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Genes be crazy
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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.

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Not just crushed ants, I smell it when they're scared and running, but undamaged, as well. Calm ants though, they don't smell to me. I always assumed it was a warning chemical to other ants, or a deterrent for predators with more sensitive sniffers than I.
Exactly, ants literally spray formic acid at anything that threatens them