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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].

Contents

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

  1. ^ E. Hoyt, T. Schultz (2002). Insect Lives, Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World. 

See also

 
This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Starr_sting_pain_scale". A list of authors is available in Wikipedia.
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