How Much Insect Stings As Well As Bites Wound - Scientific Measurements
Justin Schmidt rated them for you lot as well as thence you'll know how much sympathy you lot tin privy beg for -
1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, nigh fruity. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 tiny spark has singed a unmarried pilus on your arm.
1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag rug & reaching for the low-cal switch.
1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rare, piercing, elevated assort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your mitt mashed inwards a revolving door.
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot as well as smoky, nigh irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
2.x Honey bee as well as European hornet.
3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold as well as unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of Hydrochloric acid on a newspaper cut.
4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 running pilus drier has been dropped into your bubble bathroom (if you lot teach stung past times i you lot mightiness also prevarication downwards as well as scream).
4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, vivid pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal alongside a 3-inch smash inwards your heel.
1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag rug & reaching for the low-cal switch.
1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 rare, piercing, elevated assort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your mitt mashed inwards a revolving door.
2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot as well as smoky, nigh irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
2.x Honey bee as well as European hornet.
3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold as well as unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of Hydrochloric acid on a newspaper cut.
4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 running pilus drier has been dropped into your bubble bathroom (if you lot teach stung past times i you lot mightiness also prevarication downwards as well as scream).
4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, vivid pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal alongside a 3-inch smash inwards your heel.
One of the worst stings was from Pogonomyrmex badius (an ant, above) which he “likened to hurting that mightiness last caused past times person turning a screw into the flesh’ or “ripping muscles as well as tendons.” Wow. That is serious dedication to your work. Anything that has ‘badius’ inwards its name, good i’m steering clear of.
But mayhap the worst sting of all goes to the Pepsis wasp (or Tarantula Hawk, yeah it kills tarantulas. Pictured below.). Rather than low-cal or fruity or shag-carpety, he described the hurting equally “…immediate, excruciating hurting that merely shuts downwards one’s powerfulness to create anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental dependent champaign merely does non locomote inwards these situations.”
Schmidt ended upwards rating 78 species of stinging insects. Check out roughly of his papers here:
Schmidt, J. O. 1986. Chemistry, pharmacology, as well as chemic ecology of emmet venoms, pp.425-508. In T. Piek [Ed.], Venoms of the Hymenoptera.. Academic Press, London
Schmidt, J. O. 1990. Hymenoptera venoms: striving toward the ultimate defense forcefulness against vertebrates, pp. 387-419. In D. L. Evans as well as J. O. Schmidt [Eds.], Insect defenses: adaptive mechanisms as well as strategies of prey as well as predators. State University of New York Press, Albany.
Schmidt, J. O., M. S. Blum, as well as W. L. Overal. 1984. Hemolytic activities of stinging insect venoms. Arch. Insect Biochem. Physiol. 1:155-160.
http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/05/16/schmidt-pain-index-which-sting/