The worst thing about spring is that because I have the worst gene in the world (both my dad and I can smell ants) it's like someone is waving industrial cleaners under my nose 24/7.

you can smell WHAT

gasp can you smell the formic acid they give off??

F E A S T : Apparently some people think the acid smells like POPTARTS and I'm like??

🍉 catipede : yeah it's a thing and it took decades to figure out what the FUCK was happening.

If I'm outside, there's so much else happening in the natural world that the smell is lost to me, but when I'm indoors, it's like a constant cloud. The "normal" radius is five feet, but Dad and I can smell an ant trail through walls.

poptarts yeah no

that sounds god awful. the worst superpower

Whoah, that's kinda fascinating but also frustrating i can imagine!

omg what

sounds like you'd make a great exterminator

It is admittedly a neat party trick. Fortunately it'll stop being an issue by mid-May. It's only a Very Weird Burden To Shoulder in the spring months.

i've been told by a surprising number of people that my town was built on one big black ant hill