Armed with one of the most painful stings on the planet, tarantula hawks are a spider's worst nightmare. A fear of insects - entomophobia -is relatively common among people, but for some spiders, ...

reported to be the second most painful sting of any insect and most painful wasp sting in the world. Just one prick from the insect is enough to knock out a tarantula cold. "Imagine being hit with ...

Entomologist Justin Schmidt recorded his own experience of venomous stings, to rate and describe the pain caused by the venom of insects. Explore part of Schmidt’s pain index below. Schmidt’s pain ...

It was a surprise to me to learn that there is such a thing as the Schmidt sting pain index, which rates, using the honeybee as a reference point, the painfulness of a sting from one of seventy-eight ...

In 2018, a visitor to Falls Lake described the consequences of his encounter with a southern flannel moth as “the worst pain he ... to know about the furry insects. The name “puss caterpillar ...