Can Bugs Smell??

So i'm sitting at my computer reading my junk blog comment, yes you read that right, junk blog comment. no its not a comment from someone i don't like. Nor is it a comment that i consider to be junk, well yes it is. It's a comment that has nothing to do with my blogg, came from a non traceable source and is an advertisement for some random thing or another, anyway i'm sitting there reading and commenting on it when this fruit fly passes by and its bugging me so i blow on it to make it go away, and then i think, my breath must really be rank, haveing been alseep for an hour, eaten old cold beef and had milk, thats a pretty potent combonation and maybe thats why it flew away so quickly and then quiet suddenly dropped to the floor dead, just kidding about that last bit though. So now i'm woundering, can bugs smell? would they need that ability? for some reason i'm under the impression that bees smell and thats how they determin which hive they and others are from. and if they can't smell how do flies always manage to find a lovely stinking pile of crap or dead carcus? Or maybe they can see smell and thats why such a small creature can spend its intire life sarrounded by stuff we don't dare go near, not just becauase its gross but because it makes us gag. If they can't smell then to bugs attracted to things that smell like crap, and dead things and rotten fruit and flowers how do they find all that stuff? do they just fly around on some off chance that they'll find what they're looking for??

Laura: Dad, can bugs smell?
Dad: What????
Laura: Can bugs smell?
Dad: the have sencery organs but i don't think they smell they way we do

so there you have it folks they have sencery organs, which rases a different question..........had do you disect an insect?













shoo fly don't bother me, shoo fly don't bother me, shoo fly don't bother me, i belong to somebody (wish i belonged to smoebody)