@W6KME @silentLurker @CavedaleRhones

HAHAHAHA someone actually got stung by every single one of these insects for this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index

h/t @emily

@ai6yr @W6KME @silentLurker @CavedaleRhones @emily

The descriptions are amazing!

But also, this guy has the least reaction to stings that I have ever heard of

For him, the pain is incredibly brief. And he can't even tell the difference, it sounds like, between bees and yellow jackets, in pain level

'Schmidt set the sting of the Western honey bee at a pain level of 2 to be the anchoring value, basing his categorization of all other stings on it. He has categorized a variety of wasps, bees, and ants into pain level 2, including yellowjackets, the Asiatic honey bee, the trap-jaw ant, and the bald-faced hornet. The duration of the pain of the stings in this level is generally between five and ten minutes long'

For me, those guys are more like his description of the worst ever insect: "Paraponera clavata stings induced immediate, excruciating pain and numbness to pencil-point pressure, as well as trembling in the form of a totally uncontrollable urge to shake the affected part."In a later work, he described the sting as "pure, intense, brilliant pain...like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel."

And for me, the intense pain from bees and yellow jackets lasts about 3 days. Then there's another week or so of itching

(I did forget the little wild bees on my list last night. They aren't too bad)

@W6KME @ai6yr @silentLurker @CavedaleRhones @emily

People do vary a lot in their reactivity. I was working construction with a guy one time who got a yellow jacket inside the back of his shirt. He had like four stings on his back

I was like omg, do you want to go home for the day?! But he said he was fine. And the stings looked like mosquito bites look on me. Red about an inch across

On me, each one would be as big as the palm of your hand