Ever stung by a bee and think it’s the worst? Well, there’s a new sting-o-meter developed by a researcher who seems to have been bitten by almost every insect possible, which may help you identify which insect bite causes the most amount of pain.
Researcher Justin Schmidt from the Southwestern Biological Institute, Arizona, has been bitten by 150 different bugs during his lifetime, which is why, he turned to develop a unique sting-o-meter which can effectively scale the pain caused by insect bites.
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Being quite experienced himself, Schmidt claims that the worse and the most painful bite is from that of a bullet ant, which he claims, “'makes you want to lay down and die.”
In contrast, the bite of a fire ant is much less painful. “They have this kind of sharp, piercing sting,” he claimed.
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On his unique scale, Mr. Schmidt has sorted out the bites from a fire ant as one, the bites from bumblebees and honeybees as two, the sting from warrior wasps, tarantula hawks and bullet ants to four.
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