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09-04-2011, 08:09 AM | #1 |
I wonder . . .
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September 4, 2011 Another Kind of Bee Man
Schmidt likes to sting himself. He does it so he can rate the level of resulting pain. From this experience, he created the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. He rates the stings of hymenoptra on a scale of one to four. 1.0 Sweat Bee 1.2 Fire Ant 1.8 Acacia Ant 2.0 Black Faced Hornet 2.0 Yellowjacket (US) or Wasp (Europe) 2.0 Honey Bee 2.0 European Hornet 3.0 Red Harvester Ant 3.0 Paper Wasp 4.0 Tarantula Hawk Wasp 4.0+ Bullet Ant About the Bullet Ant's sting: "Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail in your heel." "Wave upon wave of burning pain which will not reduce for over a day." Do not try this at home. |
09-04-2011, 08:11 AM | #2 |
I wonder . . .
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09-04-2011, 09:38 AM | #3 |
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My most painful ever was a bald-faced wasp. Does he take suggestions? I'd like him to scale that for me.
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09-04-2011, 10:04 AM | #4 |
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Fire ants sound horrific.
They're ANTS, but they are also BURNING. But if they hurt less than a wasp then I can deal with them. It's interesting, but subjective of course. Mum & I swell up horribly from some bites, and itch for weeks. Dad gets a small bump and barely notices it. If I get a scratch from Diz while playing the area swells up and itches horribly too, but it passes with about 30 minutes. Oh hang on, he rates the actual sting, not the after-effects. Meh - never been stung by anything that really hurt. It's all about the recovery for me. And even that pales into significance compared to when I came out in hives from an unidentified food allergy. Here (Cellar link) and here (ditto).
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09-04-2011, 11:10 AM | #5 |
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The worst I've had per that list is the paper wasp. They dive bomb you too, and intentionally sting to get you to go away! They're everywhere down here, always check doorways, outdoor lighting fixtures, nooks and crannies for hives before you stick your fingers in them.
Never heard of the bullet ant.
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09-04-2011, 11:57 AM | #6 |
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Justin Schmidt's Pain Chart is written like some wine reviews. Really quite well done.
Another masochist, Christopher Starr, has made similar studies. Wikipedia has articles on both. In Vietnam, there are flat brown ants that live in leaf litter. Their stings, delivered right through clothing, felt like being hit by a baseball bat. |
09-04-2011, 04:10 PM | #7 |
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That shit. Fuck all of it.
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09-05-2011, 09:11 AM | #8 | |
I wonder . . .
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Quote:
I hope you figured out what is was so you can avoid it in the future.
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09-05-2011, 12:00 PM | #9 |
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Actually, no.
It was my second attack and miles worse than the first. Two different GPs said it wasn't worth testing. Then again, they were ten years apart, so it's not something I eat often... I just hope not to get a third to see what the next stage is like. Hives on my eyeballs probably.
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09-05-2011, 07:38 PM | #10 |
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We get a lot of paper wasps around my part of the country here. You're right Stormie, they do exactly what you said, in squadrons! The dirty nasty little creatures.
Fire is my friend. :evilgrin:
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09-06-2011, 12:32 PM | #11 |
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I got a slightly alarmed call from my girlfriend a couple weeks ago saying that there was a swarm of wasps trapping her in the house. She'd been stung once and now could not get in or out of her house from the front door. I came over and found these guys. They'd colonized the grill cover. We could see them flying down to the bottom and disappearing. I didn't know what I was facing at the time, so I stole this picture. I setup the camera and put it down on the ground and shot upward. These guards were not amused.
I would up capturing the whole colony in a bag (which I rebagged several times) and I'm just going to starve them. By the time summer's over, I'll be able to take the grill cover back out of the bags, clean off the bodies of these yellowjackets and cover the grill again. For the record, in my capture and cleanup I was stung once. It didn't hurt very much, a little, but the next day the itching was fierce. I still have a red sore on the back of my hand ten days later.
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09-07-2011, 03:24 AM | #12 |
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They just let you bag them??
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09-07-2011, 10:37 AM | #13 |
Are you knock-kneed?
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I love the way the three in the middle are looking at you with their little antennas pricked.
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09-07-2011, 10:51 AM | #14 |
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Why, yes, of course. They were very cooperative and helpful.
Well, that and the fact that I approached the grill cover with an large open trash bag. I put the opening of the bag over the opening of the grill cover and swallowed them up, so to speak. I repeated this a couple times with a couple more bags. As the yellowjackets out on patrol returned to find their hive home condemned, I sprayed them with -- hehehe -- window cleaner, since that's what I had in a spritz bottle, and when they were wetted and downed, I smashed them. This took care of the remaining twenty or so.
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09-07-2011, 12:53 PM | #15 |
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I would just buy a new grill cover. Sometimes ya just gotta let go.
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