Does anything hurt worse? Explore the pain scale devised by entomologist Justin Schmidt and discover the most painful insect stings in the world. Skip to content. Search ... to rate and describe the ...

Justin O. Schmidt, an intrepid entomologist who measured the agony of insect stings by allowing himself to be stung hundreds of times in creating a renowned and vividly descriptive pain scale that ...

We have all of these pain scales where we try to rate from 1 to 10 to describe what we're feeling. And so a lot of the people studying insect pain are just doing studies to not prove that ...

One of the most influential papers on the subject, “Do Insects Feel Pain?,” was published, in 1984, by C. H. Eisemann, an Australian entomologist at the University of Queensland, and several ...

Are insect larvae less capable of feeling pain than adults? We really don’t know. This is the problem with the insect sentience question: It’s one big fractal unknown that breaks down into a ...

We have all of these pain scales where we try to rate from 1 to 10 to describe what we're feeling. ... "Do Insects Feel Pain," in The New Yorker. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) Transcript provided by NPR ...

Ever wondered if insects feel pain? We interact with them every day, and they're nearly 40% of all living species on Earth. Now new research explores the possibility that insects feel the ...