Schmidt sting pain index painful. However, insect stings that feel very different can be put into the same level. Thus, Schmidt always includes a brief description of his experience being stung by each type of insect. On that note, these stings are based on Schmidt's subjective perspective, and insect stings can vary person to person, so the scale is not universal. Some of the insect stings Schmidt considers to be at a pain level of 1 include the Southern fire ant, the elongate twig ant, the Western paper wasp, the white-faced bee, and most small bees. The duration of the pain of insect stings
Myrmecia (ant) which was to determine what native Australian ants were associated with ant sting anaphylaxis, 265 of the 376 participants in the study reacted to the sting of several "Myrmecia" species. Of these, the majority of patients (176) reacted to "M. pilosula" venom and to those of several other species. In Perth, "M. gratiosa" was responsible for most cases of anaphylaxis due to ant stings, while "M nigriscapa" and "M. ludlowi" were responsible for two cases. The green-head ant ("Rhytidoponera metallica") was the only ant other than "Myrmecia" species to cause anaphylaxis in patients. Dogs are also at risk of death