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  • Hey it's me Destin welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So we're in my daughter's bathroom?

  • I have been informed that there is a spider that ah,

  • well I'm the dad. It's what I do. I slay spiders.

  • And so before I destroy him in a fantastic way,

  • however I choose to do that, I'm going to use

  • these macro tubes on this camera to see if we can get some

  • close-up of a brown recluse. So anyway

  • this should be interesting. So here he is.

  • Let's put one more tube on here. Brown recluses have six

  • eyes instead of eight like spiders normally do. They're venomous

  • so they inject venom into the body. Most people say poisonous but it's actually venomous.

  • When brown recluses come in contact with people they only bite

  • about 50% of the people, they're not very aggressive. But, one other fact

  • that's interesting is that when they come in contact with daddies,

  • that have little girls, they die by fire

  • 100% of the time. I wonder if that's the web?

  • making material that just blew out the side?

  • Whatever. It's dead, and it won't hurt my girl.

  • OK now that seemed a little bit cruel but I don't normally mess around when it comes to my kids. Now before you complain

  • in the comments, the reason I didn't kill him immediately is I wanted people who live in this area

  • which is where brown recluse spiders live, I wanted them to know exactly what

  • they look like. You're looking for that upside down fiddle on their back.

  • Those are the spiders that have hemotoxins in their venom and will hurt you

  • really bad. These things can live for months without eating or drinking. They hide in

  • bedsheets and you get em out of your closet, not even thinking about it. Put em on your bed

  • and they bite you and before you know it you've got pieces of your body rotting off.

  • I don't always kill spiders, but when I do I try to do it with fire. Anyway, I'm Destin,

  • you're getting Smarter Every Day. Just kill em with fire, just do that for me. Have a good one.

  • Going back to the amazon next. Later.

  • [music]

  • It's a scorpion without a tail. - Oh man.

  • That is the ugliest beast I've ever seen.

  • [ Captions by Andrew Jackson ] captionsbyandrew.wordpress.com

  • Captioning in different languages welcome. Please contact Destin if you can help.

Hey it's me Destin welcome back to Smarter Every Day. So we're in my daughter's bathroom?

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