About two months ago, we witnessed outdoor adventurer Coyote Peterson let a wasp known as a tarantula hawk sting him on his arm. Boasting the second most painful sting in the insect world, the ...

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Ants may be small, but some species pack a powerful punch with their venom. Among these, the South American bullet ant (Paraponera clavata) is famous for delivering one of the most excruciating stings ...

A bullet ant displays its fangs while sitting on a leaf. Ants that inflict the world's most painful stings do so by injecting venom that targets their victim's nerve cells, new research has found.

If you've ever been stung by a wasp or a bee, you know how much it hurts. Now imagine that pain elevated to the searing of a gunshot wound, and you get the bullet ant. The bullet ant -- Paraponera ...

Over his career, adventurer and naturalist Steve Backshall has endured all sorts of pain, but perhaps the worst came from a creature "no bigger than a fuse." Meet the bullet ant. Native to the western ...

If you’ve been stung by an ant, you know how painful it can be. Australian researchers have found that some of the most painful ant stings are caused by nerve-targeting neurotoxins. But, unlike those ...

How much does a bee sting hurt, exactly? How about a bullet ant bite? An entomologist has built an index ranking insect stings — after getting... No Pain, No Scientific Gain: One Man's Quest To ...

About two months ago, we witnessed outdoor adventurer Coyote Peterson let a wasp known as a tarantula hawk sting him on his arm. Boasting the second most painful sting in the insect world, the ...