I count myself among the unlucky folks who are allergic to bee stings, rendering American apitherapy ineffective for me. What’s apitherapy, you ask? It’s the use of bee products – specifically bee venom – as a natural medical treatment. Considered effective in alleviating symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS) and rheumatoid arthritis, bee venom is a ...
Dating all the way back to Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, you can find stories about snakes. Most of these stories in some way or another mention the snake’s tongue. Why the fascination with the tongue of the snake? Well, it could be the almost hypnotic way that they snake flickers it ...
Fire ants are small and fierce creatures. Much like bees, fire ants have stingers loaded with poison, and can attack in swarms of hundreds. However, what makes fire ants even more dangerous is their ability to sneak up on you and climb on your skin without any warning, as well as their ability to sting ...
There are four different basic species of venomous snakes which live in the United States. The Coral snake, on average is the smallest of any of these species. Although small in size, the Coral snake is by far the most venomous snake native to North America. More than five times more venomous than its closest ...
Usually the deadliest snake would be the one that just bit you. Of the 2,000 different species of snakes in the world, there are 6 that hold a fierce reputation. All measured for size, volume, toxicity of venom, personality, and deaths caused, these selected snakes are topped for being the most fatal of all of ...
In the United States, we have only two spiders that are known to have potentially fatal bites when they bit a human. Those two spiders are the brown recluse spider and the black widow spider. Knowing what the spiders look like and what to do in the event that you or someone you know is ...
There are scores of urban myths floating around about snake bites and the proper methods with which to treat them. Unfortunately, these myths have been accepted as truth too often and have resulted in senseless deaths and injuries related to snake bites. If you are bitten by a snake, these are the things that you ...
Not too long ago as I was tending my backyard garden, I got about three nasty pricks on the nape. The pain was excruciating for me to realize at once that I was being attacked by wasps and had to leave the area immediately. When I had somehow recovered from the shock, I thought about ...
In recent Spider-Man books, Eddie Brock is Anti-Venom, a vigilante with a white symbiote and the ability to heal people. However, long ago, May of 1988 to be exact, Eddie Brock first became Venom. In Amazing Spider-Man #298, Spider-Man was able to get away from the symbiote in a church, where Eddie happened to be ...