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Starr sting pain scale
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].
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 |
References
- Starr, Christopher K. "A Pain Scale for Bee, Wasp, and Ant Stings"
- 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"
Notes
- ^ E. Hoyt, T. Schultz (2002). Insect Lives, Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World.
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