and it is big!
not your normal run of the mill garden variety, this is
the Tarantula Hawk wasp with an excruciatingly painful sting that lasts
only three minutes, but feels like a lifetime, the pain, rated four (highest)
on the Schmidt sting pain index, is best described as 'fiercely
electric', bug experts and people who have been stung claim the pain is a lot
like getting electrocuted, and the best strategy to deal with it is? to
lie down and start screaming! according to a report in the Journal of the Kansas Entomology Society,
'Tarantula hawks produce large quantities of venom and their stings produce
immediate, intense, excruciating short term pain in envenomed humans', the report adds that
'the instantaneous pain of a tarantula hawk sting is the greatest recorded for
any stinging insect,' but 'the venom itself lacks meaningful vertebrate
toxicity', in other words, the wasp’s sting isn’t deadly, but it’s so painful
that it’ll make you want to die, as if there are not enough
creepy crawlies out there now this one!
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