Starr sting pain scale
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Starr sting pain scale or "A Pain Scale for Bee, Wasp, and Ant Stings" was created by the entomologist Christopher Starr as a scale to compare the overall pain of Hymenopteran stings on a four-point scale [1].
Contents |
[edit] Scale
| Rating | Insects |
|---|---|
| 1.0 | Southern fire ant |
| 2.0 | Honey bee, Africanized bee, Bumble bee, Yellowjacket |
| 3.0 | Velvet ant, Paper wasp |
| 4.0 | Pepsis wasp, Bullet ant |
[edit] References
- Starr, Christopher K. "A Pain Scale for Bee, Wasp, and Ant Stings"
- 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
- Tom Turpin On Six Legs "Insects Bite and Sting for Good Reasons"
- David B. Williams DesertUSA "Tarantula Hawks"
[edit] Notes
- ↑ E. Hoyt, T. Schultz (2002). Insect Lives, Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World.
[edit] See also
- Schmidt Sting Pain Index by Justin O. Schmidt
- Scoville scale to measure the hotness of a chilli pepper
- Dol scale to measure pain
- Irukandji syndrome a jellyfish sting induced condition
- pain scale
