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Bug Bites
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Some are itchy, some are painful, some go totally unnoticed by us every single day...bugs have such variety in the ways they chomp, some chomps aren't even from bug mouths, but from bug butts! Join us while we debate, query, and learn all we can about the wide world of bug bites.
SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!
Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!
And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen
[This, That, or the Other: These Ouches Are No Slouches]
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12103
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10878/sting-wild
[Trivia Question]
Size of giant toe-biting water bugs found in Cyprus
https://travaux.pensoft.net/article/94457/
https://blog.abchomeandcommercial.com/do-water-bugs-bite/
https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/20/massive-bug-sighted-keep-your-toes-out-of-the-water/
[Fact Off]
Epomis beetle larvae and adults eat frogs as role-reversal predators
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025161
Bumble bees bite plant leaves to make them flower early
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay0496
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/
https://wisconsinbumblebees.entomology.wisc.edu/about-bumble-bees/life-cycle-and-development/
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/67/17/4925/2197656
[Ask the Science Couch]
Causes of itchiness and how calamine lotion / zinc oxide works
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862869/
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/how-stop-bug-bites-itching
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532860/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02090/full
https://jsstd.org/calamine-lotion/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120804/
Patreon bonus: Bugs with big mandibles or bite marks (even if they rarely bite humans)
https://pukaha.org.nz/the-wacky-world-of-new-zealand-weta/
https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/2995
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stag-beetles.html
https://www.nps.gov/articles/giant-water-bug.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Beaded lacewing (Lomamyia latipennis) larvae paralyze termites with farts before eating them
https://www.wired.com/2015/06/silent-deadly-fatal-farts-immobilize-prey/
281 jaksoa
Manage episode 432834935 series 2460280
Some are itchy, some are painful, some go totally unnoticed by us every single day...bugs have such variety in the ways they chomp, some chomps aren't even from bug mouths, but from bug butts! Join us while we debate, query, and learn all we can about the wide world of bug bites.
SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!
Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!
And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen
[This, That, or the Other: These Ouches Are No Slouches]
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12103
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10878/sting-wild
[Trivia Question]
Size of giant toe-biting water bugs found in Cyprus
https://travaux.pensoft.net/article/94457/
https://blog.abchomeandcommercial.com/do-water-bugs-bite/
https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/20/massive-bug-sighted-keep-your-toes-out-of-the-water/
[Fact Off]
Epomis beetle larvae and adults eat frogs as role-reversal predators
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025161
Bumble bees bite plant leaves to make them flower early
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay0496
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/
https://wisconsinbumblebees.entomology.wisc.edu/about-bumble-bees/life-cycle-and-development/
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/67/17/4925/2197656
[Ask the Science Couch]
Causes of itchiness and how calamine lotion / zinc oxide works
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862869/
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/how-stop-bug-bites-itching
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532860/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02090/full
https://jsstd.org/calamine-lotion/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120804/
Patreon bonus: Bugs with big mandibles or bite marks (even if they rarely bite humans)
https://pukaha.org.nz/the-wacky-world-of-new-zealand-weta/
https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/2995
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stag-beetles.html
https://www.nps.gov/articles/giant-water-bug.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Beaded lacewing (Lomamyia latipennis) larvae paralyze termites with farts before eating them
https://www.wired.com/2015/06/silent-deadly-fatal-farts-immobilize-prey/
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