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Black Widow
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One of the world’s most notorious spiders, the black widow lives up to its reputation and is capable of delivering a bite that ranks among the most painful in nature. Interestingly, bites from small black widows are benign because the smaller spiders aren’t capable of delivering much venom. But if you’re unlucky enough to get bitten by a larger one, get ready for a rough ride. Envenomation from a black widow can cause a condition called latrodectism, which involves constant, strong, painful muscle contractions that seem never-ending.
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Sweat Bee
Source: The Schmidt sting pain index, Image: Wikipedia
The Halictidae, better known as sweat bees, are a very large and nearly cosmopolitan family of the order Hymenoptera consisting of small to midsize bees that are usually dark-colored and often metallic in appearance. Their sting is considered one of the most painful among insects and according to those who have suffered one, it feels like it burns and hurts like hell at the same time.
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Bullhorn Acacia Ant
Source: The Schmidt sting pain index, Image: Wikipedia
The bullhorn acacia ant is a species of ant of the genus Pseudomyrmex. These arboreal, wasp-like ants have an orange-brown body around three millimeters in length and very large eyes. The acacia ant is best known and named for living in symbiosis with the bullhorn acacia (Acacia cornigera) throughout Central America. If you have the bad luck to be bitten by it, you will feel a rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain like someone has fired a staple into your cheek.
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Bald-faced Hornet
Source: The Schmidt sting pain index, Image: Wikipedia
The bald-faced hornet is a eusocial wasp of the cosmopolitan Vespidae family. Its colloquial names include the bald-faced hornet, bald hornet, white-faced hornet, white-tailed hornet, black jacket, and bull wasp. Its sting is considered to be super rich, hearty, slightly crunchy, and if you get bitten, the bite has been described as similar to getting your hand smashed in a revolving door.
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Common Honeybee
Source: The Schmidt sting pain index, Image: Wikipedia
Don’t dismiss the sting of the common honeybee. The toxic cocktail of melittin and other amines acts on the heart and restricts the blood vessels. The pain is hot and messy and familiar to almost everyone, which is why Schmidt placed the honeybee sting in the center of the pain index.
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