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Hey there, welcome to Life Noggin.
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With many of my friends going through the hot months of summer, my animator thought it would be a good idea to turn off all the cooling units in his CPU.
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You know, to get the Life Noggin fam here to experience what it's like to have a hot summer day.
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Gotta say, I'm not a fan, but then again, I guess if I was, we wouldn't be in this predicament anyway.
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No? Okay.
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Wait, Triangle Bob, no, not water.
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That stuff is dangerous in here.
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Anyway, you humans aren't the only ones that try to take advantage of having fun in the sun.
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Insects are becoming more active as well.
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And unfortunately, some of them can be pretty annoying, especially if they bite you.
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That got me thinking of the most wild things that can happen from a bug bite or sting.
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And for this, we're gonna just go ahead and include spiders and other creepy crawlies here as well.
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Now we're looking for the weirdest things, not just the most painful or deadly.
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If you want to know about painful bites, go ahead and look up things like tarantula hawks, bullet ants, and velvet ants, or as they're more adorable called cow killers.
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Yeah, but no, we're looking for more than just pain.
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First off since they are probably on everyone's mind now that it's summer again, let's talk about those pesky mosquitoes.
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While mosquito bites for many people are little more than itchy bumps that make you praise the aloe vera gods, some people can have far worse reactions.
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We're talking things like swelling, fevers, and hives.
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Mosquitoes can also carry certain diseases like the West Nile virus, malaria and yellow fever, transferring them to you with their saliva.
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The West Nile virus can lead to paralysis and severe neurological symptoms in rare cases, so it can get quite horrific.
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Another wild bite that makes our list comes from the Brazilian wandering spider.
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Their bites can lead to intense pain and pretty severe medical complications like low blood pressure, hypothermia and a slowed or quickened heartbeat.
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And things can get extremely weird if you have um, male genitalia, that's because the bites of these spiders can cause a person to have a long painful erection.
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Yeah, I said it.
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Listen, don't demonetize me YouTube, okay?
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Hey, get out of here.
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This is for science.
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On the topic of spiders, both the brown recluse spider and the black widow can have pretty nasty bites.
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The bite of a brown recluse spider can be deadly and is known to cause necrosis in rare cases where the tissue around the bite itself starts to die.
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A bite from a black widow has its own set of problems, potentially leading to latrodectism, which is an illness categorized by muscle rigidity, vomiting and excessive sweating.
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Our last contender for weirdest bug bite comes from the lone star tick.
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These strange little creatures have a single goal, to turn everyone into a vegetarian.
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Well, maybe not that exactly, but their bites have been known to cause people to develop a meat allergy, specifically with red meat called alpha-gal syndrome.
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Their bite transmits a sugar molecule called alpha-gal into your body, which can trigger an immune system reaction that may lead to mild or severe meat allergies.
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But hey, those are just the weirdest things that I found.
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Let me know in the comments below the strangest bug bite that you've ever heard of, or if there are any other bugs you want me to talk about next.
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Curious to know how we can destroy all the mosquitoes?
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You should watch this video next.
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Hmm, okay, well then maybe we could go more natural route and get a bunch of animals together that eat mosquitoes, like bats, to wipe them out.
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I mean, one study back in the day said that a single bat could catch up to 10 mosquitoes in a minute.
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As always my name is Blocko, this has been Life Noggin.
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Don't forget to keep on thinking.