Who better to come up with a scale than a connoisseur.
Everyone's got a fetish, I guess.
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ano_ba_to@sopuli.xyz 1 hour ago
Denjin@feddit.uk 13 hours ago
Schmidt’s index is full of brilliant stuff.
Red Fire Ant: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch.
Tropical Fire Ant: You should have learned, but the carpet is the same, and when you again reach for the light switch, the shock mocks you.
Southern Fire Ant: It happens on the third day, as you reach for the light switch, and you’re wondering when you will ever learn.
Giant Ant: A pulsing sting with some flavour. You stepped into a salt bath with an open wound.
Glorious Velvet Ant: Instantaneous, like the surprise of being stabbed. Is this what shrapnel feels like?
Warrior Wasp: Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?
Tarrantula Hawk Wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath.
Absolute lunatic.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Tarrantula Hawk Wasp: Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath.
The first time I ever saw one of these it was dragging a paralyzed tarantula back to its nest. That big fucker stopped what it was doing, turned around, and stared at me like it was sizing me up. It then turned back around and continued dragging the tarantula across the ground like, “Oh. It’s just a human. Not an actual threat. No biggie.”
No biggie is right. No way in hell I was getting anywhere close to a 3 inch long wasp.
shalafi@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
He was sizing you up! We’ve recently figured out that their pin-head brains can pattern match well enough to recognize human faces. He was getting a lock on you and filing your face away in his threat matrices. :)
Tested this myself! Wasps were building a nest directly above my front dog. Pig went out the dog door, I out the regular door, many times a day. Made a point of not staring or reacting if they flew close. Zero issue for either of us. Only time they got riled up when when I got my face close and stared for a few seconds.
CAVEAT: This does NOT apply to hornets, particularly the ones that boil out of the ground. Run for the fucking hills.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I’ve been stung by a velvet ant (although not a glorious one) and that’s honestly pretty spot on. I still remember that hot poker feeling, and they move so fast I didn’t even see the sting happen! That was my first lesson that fuzzy is not always friend 🥲
deranger@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Back when I was in the military I saw one on the sidewalk in Texas as I was stepping forward, too late to abort. It was fine, completely unfazed by my combat boots. It had to fit in between one of the treads, but still. Serious little critters.
halvar@lemy.lol 9 hours ago
How did he know what getting electrocuted to death feel like?
death_to_carrots@feddit.org 2 hours ago
hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone 12 hours ago
I didn’t even know sweat bees could sting. When I drove a cab I used to sit in a field with my feet sticking out the window and they’d inevitably come land on me and suck on my toes. I suppose it wouldn’t make much sense to sting your food source if you don’t have to, though.
toynbee@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I bet he’d be friends with Coyote Peterson.
Sunforged@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
Man I absolutely adored his channel when my kids were toddlers. His love and energy for animals was a straight homage to Steve Irwin.
And then he started doing unboxing videos… haven’t thought of him since.
toynbee@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Honestly, I only ever saw a few of his videos and they were all about getting stung. I never saw particular love and care for animals, I guess excluding stinging insects, but I could see how that would match his energy.
Unboxing doesn’t seem like it really matches his vibe, I agree.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Sweat bee’s never going to recover after getting called fruity like that
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 12 hours ago
I recommend Stand-up Maths video on this where he tries to recreate the scale with a bigger sample size. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-lWg5HNaM
Tudsamfa@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
Inspired by the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, Michael L. Smith did us all a favour and answered the obvious follow up question on which body parts hurt the most when stung. He had honey bee guards sting him in 25 locations, multiple times to account for variability, over 38 days.
Results:
He and Schmidt were awarded with a shared Ig Noble Price for their efforts.
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 minutes ago
The shaft was only a 7.3?!?
Well we know what they’re into…