The 8 Most Painful Insect Stings on Earth

[@beatsbydave32]

Does anyone else think that Schmidt's descriptions of the pains are just great?

[@TheOatTea]

Exquisite

[@seleykosanikatwr9272]

Very poetic indeed

[@Life_RPG]

He should've been a writer... But then who would let insects abuse them for science?

[@nureinbratwurst2109]

I love how he used the word Brilliant. He gets it

[@lovelyafternoon]

David Shim “It’s like somebody is using a power drill to excavate your ingrown toenail”

[@-Archant]

"Warrior wasp" "Tarantula Hawk" "Bullet Ant" Coyote Peterson: "Executioner Wasp."

[@bridgewornroblox2196]

Yep

[@AdrianaFerreira-xz4pc]

Right

[@subducks5521]

Japanese Giant hornet

[@fredm.2076]

@@subducks5521 no. Executioner wasp. That heresy will get you killed you can't talk about the king that way. Be careful friend. The King is everywhere.

[@rokusho6667]

Jackson Bailey giant hornet is second. Executioner wasps pain lasts for days and causes necrosis. Which is like having holes of dead tissue throughout the entire stun limb. Giant honrets do not cause any of that but are still painful as hell. Probably tied with or worse then the bullet ant.

[@YatiAcharya]

"Death doesn't let you learn" Sounds like something a really twisted villain would say.

[@thomasneal9291]

"If you kill him, he won't learn nuthin'" kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5-Ymp-NrJqootE

[@katrinakollmann5265]

Or someone trying to talk someone out of taking their life. Wow.

[@Aeturnalis]

Change it to "death doesn't let you reproduce," and you have the official motto of evolution.

[@aspiechan420]

Sounds like something Jigsaw would say!

[@lovecraftscat5044]

Ghirahim.

[@shiningarmor2838]

Why does Schmidt describe pain the same way a connoisseur describes food or wine?

[@seanhagan1435]

Shining Armor because he’s motivated by genuine curiosity

[@fridgidfroilet3142]

He is a pain connoisseur

[@benselectionforcasting4172]

Because he gave a Schmidt

[@thomasneal9291]

for the entertainment value.

[@depurasangre86]

a nice peppery sligthly aged burning sensation. with a hint of a constant drilling into your nerves after taste. goes well with white wine and an epipen. i do prefer the southern african over the european because of the more pronounced decaying of the skin around the sting area. 4.5 out of 5. would definitely take another sting.

[@pastelshadows6437]

"Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?" "I was willingly stung hundreds, if not thousands of times for science." "Oh. Right this way, sir."

[@AtrumNuntius]

Did these scientists also double as writers for young adult novels? Cause I don't think I've ever heard such flowery descriptions for being stung.

[@wschippr1]

Atrum Nuntius I was stung by a bullet ant and the best I can describe it is like others have, such as being shot or someone putting a cigar out on ones skin.

[@jclau77]

10 worst insect stings Coyote Peterson: *Hold my beer*

[@Karin_Allen]

12-year-old Mawe Indians in the Amazonian rainforest to Coyote Peterson: Hold my milk while I put on these *two giant gloves full of thousands of bullet ants* and dance around in them without so much as a whimper: kzbin.info/www/bejne/kHisi2Cwituiqq8

[@arthas640]

Steve Erwin: *hold me croc, I'm gonna check on that beautiful Sheila!*

[@Semityis22]

Its 8 stings

[@rickh3714]

Hold my Gila monster. Here's my anecdotal pain index Honey bee 2 German wasp 2.5 Bumble bee to ankle 3 ( like a mini fret saw cutting in) Tasmanian paper wasp to stomach 4 Instant shock. Like being shot with a small Calibre gun ( I imagine). Waves of pain that subside after a few minutes. 10- 20? Mins Asian paper wasp to eyelid 4 ( possibly more due to location) instant smarting pain. Lid blows up badly for perhaps an hr or more. Panic. (Did it get my eyeball, will I go blind etc) Stings badly for perhaps 2 hrs slowly subsiding. Large beetle bite 1.5 . Hurts and blood but less painful than bee sting Giant centipede. 5 Instant electrifying shock, like molten lava injected into arm. Throbbing waves of excruciating pain. Scream inducing. Subsides to not much 15-20 mins later. I would refuse to handle one in future without thick leather gloves. Cricket ball to head 4 (K.O'd) Throbbing headache afterwards 4.5 Lasts several days. Similar ball to groin 4 subsiding to 3.5 a few minutes later

[@guymathias3697]

Coyote, Dont!

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

Stefan is a great addition to your team. He speaks clearly and pronounces everything in an articulate manner while exuding exuberance about the topic. Well done

[@fyrenyde8711]

Bees: Friends Wasps: Occasionally annoying Hornets: literally tiny flying hitlers

[@4lexisdumb]

Fyrenyde lmao those hornets

[@violet-tha-witch4621]

Fyrenyde that’s not a hornet hornets are just little shits with wings

[@faliciatruran729]

Hornets are rude :c lol

[@RadekCrazy1]

WTF Hornest are much more tame than wasps and much less annoying (yeah I know they are also a wasp species)

[@RG_Jr]

Some bees are friendly with no stings

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

This is my list (some of which are based off of Coyote Peterson's ideals) 10. Honey Bee 9. Yellow Jacket 8. Fire Ant 7. Harvester Ant 6. Red Headed Paper Wasp 5. Velvet Ant (Cow Killer) 4. Warrior Wasp 3. Asian Giant Hornet and Tarantula Hawk 2. Bullet Ant 1. *E X E C U T I O N E R W A S P*

[@qwedge]

0. G I A N T D E S E R T C E N T I P E D E

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

@@qwedge That's a bite, not a sting.

[@thewhite9044]

Coyote said that the sting of the japanese giant hornet was almost on par with the giant dessert centepede don't know if he mean it. And also you forgot killer bees coyote said it was more deadlier than honey bees but he wasn't stung by it. Did coyote got stung by red headed paper wasp?

[@fengliu975]

He mentioned that after executioner wasp there would be no more stinging. So we will never find out from him after that I guess

[@DaDaDaDa-im6on]

He actually said tarantula hawk is more painful than bullet ant for him. But the pain of taranrula hawk doesent last much so thats why bullet and is on the top (if we dont include ex wasp)

[@JukesMcGee]

Soon after his research, schmidt stepped on a lego, and gave it a rating of 5 on the schmidt index.

[@tiberiusstaicu7741]

and that lego piece was shaped like an ant head .

[@dailyscoopofart5384]

Whoa h

[@Christopher-N]

Followed by a Micro Machine, for a Schmidt Index of 7.

[@florianxmerten]

i think only coyote peterson could survive level 5 pain

[@jamesforest5245]

Holy Schmidt

[@YouNoub1]

Is this why we have two different metric systems? meters/feet Kilograms/pounds Coyote Peterson/Justin Schmidt

[@seanbush5313]

Justin Schmidt "brilliant pain" Coyote Peterson "AHHHHHHGAAAAWWWWWWW I CANT MOVE MY ARM!!!!"

[@aa-xi8bc]

Sorry but I have to say; we have one metric system and the USA (and them ONLY) have the imperial system (inches, feet, miles...).

[@crimsonkaiser3162]

Queen Moriarty False, Liberia, and Myanmar use the imperial system too.

[@thanrose]

Coyote based his selections on Schmidt's pain scale. There is at least one other entomological list of worst stings though.

[@oliverhees4076]

Coyote screams for about 20 seconds, then mostly shakes it off as if he had a mild injury

[@jacobmortimore]

I'm so grateful that I live in the UK pretty much nothing here can cause a painful sting

[@alexanderschmidt8305]

I love how everybody from UK freaks out when they see those huge flying grasshoppers in greece

[@DecibelthePanda]

Ronathon 69 horsefly bro, horsefly

[@balharher7365]

Except a sting to the heart

[@HAZARDOUS88]

Horse Radish? lol

[@Meow_YT]

Just the painful sting of an agonising life

[@Vistakrov7392]

Bullet ant: pain last for 24 hours Exacutioner wasp: pain last for a week

[@ronaldshank7589]

Dude....a week?!? If that ever happens to me, I hope that somebody is nearby with a lead pipe, knocks me out, and puts me in a freakin' COMA for that week, 'cause I don't wanna suffer for a full week, just because of an Executioner Wasp's Sting! If a whole bunch of them Sting me, somebody kill me, and let me go onto the Heaven!!!

[@thomasbellavance1885]

First of all, did you forget that the executioner wasp started forming a hole in Coyote Peterson's arm?

[@dilon6168]

Ronald Shank actually if multiple executioners sting you before someone even had the opportunity of killing yourself or something, you will be neutralized by the pain, and little later you’ll probably dead

[@faliciatruran729]

Hornets: 4 weeks

[@AceofDlamonds]

warrior wasps, bullet ant, tarantula hawk the big 3 painbringers of all time! of course the executioner wasp has to be an honorable mention!

[@infinitecanadian]

And strangely enough, no death has ever been recorded by a bullet ant sting, not even by the people who weave them into gloves and get stung hundreds of times.

[@dabiskitt]

You should make a list of the most painful living creature’s adaptations (spikes, poison, etc). Maybe one per kingdom (one plant, one animal, etc)?

[@ZekeMackay]

Or just make a new channel, "SciShow Pain"

[@JumbieJuJuBee]

Looks at cyote Peterson. He's been stung by every since one of these things! It's fascinating and cringing

[@ZekeMackay]

Katelynn Monroe nice English :)

[@TheRedKnight101]

The classical kingdom system isn't a great method to go by anymore especially when talking about painful adaptations.

[@CyberiusT]

Pretty hard to decide between cone shell, platypus spur, irukandji jellyfish for 'animal'. All three of those are reported to be somewhat more painful than immersing the limb in boiling water.

[@torvamessorem6686]

"Pain is your body letting you know there's a problem." Yeah okay fine, but enough's enough.

[@scottmantooth8785]

it's like...do you really want to do that again?

[@im1who84u]

Death is natures way of telling you to slow down.

[@Brainsucker92]

Dude, are you Günther Steiner?

[@bradsuarez2683]

"Pain is weakness leaving the body"

[@planescaped]

@@im1who84u Thanks for the heads up... oh wait

[@CatchBurning]

I jumped into a Firethorn bush once. When you’re in contact it feels like a regular thorn bush, but then the burning pain starts. I got scratched all over my legs and arms, and therefore got a fever like reaction because of the overdose. The pain lasted for a week, my legs and arms burned and throbbed, we kept finding thorns stuck in my skin even days after. The entire time I was home sick my thoughts where ether ‘all a I wanted was to get that ball!’ And ‘why was this thing on a school playground in the first place?!’ 😖

[@mgm.al3mry]

That's sad, man. Hugs to you 🌹

[@DreckbobBratpfanne]

Had that with stinging nettles... was already enough, basically like a hundred ants getting you at once.

[@Zarmdthecoolest]

Yeah, why was it on a playground? Whose idea was that?

[@mastod0n1]

@@Zarmdthecoolest nature

[@scottdahneke1031]

Oof

[@jojoh265]

They need to redo this and add executioner wasp Anyone here fan of brave wilderness

[@AdmiralWillisLee1942]

True

[@conwarrior2900]

True

[@FlowerPatchH]

Yes!

[@fujisakicdanganronpa5395]

Hell yeah!

[@redacted6169]

True

[@krishnameet436]

Lego Brick is a number 5 on the Schmidt index Description: Absolutely excruciating, indescribable, everlasting,eternal pain

[@jeythegrey]

A little addition in case anybody even reads this or cares: Schmidt himself thinks, that the most dangerous of them all is the honeybee, not only due to many showing allergic symptoms, but also because they are found regularly where a lot of people live (nests nearby houses), are common almost all around the world and are known to release pheromones upon stinging to inform other bees that there is a predator nearby. This causes you to be most likely stung by multiple if you happen to be nearby a nest and honeybees are willing to relentlessly hunting you down for kilometers. Watch Bravewilderness interview with Schmidt for more info

[@spindash64]

On the other hand, since they make honey, and are well known as pollinators, I feel that people are also somewhat better informed to just leave them bee ...erhem...

[@vaiyt]

Are you sure you aren't mistaking common honey bees for africanized bees?

[@ryanaguas6463]

You didnt mention Coyote Peterson, the guy that has gotten stung by all of these

[@prognerite9447]

Ryan Aguas not by the red headed paper wasp

[@lilbroomstick420]

Melamine he will do it eventually

[@Ayaforshort]

Yeah, but where do you think CP got the pain scale from? Also Schmidt is the one actually studying the science behind it. CO just did it to get attention on KZbin.

[@afz1194]

He is probably immune......I bet he will swing in lava next time. :D

[@DanielRenardAnimation]

*Ayenate' Lawson* I'm glad you say that. Although I like Coyote, it's important to point out he isn't exactly a pioneer on the topic. Pretty tired of _any_ audience who sees a person do something "first" and _assumes_ that 'this' was where it originated from. I'm glad SciShow sheds some light on it too.

[@greensteve9307]

People worry about Australia, and yet the top 5 were all found in the Americas.

[@ClasherofWorlds]

Steve Cheetah well it's the spiders that are dangerous in Australia as well as snakes but anyways, spiders are arachnids and technically arachnids are not insects otherwise the red back spider funnel web spider would be in the top 5 probably

[@SmellyKatPants]

There are also horribly painful and dangerous insects in Australia, but perhaps Schmidt didn't test them. I mean, there are a lot of insects in the world. I can't seem to find any evidence that Schmidt tested the jack jumper (aka hopper ant) but I've been told it is one of the most painful stings of any insect and they cause a lot of deaths because many people are allergic to them.

[@jagfan101]

This is pain index, not a lethality level index...

[@mabinogidrws]

I got bitten by a bull ant once. Stung like buggery! That's enough insect interaction for me.

[@mabinogidrws]

blog.csiro.au/things-that-sting-how-do-aussie-insects-measure-up-on-the-pain-scale/

[@saltywater5097]

they feed their babies tarantulas, let that sink in for a minute.... that's a whole lot of nope.

[@saltywater5097]

@Death Omen arachnid

[@F1ll1nTh3Blanks]

@@saltywater5097 Meh, some wasps lay their eggs inside live victims and even zombifiy them. 🤷

[@noelmey2118]

@@F1ll1nTh3Blanks *OOF*

[@thecarwithinternetaccess7952]

Some birds eat other birds. Crocodiles eat baby Alligators and vice versa

[@mattblake9936]

Radarex bird on bird prey is very very common, and for the American Alligator, adult males will kill and consume younger male alligators to prevent future competition😳

[@ardaakkaya1784]

When he said "fire ant raft" my leg physically hurt.

[@EvelynnEleonore]

Wait, you're telling me instead of buying expensive antidepressants i, as a German living in Germany, could just go swallow wasps for my serotonin? Neat! Will get back to you with results

[@fbidumbbee]

_it's been a year, lads i think he's dead_

[@lucienrichardson5691]

@@fbidumbbee F

[@shawnsoto8695]

F

[@mossymusa365]

F

[@Subject229]

F

[@grass4655]

Is anyone going to acknowledge his “stay curious” shirt?

[@devinchen4190]

mystery science

[@prestonang8216]

. Lol

[@nou8461]

Nope

[@mercster]

What's curious is this guy's haircut.

[@Nouvellecosse]

I've love how it wasn't until he got to something that felt like he was being tortured by being chained to the flow of an active volcano before he even questioned the idea of doing this for the first time.

[@SkyDyedToki]

Looks outside Sees a quite a lot of wasps *haha,im in danger*

[@ronaldshank7589]

Check out this young dude that goes by the moniker Just Joshing here on KZbin. That kid... sometimes, I think he, at least subconsciously, has a death wish! He captured some Wasps, put them in a special room (A large container), and tried to see if he could make pets out of them, even getting in this special room with them! He soon found out that the Wasps weren't having any of it! One of them (at least!), landed on him, and stung him! Wasps aren't designed like us. They don't have the same Genetic coding that we do. I believe that this young man found that out the hard way! They made sure he got that point through his thick 💀!!!!!

[@thomasisrael1636]

Schmidtt: "I've come up with a scale for pain." Count Rugen: "...Go on..."

[@AakashKalaria]

I prefer Baymax scale of 1 to 10.

[@AakashKalaria]

@Hduf Lolly, Awww thank you!

[@HoHSiS]

yeah

[@moltenhydrogen2218]

on a scale of 1 to 10 how do you rate your pain?

[@wertyuser798]

@@moltenhydrogen2218 "Really? Well, you just rate it and thats it. Just like the way im rating your comment" 2 penguin/10

[@moltenhydrogen2218]

wertyuser is this some sort of tier 3 joke that i dont understand?

[@megatonfunkids9801]

I’ve never been stung by a bee, but a have stepped on a wasp before. That wasn’t a very good day for me or my friend who got slapped in the face with a burning marshmallow that same day.

[@wiggliestone8456]

Megaton Fun Kids a burning marshmallow? 😂. I’ve only been stung by a wasp, which got stuck inside my jeans and stung my multiple times :(

[@alisababic8269]

I've stepped on a bee before but I can't even imagine a wasp oof

[@makenziguidry6065]

What a wild day

[@hailervin]

I think wasp stings hurt more than a bee sting anyways. Red paper wasps down South hurt like hell at least a 2 to a 3 on the scale.

[@davey6259]

@@hailervin last week, a wasp got stuck between my lips and it stung me multiple times. My lips literally blew up.

[@OoooOooOooOOooO-ol8kc]

Executioner wasp: I'm about to end the warrior wasp's whole career

[@jasonite_gaming]

How are you?

[@sonicsucks20]

Mha doesnt exist.

[@Marshmallow_Trees]

I vaguely remember seeing an episode from one of those “My Strange Addiction”-esque shows that featured a woman addicted to stinging herself with bees. I think it started as an effort to alleviate arthritic pain and it then spiraled into an addiction as she found she could not function without the sting which gave her an overall sense of peace and relief. It’s clearly an inhumane and, in this day and age, and for a woman of her means, not the most effectively reasonable way to alleviate pain. But she claimed she became addicted. Wonder if the amount of serotonin in a bee sting could temporarily lift one’s mood, as it did this woman. Weird.

[@joshhayl7459]

🔵 Having had a horse-riding injury to my shoulder at about 5yrs-old, my shoulder had given me problems most of my life, then, back in 1987 I heard about 'Bee-Sting Therapy', as it was just starting to be recognized by Western medicine and was becoming known for having a substantial impact on arthritis pain. After having seen a program about it on the Discovery Channel I decided to try it myself. One of my neighbors was a beekeeper and their bees used to feed all day long around the edges of the pool that my geese bathed in, and they were EXTREMELY Mellow bees! I would walk right over and sit down on the ground less than an arm's length away from the goose-pool with a pair of tweezers and pluck a bee off of the edge olwith them, grabbing it by the waist I would bring it up-to my shoulder and sting myself with it, using a dozen bees per-session one-right-after-the-other! Initially I had been concerned about the pheromones I had heard get released when a bee stings that brings other bees to the fight, but I never experienced this! I would just sit there and sting my shoulder with the bee and then throw the bee away and grab another one,... I was never attacked! After three weeks of doing this once-a-week I started to feel significant relief, so I stepped it up to 12-stings-TWICE-a-week!... After 8-weeks I stopped in order to assess how much help it had been,..... Jump Ahead to 2003, my shoulder had been pain-free up until then for THE-PAST-16-YEARS!!!!...... however, my pain was beginning to come back and, Unfortunately, my beekeeping-neighbor had moved away and I no longer had a source of bees! Well,...after a considerable number of years now living with the pain, a few months back I went to a local apiary and asked if I could pay them to Let me use their bees for my purpose on their premises, they said it would be okay for me to use their 'Employee-Restroom', (which was just a toilet in a dirty little concrete block building that was also being used to store lawn mowers, weed wackers, gardening tools and the-like), so I wouldn't be disturbed by the public, as customers used a different bathroom. I asked them what they would charge me for a dozen bees and the fellow I was speaking to had to think about it for a moment, that he'd never had the price out a dozen bees before...then said: "5-bucks oughta cover it!" .......WOW!! I thought,... Good-DEAL!! After that the only problem left was to figure out how to manage getting the Bees under control and into the bathroom! I ended up using a 'Mason jar' with a rubber-membrane (made from a balloon) stretched tightly across its mouth that had a small slit under a fold in it, I could reach through the slit with the tweezers and grab a Bee by the waist and take it out of the jar without any of the OTHER-bees getting out. I'll be starting this treatment again sometime in the next several months, and look'n forward to 16-more years of a pain-free shoulder!

[@Macachee]

@@joshhayl7459 Uh, poor bees??! You know that rips their abdomens out right?

[@friendbright5375]

Self-harm is something people can get addicted to for various reasons, this sounds like it could be a very strange version of that maybe?

[@esamkotsalainen2898]

Lol ive been stung by half of these Do not recommend

[@scottmantooth8785]

not exactly on my bucket list

[@davidtacy2594]

You're pretty cool

[@edwardzawistowski4770]

Me to

[@raaston9761]

@@davidtacy2594 i have been stung by them all

[@andygreen3575]

Stay out of the rainforest.

[@Master_Therion]

Sure, fire ants... kill them with fire. But honey bees are important... let them bee.

[@Scou73r]

GET OUT!

[@marcopineda7501]

i can't beelieve what i read

[@RobLong1993]

I thought you were going to suggest killing them with honey?

[@BertGrink]

But smoke also gets in your eyes!

[@nebulan]

Fire the fire ants

[@nhoklew]

Ah, the honey bee. Everyone's favorite polinator. Bumble bee: *Am I a joke to you?*

[@claudiahiguera]

Your profile pic looks like a axolotle

[@nhoklew]

@@claudiahiguera ok *If axolotl gills were made of THUMBS*

[@claudiahiguera]

It would be beautiful...

[@bambufan3636]

Bullet ant venom is nothing compared to denim fly venom. It's injected by the fly the moment you zip up and your foreskin gets stuck. Excruciating! A 9 on the Schmidt scale.

[@-Devy-]

Mykel Duso It's a joke, you moron.

[@unknownstranger1127]

@@mykel723 srsly tho you need to stay away from the Internet...lol

[@groundpound3126]

@@mykel723 Whoooosh.

[@thanatosvorigan4986]

You have no idea how much it hurts to be shot do you? Think about a burning hot piece of brass getting lodged into your body with the impact from more than the speed of sound. That's how painful getting shot, which is how painful bullet ants hurt. You were probably joking but just in case, getting useless skin stuck in a zipper is nothing compared to being shot.

[@erwinbosma7021]

search executiner wasp coyote peterson it is way worse than a bullit ant and the pain stays for weeks

[@EagleEye-oe4xe]

Baby bunnies: ok, rabbits preyed on so much it isn't shocking SEA TURTLE HATCHLINGS: TURTLE PRESERVATION MODE TRIGGERED

[@jasminejohnston6393]

Fun fact: while worker bees can’t retract their stingers because they’re barbed, a Queen bee’s stinger is smooth with no barbs, meaning that the Queen is able to retract her stinger and sting multiple times!

[@snazz1363]

I’ve stepped on a couple harvester ants about 2 years ago, the description was very accurate

[@buddharmt]

Coyote peterson ranks the executioner wasp as king. Just sayin Also what about the giant Japanese hornet?

[@timstanford3220]

Coyote also got bit by giant desert centipede. He had to go to the hospital it hurt so bad.

[@pachicore]

@@timstanford3220 thats a bite though

[@pachicore]

Schmidt probably didnt get stung by those

[@thomasneal9291]

@@pachicore no, it's technically a sting. centipedes use modified legs as a stinger. they do not bite to inject venom.

[@rogerminnick6470]

Japanese giant hornets are known as murder hornets in 2021

[@crackers2695]

Coyote's hand: exists Coyote: I'm about to end the hands whole career

[@justinmiller1191]

The descriptions are priceless.

[@apumasterp]

Good content and well presented!

[@fkovacs1]

I sat against a tree that just happened to be a fire ant nest once. I still have nightmares about that after 40 years.

[@aeea8318]

Oow... 😰 #compassion

[@seafoxx777]

Thank you so much for knowing the difference between venom and poison.

[@Bassillixx]

Once I extracted my own rotten tooth with rusty pliers, that was a level 10+

[@Articulate99]

Always interesting, thanks.

[@Arkantolas]

schmidt's descriptions were hella poetic. he should become a writer.

[@makenziguidry6065]

Honey Bee: *stings me* Me: That was nothing. IM ALIVE! Honey Bee: *dies* Also Honey Bee: I'll be waiting for you in Hell

[@johnnyspoop3582]

“Then there’s the beloved honeybee.” “And probably the sting most people have felt for themselves, because they’re found basically everywhere” Well not anymore they’re not

[@jmodified]

Most people who think say they've been stung by a "bee" probably got it from a yellowjacket. Honey bees are so docile you can basically pet them while they are gathering pollen. Only if you are poking around near the hive are you likely to get stung. Yellowjackets are way more aggressive, plus their nests are in the ground where you're likely to step in them or run over them with a lawn mower. Paper wasps also like to build nests in outdoor electric receptacles and light fixtures, under trailer hitch couplers, in bushes, and other places where people are likely to be poking their fingers, though maybe most people wouldn't confuse them bees. I've been stung hundreds of times by yellowjackets and paper wasps, but only once (one incident but about fifty stings) when I got too close to a honey bee hive.

[@dennisnedry9862]

Everybody's thinking coyote is mad for doing the sting tests, but I'm sitting here wondering how crazy Schmidt is to do 80 different species

[@Toastmaster_5000]

Meanwhile people seem to forget that Schmidt did his testing long before Coyote

[@David-ud9ju]

Schmidt is a scientist who's being paid though to be fair.

[@dennisnedry9862]

David so coyote doesn't get any ad revenue from his videos with millions of views?

[@dennisnedry9862]

Peter Schmidt coyote also has a KZbin channel which has blown up

[@Redbird-dh7mu]

“Hey, how bad does this hurt?” Schmidt in a nutshell

[@amandacairos]

I really needed that part about tarantulas not liking to be eaten 🤣

[@Mojosfire]

SaddleBack Caterpillar gave me the absolute most painful sting I've ever received so far in my life! It's a sting I'll shall never forget! I was wearing shorts that day. Never ever want to get stung by one again. I'm from Florida, and we have a huge insect population. I didn't even know what it was at first, and it looked like just a piece of fuzz that fell off from on my outdoor garbage can I was wheeling back to the side of the house, but I found out after that's how they appear like tan color fuzz. The pain was so bad, and I had an imprint of it's whole under body on the inside of my thigh that took several days before it finally disappeared. It brought me to tears when I was stung, the pain traveled up, and through my whole body. I had to go to the hospital, that's when they identified what had stung me. It was so bad I couldn't walk for three days, because of the intense pain just putting any weight on my leg where it had stung me!

[@davidbuschhorn6539]

Velvet ants are no picnic either. There's a _reason_ why they're called "cow-killers." :-(

[@OneFoxTwoFox]

David Buschhorn yup. They should be one number higher on pain than warrior wasps. I was stung at the age of 7. To this day that memory is etched in. It only lasted about 45 minutes but it felt like someone stuck a red hot poker and left it there for the entirety of that time. I left my hand in a cooler of ice water amd each time i pulled it out, felt like i was stung again. Mother nature does an amazing job of making sure to make bad things very colorful. If it is pretty, if you arent knowledgeable, it is best to observe from a distance.

[@davidbuschhorn6539]

I found one at work and had no idea what it was! I followed it around and thought it was beautiful. Not knowing what it was, I didn't pick it up. Thank God.

[@Hellheart]

David Buschhorn That's the truth, right there, bro!! Got bitten/stung by one a few years ago while I was in Texas (I think). It was hell!! Second worst pain I've ever felt.

[@mcstar1994]

Ricky Ray what was the first??

[@Hellheart]

newton jacobs Getting stabbed

[@chishionotenshi]

I feel like 1 to 4 is a very short index that leaves no room for nuance, especially if you're going from honey bee to harvester ant as only a single step on a scale- and count yellow jackets as the same amount of pain as a honey bee.

[@StaySafeDontDie]

That's because, according to Schmidt in his interview with Coyote Peterson, he said that the next level up was 10x the previous level. So a harvester ant is 10x more painful than a honey bee sting.

[@jerden3285]

I feel like Schmidt wanted to keep it simple, because comparing pain is going to be subjective, and theoretically somebody else might want to replicate Schmidt's work. Somebody crazy, of course, but it would be nice if their ratings matched up

[@Slimeacation]

Brave Wilderness anyone?

[@Goldenheart_345]

You mean crazy ow man?

[@drowsymexico]

Matthew Hoffman here boi

[@danm8004]

Be brave, stay wild!

[@eyobwalid2332]

Brave wilderness EVERYONE!

[@captainrobots1]

Matthew Hoffman yep

[@fuyuhikokuzuryuu5611]

Insect that bites:*exists* Coyote peterson: *Ferb, I know what we are gonna do today*

[@fallingasleepaswespeak]

yellow jacket stings: give off serotonin millions of unmedicated depressed teens around the world: gimme

[@Sandstimes]

I heard that you can save a honey bee that stung you by holding still and letting it slowly and carefully pull its stinger out of u but I’ve never tried it so I don’t know how truthful that claim is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@batintheattic7293]

I'm loving how Schmidt is mixing it up when it comes to his descriptions of pain. 'Irreverent'!! I mean, what is 'irreverent' pain? Well, I suppose it's a pain that doesn't revere anything. It has no respect for the usually respected things. Perhaps, it's a pain that is dismantling our preconceptions about what we're supposed to find amusing. I have NO idea what that would feel like - but I do like it. I think Schmidt is anthropomorphising different sorts of pain. So, for instance (last time I remember hurting myself) kneeling down, on the kitchen floor, and there was a little bit of gravel - I would describe it as being like an overly interpersonal shelf stacker.

[@K1LL3R_4RC4D3]

I’ve literally never been stung by any of these *god I’m lucky...*

[@BasePuma4007]

The only one you're likely to encounter would be a normal yellow jacket wasp, and those don't hurt that bad tbh.

[@ricknoyb1613]

Not really, enduring insect stings is like being vaccinated. Go your whole life without a sting and it could be real trouble if you are stung later on and exhibited a life-threatening reaction. I believe there are unexplored benefits to getting stung or bitten by nature every so often. Unused immune systems need to be exercised just like muscles or brain cells. Without an exterior threat to chew on, I tend to believe we are setting ourselves up for a whole host of autoimmune diseases or immunity sensitivity because the immune system isn't being utilized.

[@ivanvoznenko7874]

@@ricknoyb1613 Facts

[@Metroid4ever]

Good, fire ants are nasty fuckers.

[@accountnotinuse1535]

Same

[@rhin3stonecowgirl]

I live in Australia, and I got stung by a wasp under my eye when i was a kid. Luckily it didn't effect my vision, but the skin around my eye did swell up bad for around a week. The swelling was far worse than the bite itself, which only hurt for a little while.

[@bantabury]

Never been stung by a wasp or bee and I've never seen a hornet in person. Thank God.

[@Solomon0424]

Me neither, thank the lord.

[@ggarzagarcia]

*Pain, without love* *Pain, can't get enough* *Pain, I like it rough* *Cause I rather, feel, PAIN*

[@jordan_mgsg]

Than nothing at all

[@DakotaofRaptors]

@@mykel723 Anger and agony, are better than misery...

[@Vistakrov7392]

Also why aren't scientist researching about the exacutioner wasp

[@villaholland]

Coyote should try these all.

[@H0A0B123]

He did

[@villaholland]

H all?

[@ShaneHornMusic]

already has

[@SantosOnFire]

Almost all.

[@dragoon9794]

Robb V. Ya

[@boyblueNJ]

“Death doesn’t let you learn” damn this got deep

[@RailfoxStudios]

“Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya?” “Last week I dove headfirst into a nest of bullet ants.” “So?” “Without crying.” “O-oh.”

[@yeetotaquito4635]

Bro I’m shooketh I had an ingrown toenail once and when he said those words I was having vietnam flashbacks

[@かのかり-s1l]

Executioner wasp: *im about to end the bullet ant’s whole career*

[@triviaactivities3794]

Exactly

[@brodieknight772]

This should be called "8 various insect stings rating from least to most painful"

[@AdmiralWillisLee1942]

Not including the king of sting, the executioner!

[@spamuel98]

You'd think if someone is INTENTIONALLY getting themselves stung by these things, scientists would be able to study their venom...

[@letsRegulateSociopaths]

Yeah, if you are ALLERGIC to a Bee, it literally feels like getting hit with a hammer.

[@dexterd1188]

The brave scientists lining up to study the pain index? What about the brave volunteers? I love the answers being sent. We are all connected.more than we think. Hi everyone.

[@masterdyl8514]

Worst stings Kids who watched Brave Wilderness: The Expert

[@bigcountry3712]

Schmidt- "this is the worst pain" Executioner wasp- Exists Coyote Peterson- "But wait, there's more!"

[@thomasneal9291]

tired of hearing about that clown. he's nothing. not a scientist, merely an entertainer. you have zero idea if he was faking any of that, because everything was staged.

[@bigcountry3712]

@@thomasneal9291 damn dude it's just a joke😂 it's not a big deal even if he is faking it all he's doing is trying to educate people about nature. It basically the same as the Crocodile Hunter

[@XSemperIdem5]

They could just interview Coyote Peterson for descriptions of the pain. He worked his way up that rating scale.

[@monochromaticbullet190]

I kept a colony of Red Desert Harvester ants in my senior year of high school and freshman year of college! They were wicked interesting and one of my favorite species of ants.

[@bridgetown1966]

maybe a silly question, but is there any evolutionary benefit to being only able to sting once?

[@blackraven114]

From what I understand, the barbed stingers give honey bees an advantage when fighting other insects. The barbs only tend to get stuck when used against animals with thick skin (humans and other mammals) and not when used to penetrate exoskeletons. I guess the evolutionary point would be that from the Queen's (and hence gene) perspective, the worker bees are expendable. There is no real evolutionary advantage to expending resources developing a more mechanically robust stinger for all the worker bees when the Queen can just replace the relatively few who die using them.

[@geekfreak2000]

Bees are eusocial organisims, meaning that they will self sacrifice for the good of the hive. This actually is beneficial, because all the bees in a hive share about 75% simmilar dna. Because, evoloutaniaraly speaking, an organisim is considered to be successful if it passes on its genes to the next generation and the queen is the only one that can reproduce and has extrodinaraly simmilar dna to her sister worker bees, it's far more beneficial to sacrifice one individual if it means protecting the hive ,the queen,and the baby bees, because they have a much greater chance of passing on their genes indirectly. Ants, termites, and naked mole rats are also eusocial species.

[@KriegsMeister27]

If the stinger and venom sac remain on the stung it greatly increases the toxin transfer which then increases the volatility and duration of the sting. i.e. it hurts way more

[@Hellheart]

Maurice Downes RexRankor is essentially correct. Most of the time they sting invading insects. The barb makes them more effective against exoskeletons. It just so happens to screw them over when stinging fleshy things.

[@kyberkreeper]

"And they're all *social predatory wasps."* Translation: "And they're all *assholes."*

[@teodorgut6401]

This video need to be modified. Coyote Peterson got stung by the Japanese Giant Hornet and the Executioner Wasp, both stings are more painful than all of these.

[@Epicsting]

also when he was stung by the warrior wasp it didnt lose its stinger so the part about it being barbed is wrong.

[@CheifSmokinDank]

He ranked the japanese giant hornet on the same scale as the bullet ant and the executioner wasp has one of, if not thee most painful sting of any insect. Both deserve a place on the list you're right.

[@gerble36]

@@Epicsting Just because it is barbed, doesn't mean it will always stick in your skin. All wasps and bees have barbs on their stingers. It is just that honey bees have the most barbed stingers. Some wasps have larger barbs, like the warrior wasp for example, but their barbs aren't as large as the honey bees. It just means that some times, they can sting more then once. But more often then not, they will stick just like honey bee stingers.

[@angelitabecerra]

I'm expecting Bullet Ants to make it on this list. Don't disappoint me SciShow. Good, you didn't disappoint me

[@D3vnG]

*Brave wilderness has joined the conversation*

[@aeea8318]

"Yellow jacket wasp" ... Just soooo many jokes can be done... 😏

[@cubeoi]

Executioner Wasp : *Hold my nest*

[@1mr255]

4:01 : "FOR SCIENCE!"

[@thekingofjesters2368]

Wasps are my mortal enemies

[@rotomblack8389]

“Death doesn’t let you learn” this needs to be on merch! 😍💀👻

[@AyaVanillaCat]

I Thought It Said “Singing” 😂

[@DatsRandom]

I got stung by a mosquito once. I didn't even feel it lol I'm just tough like that.

[@raaston9761]

breaking my bones don't hurt

[@darkhunter9474]

It only itches

[@ybajoe9773]

crushing my ring finger till I can see bone felt literally like nothing(not a lie) maybe it was too much for my body to send signals as? and getting cut by glass deep in my shin didn't hurt ,but walking after did a little bit

[@Cashownsyourass]

No velvet ant, aka "cow killer"?

[@agwager]

9 ... Giant Hornet 10... Executioner Wasp ... Time for a top 10 video update. Nice job.

[@RyanMartinezUkulelelessons]

I'm glad harvester ants gained the recognition they deserve. Some of the ones here in South Texas have a volleyball sized AOE. Just one ant. It evolved the venom to kill horning toads

[@Bombay1618]

There's *a lot* of personification on Schmidt's lurid, sultry list. Adjectives.

[@Misszx14]

Coyote Peterson: *Am I a Joke to you*

[@Flumenow]

Coyote Peterson

[@sciencenewsoverbrews5798]

Nailed it!

[@bigwig5395]

Nebbster I bet he wouldn't do the Japanese giant hornet

[@ShouHeiKun1932]

Head Hancho isn’t that more dangerous than painful? Like those things kill people every year.

[@yonny4804]

Nebbster i instantly thought of that when i saw the thumbnail

[@danm8004]

Be brave, stay wild!

[@HamletTwin]

Bouncer: Welcome to the Salty Spitoon, how tough are ya? Tarantula Hawk: How tough am I? How tough am I?! I had a bowl of tarantulas for breakfast! Bouncer: Uh.. go ahead right this way sir

[@potatomanjeffers3542]

I once lived in a house where we had several harvester ant nests in our yard. Me and my siblings loved to spray them with a power hose. We got a lot of stings, and it hurt. So we killed more of them. And got stung more. It was a vicious cycle.