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He's now talking about using scorpion venom to help men who can't get erections even from Viagra. That is because this venom causes uncontrollable and long-lasting erections. The problem is (not only this, which sounds very unpleasant but people want to market to men for some reason) is that it also causes hypersalivation, sweat, tear-flow, tremors, spastic paralysis and congestion of blood vessels in the major organ

After their first menstruation, girls in the Amazonian Ka'apor tribe are subjected to an ant ordeal. After the girls' hair is shaven off, large termite raiding ants, Neoponera commutata, are strung along their forehead and torso, and allowed to sting them repeatedly. ... The Wayapi tribe... tie the same termite hunting ant species in strings to the arms, legs, abdomen, back and brow of girls...

Woman-hating

The Brisbane Courier-Mail from 8 October 1936 features an article titled "Boy slapped for eight hours," which claims that '[e]ight hours of slapping, scolding, and shaking saved the life of Cecil Schultz (11)' after he was bitten by a snake. Survive he did, but it might not be unreasonable to suppose that this was not because of, but despite his treatment.

Instead, they regurgitate digestive enzymes to dissolve their immobilized prey, which they wrap tightly in a silken burrito of death, before ingesting it through their straw-like mouths.

Silken burrito of death. Nice touch, Jenner.

Like a gun that needs reloading, spending venom can result in a temporary disarmament, with the fearsome spider becoming a plump, juicy, defenceless meatball.

Just as the magic of a good curry is created by the combination and interplay of its ingredients, so does a syndrome of envenomation symptoms represent a toxic symphony.

o.O

The world of venom is a realm of self-guided missiles where even the blind are sharpshooters.

Every year bites by venomous snakes kill around 100,000 people. But this doesn't mean that snake venoms have evolved to kill humans. The vast majority of envenomations kill their victims too slowly to benefit the snake.

Over the course of several weeks Smith rated the pain of honeybee stings delivered to 25 locations on his body... After receiving hundreds of stings that covered the remotest corners of his anatomy... Smith concluded that the worst locations to be stung are your nostril, upper lip and penis shaft. Smith scored the pain at those sting sites as 9.0, 8.7 and 7.3, respectively... In 2015, Smith was duly awarded,

The garden ant Lasius neglectus, for example, uses its venom to combat fungal infections.