The smell of freshly cut grass on a warm summer day might make you think of lazy days in a hammock, sipping lemonade. But to the mangled grass producing that scent, it is the pungent perfume of pure terror…
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Sources:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/30573/what-causes-fresh-cut-grass-smell
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/329/5995/1075.abstract
Mown grass smell sends SOS for help in resisting insect attacks, researchers say
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140922145805.htm
That ‘fresh-mown lawn smell’ is actually a distress call to insects
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