The text is a transcript of a video about the most terrible pest infestations and how people have tried to deal with them. Some examples are:
- A man who found 45 rattlesnakes under his house and released them instead of selling them.
- A Brazilian couple who accidentally blew up their lawn while trying to kill cockroaches with gasoline and matches.
- A family who had hundreds of bats in their house and had to catch and release them one by one.
- A woman who discovered thousands of marbled stink bugs in her bedroom and had to sweep them out for days.
- A beekeeper who removed 450,000 bees from a house that was declared uninhabitable due to the honeycombs and droppings.
- A man who grabbed a wasp nest with his bare hands and crushed it without getting stung.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. There are 7.7 million species of animals on Earth.
2. A Texas resident found 45 rattlesnakes under his house.
3. Rattlesnake venom can cause nausea, sweating, blurred vision, and death.
4. The resident called an expert to remove the snakes.
5. Over 250,000 snakes are caught annually at a festival in Texas.
6. The festival organizers pay over $10 per pound of snakes.
7. Cockroaches can survive without a head for several days.
8. A Brazilian couple's property was infested with cockroaches in 1919.
9. Bats carry bacteria and rabies.
10. A Reddit user found bats in his home and released them into the wild.
11. Ermine moth caterpillars create a silk-like web for protection against predators.
12. A dog in Kansas City ingested around 30-40 ladybugs, which are considered pests.
13. Harlequin ladybugs emit a foul smell when threatened or crushed.
14. In Poland, mosquitoes formed swarms resembling clouds due to ideal breeding conditions.
15. Residents built birdhouses for bats and swifts to control mosquito populations.
16. In California, swifts caused problems by entering chimneys and leaving droppings everywhere.
17. A Sydney mother found her daughter's room infested with giant crab spiders.
18. Crab spiders feed on pests like mosquitoes and are not dangerous to humans.
19. Bees made a farmhouse in Pennsylvania uninhabitable by building hives in the walls.
20. A beekeeper removed 450,000 bees from the farmhouse walls.
21. Bedbugs can live without food for up to 550 days and are difficult to eradicate.
22. Stink bugs destroy fruits and vegetables and invaded a South Carolina home in October 2017.
23. A man in Illinois had his cockroach-infested house declared uninhabitable and burned down by authorities.
24. Nomadic ants formed a bridge to reach and eat wasps from a nest in Costa Rica.
25. A Florida man removed a wasp nest with his bare hands without getting stung.
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