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re: The most painful insect stings/bites in the world.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 3:36 am to TigerstuckinMS
Posted on 9/18/19 at 3:36 am to TigerstuckinMS
quote:Ants, wasp, and bees are all of the same family, though I think ants broke off on their own evolutionary path during the time of the dinosaurs.
What's the difference between an ant and a flightless wasp? I've heard about flightless wasps before, but I always thought that's just what ants are.
But I’m no entomologist.
Fun fact: Ants make up about a 1/5th of the Earth’s total biomass.
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Posted on 9/18/19 at 4:12 am to GeauxTigerNation
Nothing like a wasp sting on your ear to make life flash before your eyes
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:47 am to SlapahoeTribe
Mutillidae (Wikipedia)
Mutillidae
Velvet Ant (Mutillidae), Dasymutilla, Albuquerque.JPG
Dasymutilla sp.
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Pompiloidea
Family: Mutillidae (Wikipedia)
The Mutillidae are a family of more than 3,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers to their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold.
Me
They are flightless wasps and not ants. That's what I said earlier. Both insects but two different families. So they are not scientifically ants. I wondered about this about six months ago and being a curious type, I looked it up in reference materials (Wikipedia). The moral of this story I guess is if you screw with them they sting you like a wasp and not an ant. But I've never been stung by one and really don't know.
Mutillidae
Velvet Ant (Mutillidae), Dasymutilla, Albuquerque.JPG
Dasymutilla sp.
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Pompiloidea
Family: Mutillidae (Wikipedia)
The Mutillidae are a family of more than 3,000 species of wasps whose wingless females resemble large, hairy ants. Their common name velvet ant refers to their dense pile of hair, which most often is bright scarlet or orange, but may also be black, white, silver, or gold.
Me
They are flightless wasps and not ants. That's what I said earlier. Both insects but two different families. So they are not scientifically ants. I wondered about this about six months ago and being a curious type, I looked it up in reference materials (Wikipedia). The moral of this story I guess is if you screw with them they sting you like a wasp and not an ant. But I've never been stung by one and really don't know.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:53 am to kcon70
quote:
What about an Asp?
I covered this. This in reference materials is the puss caterpillar but is also called the asp caterpillar and I've read they pack a wallop.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:54 am to GeauxTigerNation
Did you know that Red Velvet ants are actually a wingless wasp?
These European Hornets scare me more than anything else in TN:
These European Hornets scare me more than anything else in TN:
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:57 am to The Mick
quote:
There’s never been a death attributed to a brown recluse yet people hype them. FWIW
Ever see what the damage is to the bite area?
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:58 am to GeauxTigerNation
This a-hole has a painful sting.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 5:58 am to The Mick
quote:
There’s never been a death attributed to a brown recluse yet people hype them.
My dad got bitten on the foot by a BR after being in the crawl space of our house.
The tissue around the bite died and there was talk of amputating his leg from the calf down.
He finally got past the necrosis, but would occasionally get sick from the toxins for years after the bite.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:02 am to Eli Goldfinger
quote:
Did you know that Red Velvet ants are actually a wingless wasp?
I'm talking about those red and black 1/2 long fuzzy oversized ant looking things. I'm over 60 and it's only this year that I know they are WINGLESS wasps. They are not ants. Thank god for entomologists and wikipedia else I'd still think they were big ants.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 6:53 am to GeauxTigerNation
I’m coyote Peterson, and I’m about to enter the sting zone
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:07 am to GeauxTigerNation
quote:
His name is coyote peterson his shite is hilarious.
I love the camera guy “are you ok?”
Coyote :writhesongroundinextremepain:
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:12 am to philly444
quote:One got me when I was 12. It hurt so bad, I cried like a baby. It hurt for hours at what had to be a level 4. Nothing helped. Don’t ever touch one of these!
the puss caterpillar
Posted on 9/18/19 at 7:21 am to GeauxTigerNation
I would put honeybee more as level 1, they aren't THAT bad
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:06 am to GeauxTigerNation
I picked up a red velvet ant in middle school on the playground.
I cried
for over an hour
I cried
for over an hour
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:10 am to deltaland
For the longest time I thought his name was “Cody Peterson” and he just had an Australian accent (I wouldn’t watch the whole video just him being stung)
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:11 am to White Bear
quote:
Nest is probably 10-12” in diameter and completely black with wasps.
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:12 am to GeauxTigerNation
quote:
Executioner Wasp:
Now THIS sounds like a bad MF !
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:17 am to GeauxTigerNation
frick all of that nonsense
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:28 am to VolsOut4Harambe
Posted on 9/18/19 at 8:49 am to DirtyMikeandtheBoys
I picked one up at the house one day as a kid. I don't remember excruciating pain, but I have always remembered never to do it again.
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