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minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·6 hours agoAs a tool-using species, killing them with something you won’t care about the smell being on seems pretty trivial.
minus-squareOokami38linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 hours agoIt releases the smell. It stays around in the room.
minus-squareNazlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·4 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-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 hours agoWe need people like you as health inspectors.
minus-squareOokami38linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 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-up5·5 hours agoWell, now I can’t help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.
minus-squareosaerisxero@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoIn 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.
minus-squareOokami38linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 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.
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.
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.
Probably better, I’ve never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.