Entomologist Justin Schmidt was willingly stung with 85 insects to create the Schmidt Pain Scale, used to rate the pain of insect stings. The scale ranks from one to four, with one being the least ...

The result of his work is an alarmingly comprehensive pain index, ranking 83 insect stings on a spectrum of 1 to 4. For example, the red fire ant, native to South America is a 1: "Sharp, sudden ...

Entomologist Justin Schmidt developed a pain scale for insect venom based on his experiences of being stung hundreds of times. Entomologist Justin Schmidt redefined what it meant to conduct ...

The scale is based on a thousand or so personal stings from over 80 insect groups, plus ratings by various colleagues. Insects sting to improve their lives and increase their opportunities.

Schmidt ranks each insect sting on a scale of one to four, with four being the most painful. He also describes each sting with evocative, even poetic, language. The Sweat Bee, for example, which ranks ...

Schmidt developed a scale from 0 to 4, in which 0 was defined as the sensation of being stung by an insect that cannot penetrate human skin to 2, a familiar intermediate pain (honey bee), to 4, an ...

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 ...

“A Simple Pain Scale for Field Comparison of Hymenopteran Stings.” Journal of Entomological Science, Vol. 20, No. 2 1985. “Interview with Dr. Justin O. Schmidt.” ...

An insect sting might hurt, but if it does no damage, the pain doesn't mean much. "That's where the toxicity component comes in," says Schmidt. Other molecules can mulch cellular machinery ...

Schmidt’s pain scale is obviously subjective. An estimated 9,000 species of ants, 20,000 species of bees, and 800 species of stinging wasps exist worldwide, and he hasn’t sampled every one…yet.

The question of whether or not insects feel pain is a matter of heated debate among scientists. In a study published on Tuesday, a team of researchers argue that these animals have a certain ...