Entomologist Justin Schmidt recorded his own experience of venomous stings, to rate and describe the pain caused by the venom of insects. Explore part of Schmidt’s pain index below. Schmidt’s pain ...

As an undergraduate, she had studied chronic-pain pathways, using mice as a model for humans, but she had never worked with insects. When she typed four words into Google—“Do insects feel pain ...

Insects can be fascinating to watch and study ... Although they do not fall onto Schmidt’s Sting Pain Index, which is considered an official evaluation of stings throughout the world, a YouTuber ...

Now, researchers have discovered that these insects have multiple proteins in ... The researcher Justin Schmidt, who invented the Schmidt sting pain index, described their sting as “explosive ...