• Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    30·
    13 hours ago

    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.

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.caEnglish
      71·
      13 hours ago

      As a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.

        • Naz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7·
          10 hours ago

          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.

          • Ookami38@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            10 hours ago

            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.

          • osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org
            3·
            10 hours ago

            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.