• xwolpertinger@lemmy.world
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        7 months ago

        Me who spent months taking Tupperware boxes full of cockroaches out of the freezer and separating them by hand because our ants were picky eaters: I still smell them, to this day.

        Thanks ants. Thants.

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        7 months ago

        yikes. how do you react when you get a whiff? is it already too late and you don’t smell them until they are next to you, or is it a general “oh wow you have a roach prob in this house”

        • Cikos@lemmy.world
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          7 months ago

          if its in my room, that shitling better gtfo my place. if they just arrived i can usually smell them when theyre around 1m off me. but if they been chilling in the room i can smell them once i enter the room. imagine like walking little turd. the more they are the worse the smell.

    • snapoff@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      The smell like pepper to me. Well, you know how when you crush bricks or rocks it kinda has a peppery smell? It’s that pepper scent.

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      7 months ago

      100%

      I can smell them to the point I know when an area has an abundance of ant hills.

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      7 months ago

      I can, they also taste absolutely abhorrent and ruin food they are in for me. It’s a very bitter chemical taste and smell.