some local science
I give you the Schmidt sting pain index for hymenoptera
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_sting_pain_index
my father did some photography work at the Carl Hayden Bee lab when he was an undergrad. connections, mannnnn
I have said before of the local regular stingers around here, harvester ants are the worst (and I live with scorpions). hadn't been stung by one in a few years, but my luck ran out this morning. so nerd that I am I went a-googling. yep they are a 3 out of 4. and it runs up the lymph system. stung on the inside of my lower leg just abouve the ankle and I am feeling it now in my groin and left abdominal area. whew, makes a scorpion sting feel kind of like a cake walk (NOT REALLY)
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One of the wee, chitinous monsters climbed up my pants leg two years ago and nailed me high on my inner thigh.
I swore, and assassinated the brute.
It took weeks and several tubes of cortisone to get over it. It also took two cans of ant pellets to eradicate the colony.
I danced me a savage dance of vengeance around their mass grave when it was all over.
Lo, I am Shiva, destroyer of worlds.
