- Hey there, welcome to Life Noggin.
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.
You know, to get the Life Noggin fam here
to experience what it's like to have a hot summer day.
Got to say, I'm not a fan,
but then again, I guess if I was,
we wouldn't be in this predicament anyway.
No? Okay.
Wait, Triangle Bob, no, not water.
That stuff is dangerous in here.
Anyway, you humans aren't the only ones
that try to take advantage of having fun in the sun.
Insects are becoming more active as well.
And unfortunately, some of them can be pretty annoying,
especially if they bite you.
That got me thinking of the most wild things that can happen
from a bug bite or sting.
And for this, we're gonna just go ahead
and include spiders and other creepy crawlies here as well.
Now we're looking for the weirdest things,
not just the most painful or deadly.
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.
Yeah, but no, we're looking for more than just pain.
First off since they are probably on everyone's mind
now that it's summer again,
let's talk about those pesky mosquitoes.
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.
We're talking things like swelling, fevers, and hives.
Mosquitoes can also carry certain diseases
like the West Nile virus, malaria and yellow fever,
transferring them to you with their saliva.
The West Nile virus can lead to paralysis
and severe neurological symptoms in rare cases,
so it can get quite horrific.
Another wild bite that makes our list
comes from the Brazilian wandering spider.
Their bites can lead to intense pain
and pretty severe medical complications
like low blood pressure, hypothermia
and a slowed or quickened heartbeat.
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.
Yeah, I said it.
Listen, don't demonetize me YouTube, okay?
Hey, get out of here.
This is for science.
On the topic of spiders,
both the brown recluse spider and the black widow
can have pretty nasty bites.
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.
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.
Our last contender for weirdest bug bite
comes from the lone star tick.
These strange little creatures have a single goal,
to turn everyone into a vegetarian.
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.
Their byte 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.
But hey, those are just the weirdest things that I found.
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.
Curious to know how we can destroy all the mosquitoes?
You should watch this video next.
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.
I mean, one study back in the day
said that a single bat could catch up to 10 mosquitoes
in a minute.
As always my name is Blocko,
this has been Life Noggin.
Don't forget to keep on thinking.