hello mr.newall i have a an odd question but i need this for my own inner statistics: can you smell ants?

Ha!

Potentially.

For some reason I have a ludicrously overdeveloped sense of smell.

Most people don’t believe me but I can tell when an incandescent bulb is going to blow by the smell, I can tell if someone has turned on the air-conditioning in another room with all the doors closed etc, I can normally tell if you have been outside at some point in the day and yes I can smell if it is going to rain. Petrichor is the best.

In my experience I normally know there are a number of ants nearby when I smell a slightly off combination of woody and acrid.