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minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·13 hours agoAs a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·12 hours agoIt releases the smell. It stays around in the room.
minus-squareNaz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·11 hours agoI 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.
minus-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·6 hours agoWait I thought wveryone can smell roaches
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·11 hours agoWe need people like you as health inspectors.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoYou 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.
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 hours agoWell, now I can’t help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 hours agoProbably better, I’ve never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.
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.
Wait I thought wveryone can smell roaches
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.
Probably better, I’ve never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.