Starr sting pain scale

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Also see Schmidt Sting Pain Index

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 1 Scale 2 References 3 Notes 4 See also

[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

1. ^ 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