14 animals that smell like snack foods

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14 animals that smell like snack foods

The relaxing scent of lavender is a good smell to have in your bedroom, or the calming scent of sandalwood, or perhaps sage. What is not a good smell to have in your bedroom is coriander. If you catch a whiff of this spice, it's time to call an exterminator.

Bed bugs release an alarm pheromone that to many people smells like coriander. The smells are reminiscent enough of each other that coriander has even been described as smelling like bed bugs! Entomologist Kenneth Haynes of the University of Kentucky notes, "In fact, older literature refers to the bed bug as the coriander bug. I've tried to smell the coriander scent in bed bug alarm pheromones and have not been able to make the connection, however."

If you have a large concentration of bed bugs, the smell moves beyond coriander and into the realm of musty gym shoes. Don't let coriander start to smell like musty gym shoes.
 
I've never smelled coriander in my bedroom, thankfully! 😀 Or musty gym shoes.
 
Good to know it isn't only my dog who has Fritos paws!

And man, I don't know that I'd want to get close enough to some of those animals to smell them.
 
Around here we have little black ants that my kids and I always call the banana candy ants because that's what they smell like when you squash them.

And we have the millipedes they talk about in the article, in fact when I was a science teacher I used to use them in demonstrations, but I described the smell as cherry cough syrup..which may be why I despise cherry coke. 😕

There was a bug that used to haunt my mothers vegetable garden that when you squashed it smelled like green apples
 
On occasions when selling a house they say the waft of freshly baked bread helps, but that is a false notion as it is the smell of cockroaches that were in the flour mill
and
that lovely smell of grilled Mr. Gordo. Sorry that is the accumulated effect from baked lice.
 
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