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Trick or Treat Month: Creepy Crawlies with Lulu Miller!

SciShow Tangents

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Brown Recluse Spiders

Vida Bjornen on Discord asks, I used to hear that the brown recluse had a potent venom. Then I heard that it's actually a staff infection that does the majority of the damage in the things it bites. When they bite human skin, it causes cell death. It's called dermonocratic arachnidism. But all kinds of things like skin cancer, ulcers, can all be misdiagnosed as spider bites because we don't like spiders socially. They're categorized as creepy crawlies, even though they're just fine.

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