Fun fact, stinkbugs produce a similar smell to cilantro. So to some people stinkbugs ironically smell nice.
What are you on about? Do you have different stinkbugs where you live? I like cilantro and stinkbugs smell nothing like it.
Try different genes. Cilantro tastes and smells like stinkbug to me, aka, disgusting.
I’ll link a reddit comment for source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Entomology/comments/b5kv3l/comment/ejepo22/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
And if you don’t want to open the link: “Stink bugs “stink” because of two chemicals: trans-2-decenal and trans-2-octenal. Interestingly, those two chemicals are also found in cilantro (Coriander sativum), for which the mystery of why some people hate the taste of cilantro with a passion has been researched; turns out that only if you have a specific variant of olfactory receptors you can actually smell these two chemicals. People who have these receptors perceive both stink bugs and cilantro as soapy and pungent, while all others perceive it as neutral to pleasant. The part of the population who perceives stink bugs / cilantro as unpleasant is dependent on genetic ancestry and ranges from 3-21%”
I struggle to believe that they’d be named stinkbugs if 80% of the population thinks they smell nice. Something doesn’t add up with the information you’re presenting.
Source: I like cilantro, and stinkbugs stink.
Just because its the same chemical doesn’t make it smell the same. Try taking a spoonful of vanilla extract and you will find it does not taste like the smell. The ration and volume of the volatiles also determines how it smells.
Well that’s because I didn’t say 80% :) I said “to some people” and the study also shows it varies from neutral to pleasant.
I like cilantro, and stinkbugs stink
Aight lemme just become a GMO so I can start likeling the smell I guess.
Some days I wish I could not smell it at all given how repugnant it smells to me.
Well yeah stinkbugs are repugnant.
Its the other way around, to some people cilantro have a similar taste than the smell of stinkbug.
For these people cilantro taste awful.
They smell vaguely like watermelons to me.
The past tense of yeet is yöted
It looks to my like an antenna going towards the camera, not a bitey tube
If you zoom in, you can see that the “beak” is behind the leg in the foreground actually.
This got me interested and I looked up heteropteran mouthparts. The best description I could find was here. Apparently the segmented larger part of the beak here is the labium giving support to the stylus. The stylus is the blackish tube that runs from the head through the labium.
I woke up once with what felt like a large scab between my lips, stuck primarily to the bottom one. In my sleep and stupor, I thought it maybe dried blood, or food, or perhaps I ate a large booger in the night. The aroma was something else, though. As seconds passed and my brain began to make sense of what was actually happening, I realized that I had an entire stinkbug pressed flat between my lips.
This one time I woke up in the middle of night to scratch an itch under my big tee shirt on my back, I reached back to do a lazy pinch, then felt a crunch and instinctively crushed the damn thing. It was a yellow jacket quite close to my spine.
Absolutely despise those. The moment it turns spring/summer they get everywhere and try everything to get inside your house.
