increased senses too though. I experienced the same thing in Iraq when we out ran our supply lines and went on severe rationing.
Fuck I have the stupid shitty cilantro gene and there’s some dudes with ant hunting genes?
Not fair :(
I can smell ants. I’ve eaten one before. They taste like iron. Like blood mixed with pepper. Idk why I told you that just now.
I put soap and cilantro into stuff i make so no one feels superior
“Now it sucks for me and you! Just kidding, I like the taste of soap.”
I love cilantro, but if I put enough on a taco or something I can taste a little bit of soapiness. It isn’t bad enough to put me off of it, but I get it.
It’s funny. Cilantro tastes weird and I don’t like it, but I wouldn’t say it tastes soapy. That said, whenever I have it, I always notice this weird taste, but never actually recognize it. Then I check the ingredients and there it is.
Cilantro in salsa is so good. Something about how the flavor of the tomato acts with it… I need to make some salsa now.
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.
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?
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:
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.
I can smell millipedes up close but not far away. I also can’t smell ants
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.
I have the same thing. Maybe not quite that powerful, but as a kid I used to root out ant hills to shove sticks in and be a general terror. I thought it was normal until I started dating a girl and we went on a picnic and pointed them out saying we shouldn’t eat there. If I smash one it smells like someone opened a can of gas in the room.
And when did Charles Xavier reach out to you?
When I was 14, but I asked if he had a sister cause I’m into girls with shaved heads, and he just waved his hand and gave me ADHD and then walked away.
Forget Westchester - my boy Shino here has a whole clan, come to Konoha
You’re a genetic masterpiece.
Yes, I hope she realized that she should have a family with that guy. Those genes need preserving
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.
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.
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.
You evolved to be their ultimate menace.
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.
He’s like an X-Men hero designed to find Ant-Man when he gets stuck between couch cushions or something.
Lee Mack can smell dead flies
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEBL5HR9Cuo&pp=ygUgbGVlIG1hY2sgc21lbGwgYSBmbHkgaW4gdGhlIHJvb20%3D
Damn, I really believed him
I can smell dead flies. They stink.
I equate it to the smell of juniper berries.
I could see “gasoline”. Maybe peppery.
