• BigBenis@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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

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        6 months ago

        When I was a kid it was a thing to stick a stick into a nest of ants so they’d piss on it so you could then suck/sniff the stick for a… sensation.

        I never did as I didn’t want to bother the ants.

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        6 months ago

        I can register formic acid if I touch an ant or am fairly close. Probably wouldn’t smell an ant from a distance, though