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minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down2·28 days 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-up16·28 days agoIt releases the smell. It stays around in the room.
minus-squareNaz@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·28 days 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-up18·28 days agoWe need people like you as health inspectors.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·28 days 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-squareScubus@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·27 days agoWait I thought wveryone can smell roaches
minus-squareGreyEyedGhost@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·28 days agoWell, now I can’t help but wonder if burning them is better or worse.
minus-squareOokami38@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·28 days agoProbably better, I’ve never tried it. I just imagine a bunch of tiny fireballs running around.
minus-squareosaerisxero@kbin.melroy.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up3·28 days 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.
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.
Wait I thought wveryone can smell roaches
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.
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.