Cavedale RhônesCame across a Velvet Ant today. Cute little bug that is not an ant, but a wingless wasp with a serious sting. It is nicknamed “Cow Killer”, so you don’t want to mess with them! #Insects
AI6YR Ben@ai6yr You can test it if you want 🤣🫣. According to my 8 year old grandson, the African version which has red fur, is the real Cow Killer. He is a student of dangerous stuff in the world. 😉
W6KME@CavedaleRhones @ai6yr good thing they are such chill things, because they're everywhere here.
@W6KME @CavedaleRhones We have Tarantula Hawks, which I steer clear of. They have a reputation for dispensing immense pain.
@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
ater@ai6yr @W6KME @silentLurker @CavedaleRhones @emily He also had a protege who got himself stung all over by a honey bee to figure out where it would hurt the worst, giving us this lovely scientific diagram.
(Spoiler: the three most painful locations were the nostril, upper lip, and penis shaft )
Bytebro 🇬🇧 🇺🇦 🇬🇱Oh Goddess, I'm sure I've read about, might have been a tribe, or a local native population, within which some older adolescents would deliberately get their willies stung by bees bcs allegedly it would make their willies 'bigger'. In my world I'd be going "Nah, yer alright mate - yours is bigger, OK?"