toomanypancakes@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agoHow did you fuck up recently?message-squaremessage-square128linkfedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down13file-text
arrow-up1139arrow-down1message-squareHow did you fuck up recently?toomanypancakes@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months agomessage-square128linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agomillipedes produce hydrogen cyanide as a defense mechanism
minus-squaredandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoI think that’s why some of them smell like cherry coke - though I’ve never noticed a garden millipede smell that way.
minus-squareLedericas@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 months agoyea the smell of almonds is H-CN being produced, its nowhere enough to become toxic to people. i remember theres a video about lemurs getting high off of the millipedes secretion, i assume its hydrogen cyanide.
millipedes produce hydrogen cyanide as a defense mechanism
I think that’s why some of them smell like cherry coke - though I’ve never noticed a garden millipede smell that way.
yea the smell of almonds is H-CN being produced, its nowhere enough to become toxic to people. i remember theres a video about lemurs getting high off of the millipedes secretion, i assume its hydrogen cyanide.