The Sting of the Wild av Justin O. (Southwestern Biological Institute) Schmidt

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<p><b>The ¿King of Sting¿ describes his adventures with insects and the pain scale that¿s made him a scientific celebrity.</b></p><p>Silver, Science (Adult Non-Fiction) Foreword INDIES Award 2017</p><p>Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it¿s a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the test case.</p><p>In <i>The Sting of the Wild</i>, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a journey inside the lives of stinging insects. He explains how and why they attack and reveals the powerful punch they can deliver with a small venom gland and a ¿sting,¿ the name for the apparatus that delivers the venom. We learn which insects are the worst to encounter and why some are barely worth considering. </p><p><i>The Sting of the Wild </i>includes the complete Schmidt Sting Pain Index, published here for the first time. In addition to a numerical ranking of the agony of each of th