Schmidt Sting Pain Index or The Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index was created by Justin O. Schmidt, an entomologist. Having been stung by almost every type of bee, wasp, and ant, Schmidt created (on his own time) an index to compare the overall pain of Hymenopteran stings on a four-point scale. Entomology is the scientific study of insects. ... Families Andrenidae Apidae Colletidae Halictidae Megachilidae Melittidae Stenotritidae Bee collecting pollen Bees (a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila) are flying insects, closely related to wasps and ants. ... Suborder Symphyta Apocrita See text for families. ... Subfamilies Aenictinae Aenictogitoninae Aneuretinae Apomyrminae Cerapachyinae Dolichoderinae Dorylinae Ecitoninae Formicinae Leptanillinae Leptanilloidinae Myrmeciinae Myrmicinae Nothomyrmeciinae Ponerinae Pseudomyrmecinae Diagram of a worker ant (Pachycondyla verenae). ... Look up Pain in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Suborders Apocrita Symphyta Many families, see article Hymenoptera is one of the larger orders of Insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. ...

• 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 WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.
• 2.x Honey bee, Africanized bee and European hornet.
• 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 Pepsis wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath (if you get stung by one you might as well lie down and scream).
• 4.0+ Bullet ant: Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch nail in your heel.

Sweat bee is the common name for bees that are attracted to pollen and the salt in human perspiration. ... Species many, see text Fire ants are stinging ants of the genus Solenopsis, of which there are over 280 species and subspecies worldwide. ... Shag is typically used to make a deep-pile carpets. ... The bull-horn acacia, Acacia cornigera (family Fabaceae), is a type of acacia with a very specific feature: It can only live a long time when in symbiosis with ants. ... Look up Cheek in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Cheeks are the fleshy area of the face below the eyes and between the nose and the left or right ear, the skin being suspended by the chin and the yaws. ... Binomial name Dolichovespula maculata Linnaeus The Bald-faced hornet or White-faced hornet Dolichovespula maculata is not a true hornet at all. ... A revolving door is a type of door that, as its name suggests, revolves in its frame. ... For the comic book characters, see Yellowjacket (comics). ... W.C. Fields in a scene from The Bank Dick W. C. Fields W. C. Fields (April 9, 1879 – December 25, 1946) was an American comedian and actor. ... Four cigars of different brands (from top: H. Upmann, Montecristo, Macanudo, Romeo y Julieta) An airtight cigar storage tube and a guillotine-style cutter A cigar is a tightly rolled bundle of dried and fermented tobacco, one end of which is ignited so that its smoke may be drawn into... A human tongue The tongue is the large bundle of skeletal muscles on the floor of the mouth that manipulates food for chewing and swallowing, (deglutition). ... The honeybee is a colonial insect that is often maintained, fed, and transported by farmers. ... Africanized honey bees (AHB), also known as “killer” bees, are hybrids of the African honeybee, Apis mellifera adansonii (or by other reports ), with various European honeybees such as the Italian bee Apis mellifera ligustica. ... Binomial name Vespa crabro L., 1761 For main article see hornet. ... The red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus) is a large (5mm - 7mm) ant common in the southwest United States. ... Onychocryptosis, commonly known as ingrown nails (unguis incarnatus), is a common form of nail disease. ... A paper wasp (Ropalidia sp. ... Illustration of a Beaker A beaker is a type of laboratory glassware which consists of a cylindrical cup with a notch on the top to allow for the pouring of liquids. ... The chemical compound hydrochloric acid is the aqueous (water-based) solution of hydrogen chloride (HCl). ... A paper cut occurs when a piece of paper or similar material slices the skin. ... Genera Pepsis Hemipepsis The tarantula hawk is the common name for species in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis of the family Pompilidae, in the insect Order Hymenoptera. ... Categories: Stub | Hairdressing ... Bubble baths can be obtained by adding a product containing sodium dodecyl sulfate and is certified lather to water. ... Binomial name Paraponera clavata F.Smith, 1858 Paraponera (F. Smith, 1858) is a genus of paraponerine ants famous for its sole species, the so-called bullet ant , named on account of its most powerful and potent sting, the sensation of which has often been likened with that of being shot... Fire-walking is the act of walking barefoot over a bed of hot coals. ... Charcoal is the blackish residue consisting of impure carbon obtained by removing water and other volatile constituents from animal and vegetation substances. ... A pile of nails Nails A twisted nail This article is about nails as used in engineering. ... The heel is the prominence at the posterior end of the foot. ...

References

• Conniff, Richard. "The King of Sting", in Outside, v. 21 n. 4 (April 1996), pp. 82-84, 147.
• Conniff, Richard. "Stung: How tiny little insects get us to do exactly as they wish", Discover, June 2003.
• Evans, David L. Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators, Table 14.1, 1990. ISBN 0-88706-896-0

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See also

• Scoville scale to measure the hotness of a chilli pepper
• Dol scale to measure pain
• Irukandji syndrome
• Starr sting pain scale "A Pain Scale for Bee, Wasp and Ant Stings" by Christopher Starr