http://abcnews.go.com/Health/PainManagement/story?id=4342241&page=1

Reading this is making me cringe.  

 

that was intence! Those all sound terrable!

 

And, to top off the list, I live in Arizona where I have quite a few from that list. I've seen many black widows, killed several rattlesnakes for survival purposes, killed a scorpion in the house and even have seen tarantulas and horny toads just to name a few. The Gila Monster is so reclusive that you have to FIND one to be bitten by one.

 

I remember an article posted a while back about a sub-species of Black Widow in Chile. Apparently men who have been bitten experience super human sex drive.

 

I'm amazed that the stonefish's sting caused it's victim pain in his kidneys for years afterwards...

Good lord, that's some venom, right there.

EDIT: The thing with the black widow and the increased sex drive...that's sort of touched on in Chuck Palanhuik's most recent book...one character relies on the priaprism (chemically-induced perma-boner) that can result from a widow's bite.

 

I'm so very very glad I live in the new england states.. we have a RARE occurance of a let-loose rattler or a Black widow. The thing I worry about is the recluses... *shudders*

 

I'd worry more about the recluses than the widows. If you are healthy you are very very likely to survive and heal from a widow bite, but those recluse bites can cause that condition where the body starts attacking the tissue and skin around the bite area.

I was shocked and the commonness of black widows in Vegas when I went in August. They are all over the place, saw two of them with webs on my friend's porch. Still the biggest one I have ever seen was hiding in our storage unit one time. Thing had a butt the size of a freakin golf ball.

 

Jeez, I knew about the venom of rattlesnakes but some of the others are horrifying.

 

gah, i frickin hate bugs. hate em hate em hate em

also,..

theres a little black spot on the sun today.

 

Cool read. I dig the tarantula hawk wasp's G1 Dirge coloring.  

 

You sure that wasn't just you staring at the sun too long?  

 

We got black widows all over the place here in Alabama. had recessed lighting in the covered walkway around a shopping center here that was so infested with those things, the maintenance men refused to change the bulbs out until they had a receipt from the pest control people.

And gah, those brown recluse spiders are f-n nasty. Basically, they inject you with meat tenderizer and let you decay away. Mom still has a discolored spot where one bit her back in the 60s.

oh, there is a species of jellyfish off Australia that scientists are studying. it was discovered that victims in lots of cases suffered priaprisms from their stings (then again the others died/nearly died.)

still, i have nightmares after watching those National Geographic shows about those bugs that burrow under your skin, cause those big pustules and then pop out as adult b-52s to lay more eggs on people.
eeeesh. that sucks a lot.

 

Yeah I don't think I'll ever leave new england in terms of permanent residence

Ditto, ditto, ditto

CREEPY

 

Reading about the Gila Monster, I have to say it's rather cool that one of the most painful venoms is now being used to help people.

 

Gila monster....now that's what I call "gila".

NOTE : crazy in local langauge  

 

waspinator never get what he wants.

 

I'm with you. Fuck bugs. Useless, disgusting creatures. Spiders especially. Send them straight to Hell...

Also, for some reason this Italian chef is also singing Opera....what a show.

 

Eh, that's the same ol' thing as yesterday...

 

They left the worst creature of the bunch: the common homo sapien female. Their venom lasts a gawdamn lifetime.