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The 10 most painful stings on the planet

Started by Still Waters , May 25 2012 09:09 PM
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#1    Still Waters

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 09:09 PM

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Most of us will have felt the pain of a bee sting. Luckily most of us will have avoided the dreaded pain of a tarantula hawk or a fire ant.

Justin Schmidt felt all three of these - and 147 other horrible, burning sensations - after a dedicated life-long career devoted to insects.

On numerous fieldwork trips, The University of Arizona entomologist would find himself digging up living colonies of creatures, who in turn were not happy with this destructive human scooping them into bags - and promptly sank their fangs, stingers or pincers into him.

Still, no pain, no gain, and Schmidt turned his experiences into the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, ranking 78 species in a list which, while subjective, was put together by the man who must surely know best, ranking their pain on a scale of 1 to 4.

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 10:20 PM

Reminds me of an episode of Gilligan's Island.  The Professor allowed himself to be bitten by a fly thought to be deadly.  Mr Howell said : OH!!!! An eggheaded nut to the very end!!
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Posted 25 May 2012 - 10:55 PM

I love Schmidt's descriptions of the stings! lol

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Posted 25 May 2012 - 11:12 PM

I've only had the fire ant and some other ant bites.   I guess if the Japanese giant hornet bites, you're just - dead.

He also didn't list any spider bites.
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Posted 26 May 2012 - 03:43 AM

 and then, on 25 May 2012 - 10:20 PM, said:

Reminds me of an episode of Gilligan's Island.  The Professor allowed himself to be bitten by a fly thought to be deadly.  Mr Howell said : OH!!!! An eggheaded nut to the very end!!
Sorry if the Gilligan's Island reference doesn't make sense...I grew up on reruns....

Me too, only my reruns were Green Acres, I Dream of Genie and Bewitched :D



I hope never to experience any of these insect stings... thusfar I've managed to avoid ever being stung by a bee!
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Posted 26 May 2012 - 10:48 AM

Hope he had no allergies...

 little_dreamer, on 25 May 2012 - 11:12 PM, said:

I guess if the Japanese giant hornet bites, you're just - dead.
It's not that bad! You'll still have a decent chance little_dreamer! Without any treatment, possible death.

Edited by Timonthy, 26 May 2012 - 10:50 AM.

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Posted 26 May 2012 - 03:05 PM

I don't know how many times I've been stung by yellow jackets and honeybees...I never thought they were that bad. I stop what I'm doing, pull out the stinger and go on my way.

Meh, now I'm not so worried about the rest of the stingy things around here.

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Posted 26 May 2012 - 04:17 PM

I hate wasps...

Especially when they land on my fedora.

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Posted 26 May 2012 - 04:36 PM

 little_dreamer, on 25 May 2012 - 11:12 PM, said:


He also didn't list any spider bites.

He studies insects.
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Posted 26 May 2012 - 06:05 PM

i was once stung by one bee before , somehow it get into my shirt and keep stinging my back . it ain't funny at all

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Posted 26 May 2012 - 09:33 PM

The worst I had was an Australian bullant they see you coming & jump on you then bite you with huge mandibles then sting you & sting you & sting you etc etc oh yeah & while your trying to get that ant of you its mates jump on you as well & these ants are large,huge,bloody big.

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 01:24 AM

I was stung on my eyelid, hurt as hell

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 02:13 AM

Stung in the corner of my eye by a Yellow Jacket when i was a kid,the pain was horrendous couldn't see for days due to the severe swelling....
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Posted 27 May 2012 - 02:31 AM

I got stung on the lower lip by a yellow jacket. It hurt like hell and I looked like the elephant man for a while. By far the worst was an assassin bug.

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Posted 27 May 2012 - 03:00 AM

I think it all depends on the person's pain threshold and also where on the body they have been stung.  My daughter, when she was ten years old,  was stung 18 times by wasps (yellow jackets) after inadvertantly venturing too close to a nest.    She cried, obviously, but within an hour she was up and running around again. Had it been me I would have died! lol
The hornets here in Thailand are huge and when I first came over here I would run a mile whenever I saw one. Now, I dont bother because they are not like the European wasps that just attack you for looking at them. These hornets leave you alone :)
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