{"id":35014,"date":"2022-02-10T09:31:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=35014"},"modified":"2022-02-10T09:31:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:31:21","slug":"watch-guy-get-stung-tarantula-hawk-wasp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/culture\/watch-guy-get-stung-tarantula-hawk-wasp\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch this guy get stung by a Tarantula Hawk Wasp"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 766px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com\/originals\/bb\/bc\/a8\/bbbca8e8c8761fc891b54d788219c289.gif\" alt=\"Image result for tarantula hawk\" width=\"766\" height=\"591\" title=\"\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A big ol&#8217; handful of &#8216;NOPE&#8217;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><strong>The Tarantula Hawk Wasp is one of the gnarliest insects on the planet.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>It hunts freakin&#8217; tarantula&#8217;s.<\/strong><\/em> It stings the spider, which paralyzes it, and then <em>lays an egg on its abdomen<\/em>. The Tarantula Hawk then buries its victim in a specially prepared brooding nest so when the eggs hatch, they have a nice meal awaiting them.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from being the essence of evil, the Tarantula Hawk also boasts <strong>the second most painful sting known to man<\/strong>.\u00a0One researcher described the pain as &#8220;\u2026immediate, excruciating, unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one&#8217;s ability to do anything, except scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In terms of scale, the wasp&#8217;s sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt sting pain index, second only to that of the bullet ant, and is described by Schmidt as &#8220;blinding, fierce, and shockingly electric&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Schmidt sting pain index<\/strong> is a pain scale rating the relative pain caused by different hymenopteran stings. &#8220;Hymenopteran&#8221; refers to the third-largest order of insects, comprising the sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 species are recognized, with many more remaining to be described.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/thawkpainindex.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41394\" src=\"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/thawkpainindex.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"536\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>So what does it feel like to be stung by a Tarantula Hawk?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On a recent episode of, &#8220;<em>Breaking Trail<\/em>&#8220;, show host &#8216;Coyote&#8217; takes one hard in the name of education!<\/p>\n<p>This is like &#8216;Jackass&#8217; for scientists&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STUNG by a TARANTULA HAWK!\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MnExgQ81fhU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In all fairness&#8230; <strong>the Wild Boyz pioneered the science of learning about animals and then getting stung by them<\/strong> for your entertainment&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wearing a Glove of Venomous Ants | National Geographic\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XEWmynRcEEQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tarantula Hawk Wasp is one of the gnarliest insects on the planet. It hunts freakin&#8217; tarantula&#8217;s. It stings the spider, which paralyzes it, and then lays an egg on its abdomen. The Tarantula Hawk then buries its victim in a specially prepared brooding nest so when the eggs hatch, they have a nice meal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35015,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19],"tags":[2884,5370,7110],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}