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Schmidt’s index is full of brilliant stuff.
Red Fire Ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch.
Tropical Fire Ant: You should have learned, but the carpet is the same, and when you again reach for the light switch, the shock mocks you.
Southern Fire Ant: It happens on the third day, as you reach for the light switch, and you’re wondering when you will ever learn.
Giant Ant: A pulsing sting with some flavour. You stepped into a salt bath with an open wound.
Glorious Velvet Ant: Instantaneous, like the surprise of being stabbed. Is this what shrapnel feels like?
Warrior Wasp: Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?
Tarrantula Hawk Wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath.
Absolute lunatic.
Tarrantula Hawk Wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath.
The first time I ever saw one of these it was dragging a paralyzed tarantula back to its nest. That big fucker stopped what it was doing, turned around, and stared at me like it was sizing me up. It then turned back around and continued dragging the tarantula across the ground like, “Oh. It’s just a human. Not an actual threat. No biggie.”
No biggie is right. No way in hell I was getting anywhere close to a 3 inch long wasp.
I was at a bbq when an asian giant hornet landed near us. Damn near reconsidered moving the entire setup to get away from it, but eventually it flew off
I’ve been stung by a velvet ant (although not a glorious one) and that’s honestly pretty spot on. I still remember that hot poker feeling, and they move so fast I didn’t even see the sting happen! That was my first lesson that fuzzy is not always friend 🥲
Back when I was in the military I saw one on the sidewalk in Texas as I was stepping forward, too late to abort. It was fine, completely unfazed by my combat boots. It had to fit in between one of the treads, but still. Serious little critters.
How did he know what getting electrocuted to death feel like?
This reminds me of Shulgin’s drug rating scale, and some of the experience reports of him and his friends in PIHKaL and TIHKaL
Inspired by the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Michael L. Smith did us all a favour and answered the obvious follow up question on which body parts hurt the most when stung. He had honey bee guards sting him in 25 locations, multiple times to account for variability, over 38 days.
Results:
The three least painful locations were the skull, middle toe tip, and upper arm (all scoring a 2.3). The three most painful locations were the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft (9.0, 8.7, and 7.3, respectively).
He and Schmidt were awarded with a shared Ig Noble Price for their efforts.
The shaft was only a 7.3?!?
Well we know what they’re into…
I guess that means he killed 25 bees. Should have used a hornet instead.
75 bees actually, 3 rounds of stinging.
A sting from a honey bee is familiar to many because of its world-wide distribution. The sting can be reliably provoked, and standardized, making it an ideal experimental stimulus. Furthermore, its rating as the center point of the Schmidt pain scale suggests it may be a useful standard. The present study therefore used honey bee stings to determine whether sting location impacts painfulness, and how painfulness varies by location.
Reads as: honey bees are cheap to acquire and I ain’t letting no hornet sting my private parts.
Was only the shaft part of the penis tested?
Where did a taint sting land?
Between the balls and anus.
Tongue? Eye ball? Penis head?
As a trans woman, can confirm, getting electrolysis on the upper lip is the stuff of nightmares. i can’t imagine something as big as a bee stinger hitting you there.
As someone who has had pimples on his nostril before, I believe this 100%. That shit was inordinately painful.
I didn’t even know sweat bees could sting. When I drove a cab I used to sit in a field with my feet sticking out the window and they’d inevitably come land on me and suck on my toes. I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense to sting your food source if you don’t have to, though.
I bet he’d be friends with Coyote Peterson.
Man I absolutely adored his channel when my kids were toddlers. His love and energy for animals was a straight homage to Steve Irwin.
And then he started doing unboxing videos… haven’t thought of him since.
Honestly, I only ever saw a few of his videos and they were all about getting stung. I never saw particular love and care for animals, I guess excluding stinging insects, but I could see how that would match his energy.
Unboxing doesn’t seem like it really matches his vibe, I agree.
Befor the sting stuff they were a serious nature/ wildlife education channel It was good then, the other stuff was too over the top for me.
Interesting to know - thanks!
Well, it’s SOMEONE ELSE getting bitten, but close enough.
Of course it’s JJBA
Sweat bee’s never going to recover after getting called fruity like that
Who better to come up with a scale than a connoisseur.
I mean, where is the difference to hot, spicy food?
Imagine Hot Ones, but with insect stings.
