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What sting feels like you’re walking over flaming charcoal? Does anything hurt worse? Explore the pain scale devised by entomologist Justin Schmidt and discover the most painful insect stings in the world.
Some of the insect stings Schmidt considered to be at a pain level of 1 include the Southern fire ant, the graceful twig ant, the Western paper wasp, the urban digger bee, and most small bees. The duration of the pain of insect stings categorized into Pain Level 1 generally is five minutes or less.
24 kwi 2023 · The index ranks stinging pain on a scale of 1 (red fire ant) to 4 (warrior wasp) and recounts Schmidt’s face-off with each insect with a poetic, and sometimes humorous, description.
25 kwi 2023 · The index ranks stinging pain on a scale of 1 (red fire ant) to 4 (warrior wasp) and recounts Schmidt’s face-off with each insect with a poetic, and sometimes humorous, description. We have depicted a selection of insects included in Schmidt’s Sting Pain Index above, scaling the insects by how agonizing their stings are.
The Schmidt Pain Index is a scale measuring the pain of insect stings on individuals. This guide takes you through insect stings from ants, wasps and more.
Schmidt sting pain index is a measure of the relative amount of pain that various insects of the order Hymenoptera (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) can cause humans, with both numerical ratings and sommelier-like verbal descriptions.
25 sty 2022 · Justin O. Schmidt, the one who made the Schmidt Sting Pain Index which categorizes the pain level of insect stings/bites. Photo courtesy of Justin Schmidt/NPR. Ever wonder what a...
