Schmidt Sting Pain Index Full List

In 1983 entomologist dr.

Schmidt sting pain index full list. And that s all from one sting. According to the schmidt sting pain index the bullet ant has the worst known insect sting. Smith panama us uk the netherlands for carefully arranging for honey bees to sting him.

Sting was born gordon matthew sumner on 2 october 1951 in wallsend north tyneside tyne and wear england the eldest of four children of audrey cowell a hairdresser and ernest matthew sumner an engineer and milkman. Over the years he has sampled and logged the stings from around 150 species of hymenoptera wasps bees hornets and ants. Schmidt he described the pain like walking over flaming charcoal with three inches of nails embedded in your heel.

Schmidt entomologist and creator of the schmidt sting pain index. The bullet ant s sting is currently the highest on schmidt s sting pain index at 4 0. A single sting is comparable to being shot with a bullet ergo the name.

Like the warrior wasp the sting of the bullet ant also scores a full 4 on schmidt s sting pain index. You call that someone dr. And to michael l.

Schmidt spent over a decade subjecting himself to bug bites and stings and describing his experiences with an almost poetic sensibility. Schmidt began ranking stinging insects on a scale from 1 4 putting himself in harm s way for science creating the schmidt sting pain index and authoring the. The emperor s new groove.

The intense pain lasts a full 24 hours and can lead to vomiting nausea and cardiac dysrhythmia. He received his name from a striped sweater he wore which looked like a bee. When megatron arrived the good robots told the soldiers to fall back and seeing the pontiac trying to cover the retreat of his men lennox tried to tell the good robot to fall back as well but.