[h3]Bug-sting scale with funny definitions [/h3] The Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index is a colorful entomologist's descriptions of the vairous pain levels of different bug stings. Justin is a guy who has been stung many, many times, and his descriptions are god-awful funny:
[ul][li]1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm. [/li][li]1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch. [/li][li]1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek. [/li][li]2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door. [/li][li]2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue. [/li][li]2.x Honey bee and European hornet. [/li][li]3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail. [/li][li]3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of Hydrochloric acid on a paper cut. [/li][li]4.0 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream). [/li][li]4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail in your heel. [/li][/ul] [a href="vny!://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index"]Link To The Bug Sting Pain Scale[/a]
How do you rate the tax sting?
anal with no ky.
LMAO
that is an awesome link borken!
I was hoping to find various spider bites in the list...
I have heard that a brown recluse bite is nearly painless, until the skin starts to fester and ulcerate the next week after
I wonder where a black widow bite rates, or a common wolf spider, etc?
I'd like to know why some people get bitten, and others don't. Seems unfair, cuz I always get bitten.
I don't seem to be plagued too much by bugs...occasionally but not often. I read somewhere once that fair people are less likely to be bitten by mosquitoes. This might have something to it. I'm quite fair and they don't bite me !
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I used to be nailed by mosquitos all the time when I was younger.. at one point I counted over thirty bites on one of my legs.
Now they dont really bother me.. maybe I stink too much now?
are those baby black widows?
a buddy and I were just talking today about this topic... he just saw his first widow of the season, I saw one about a month or so ago... the big ones are so creepy looking
I don't know. They look like they have red eyes. (//forums/richedit/smileys/10.gif)
More baby spiders. Can you identify them?
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I've hardly ever got bitten, or stung, by anything at all - although once a nest of wasps decided to take temporary residence in my hair.
Gopher wrote:
I've hardly ever got bitten, or stung, by anything at all - although once a nest of wasps decided to take temporary residence in my hair.[/DIV]
Oh yeah? That must have sucked!
I didnt have that happen, but my closest thing is when my brother and I found a wasps nest in an older sailboat we had in the back yard. We quickly dropped the boat and tried to figure out to do next. We tried using a long stick to knock the nest but the wasps were too smart and stung us some more. lol.
We then decided to use a 'fogger' that we had.. get it started and spraying this spray that made us gag and choke. And instead of dying all the wasps came out and stung us. Afterwards (the neighbors at this point were pointing and laughing), we read the instructions and they said 'for mosquito and fly use only'. Hmm great, not for bees and wasps, AFTER we got stung by those flying fortresses.
We ended up going down to Ukranian Tire and buying two cans of bee killer each. We then wrapped ourselves in heavy clothes with toques.. and went out spraying this bees stuff in a pattern around us like a Roman Phalanx.
and if at night u had aproched the nest with a pair of womens nylons on a rounded coat hanger slipped it over the nest then knocked it into the nylons twisting it closed and then dropped it in a bucket of soapy water you would have been stung far less...
Frog wrote:
and if at night u had aproched the nest with a pair of womens nylons on a rounded coat hanger slipped it over the nest then knocked it into the nylons twisting it closed and then dropped it in a bucket of soapy water you would have been stung far less...
Really? That sounds like a great way to do it.
They dont come out cause of the night or because its colder?
The nylon idea is brilliant..
Only issue I could see is if you cant get at the nest.
Thanks!
I think Russ and his brother should have their own reality show/comedy routine.
Frog wrote:
and if at night u had aproched the nest with a pair of womens nylons on a rounded coat hanger slipped it over the nest then knocked it into the nylons twisting it closed and then dropped it in a bucket of soapy water you would have been stung far less...
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Do you often do this?
no not often ...but yes i have done it a couple of times... if you can not reach the nest strong soapy water will kill them... mind you are better to call in a professional for those large jobs... at night it is cooler so they are in the nest keeping it warm... sort of like when you and i sleep... i have been stung far to many times over the years by wasps... and twice by bees first bee sting nearly killed me.. it left me comatose in a ships bunk for a few days... if i had been stung closer to the heart than the ankle it may have killed me .... the ships doctor thought it was the flu... and the nurse was air lifted to a hospital due to her throat swelling shut... considering i was unconscious i was unable to tell them what happened to me... last thing i remember was requesting to be relieved from the helm...
I'm rambling here... so i am saying good night...
talk to a few others they will tell you the stockings and coat hanger trick is great for removing small to medium nests... i learned the hard way...