i only found out they had a smell a couple years ago, and i’m in my 30s. not because i can’t smell them though, but just because i hadn’t noticed it before.

Yeah… I can barely smell at all. Even normally strong smells like that of the urine of an unfixed male cat aren’t particularly impactful to me. I wouldn’t have even considered the potentiality that ants have a distinctive smell in spite of being aware that they use pheromone trails for navigation.

They do release formic acid which smells rank. But I’ve only ever smelled it from a large pile of dead ants. Not a few walking around outside or in a house.

Can I smell ants? I feel like I would have noticed if I could…

Oh my God. I’ve always thought ants stunk when I crush them, but my mom has always thought I was crazy. Glad to know I’m not.

I can only smell those flying ants that come out during the rains. That sweet sticky smell is another type of horror.

But… How do you even know you can smell ants? Why did you try it? Or can you smell them from meters away?

You got me. I snorted ants and now they are tickling my brain

They don’t smell AWFUL per say, they just have a very particular smell.

The weird minty smell?

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I can smell them when they’re dead. Otherwise, not usually?

Huh didn’t know other people couldn’t smell ants but for me I find i have to get close and sniff them to get a cent I also get the same cent from dead spiders and I wouldn’t call it offensive but it is quite distinct so it gets a huh out of me every time I catch the cent

Worst.

X-Men mutation.

Ever.

U can taste the ants

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