For some inexplicable reason I am browsing stinging insects on Wikipedia, and have come across quite a few laughs.

Firstly, this 'Schmidt Sting Pain Index' is hilarious, read the descriptions!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index

Also, check out this fucker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraponera

The Bullet Ant!!! And there is a Brazilian tribe who sting their youths with bullet ants 20 times before they can enter manhood! I'd say you couldn't make it up, but that probably is the sort of wacky initiation rite I would make up in a story, thinking it was too outlandish to be real.

haha great stuff....
* 1.0 Sweat bee: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.
* 1.2 Fire ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
* 1.8 Bullhorn acacia ant: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
* 2.0 Bald-faced hornet: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.
* 2.0 Yellowjacket: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
* 2.x Honey bee and European hornet: Like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin.
* 3.0 Red harvester ant: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.
* 3.0 Paper wasp: Caustic & burning. Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.
* 4.0 Tarantula hawk: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.
* 4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail in your heel.

Bugs are cool





Fuck this, I'm not even using a full stop


Yeah

Gorebastard is on one of his 'attempting to be funny' trips!

This thread has been received with about as much enthusiasm as one of my own threads.

Alls I know is that I fucking hate wasps. Thankfully the weather has been consistently shite so they've not been too annoying. It's not as if I've even been stung recently but I think it's a bit out-of-order to have to make yourself look a tit in public by frantically swatting at the wasps trying to steal your Pepsi.

James wrote:Gorebastard is on one of his 'attempting to be funny' trips!

I'm the funniest person in England.

Weeeell...

From what i've heard and seen, these bad boys are supposed to be worse than the Bullet Ant!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_hornet

FUCK.

Well it looks like we'll never know, as that page fails to give a 'Schmidt Sting Pain Index' rating, and is thus invalid!

oh noooo.....

i am have fail and will burns by THE stingers... !

Some wasp bastard stung me in Hamburg the other day, something was in my ear, I pulled it out, it was a wasp and it hurrrrrrrtttttttttttt.

Still, I didn't go apeshit mental and start crying whenever a wasp came near me like Lev..

In Germany once we were eating at a cafe and literally about 10 wasps started harassing our table - they had clearly released some sort of food pheromone to attract their nest buddies. My dad was attempting to stay calm and tuck into his strudel, but he eventually had to concede that there were a silly amound of wasps in the vicinity, so we abandoned ship.

It's strange that I haven't been stung by a wasp or a bee in about 15 years, but I still loathe them being nearby.

I shit myself when a wasp comes near me. They're like chavs; whether or not you leave them alone you're bound to get attacked.

Did anyone who went to Wacken notice the swarms of wasps in the cake stalls next to the supermarkets? Obviously health & safety standards don't apply to German festivals

You're not wrong, in fact no German cafes seem to care too much about Wasps and such - at this cake cafe they were just crawling over the cakes and the staff didn't care!

I got stung on holiday on my arm last week. I had a shirt on, and my arm felt itchy, so i smacked my arm, and out fell a wasp and i was hurting quite a lot.