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BY A WHAT

THATS ALL THE BIG SCARIES IN ONE BUG TFFF
JU

Give it a dime, apparently.

Had to go research this thing, and the answer to what to do if it stings you is scream.

from Wikipedia-

“One researcher described the pain as “…immediate, excruciating, unrelenting pain that simply shuts down one’s ability to do anything, except scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations. In terms of scale, the wasp’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 “blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric”.“

Soooooo…dissociate to escape or?

It’s laying eggs in you.

Let’s back up a second and fully appreciate that description.

The Schmidt sting pain index, a widely used classification system for the bites and stings of ants, bees and wasps, is literally the personal ranking system of a guy named Justin Schmidt, who goes around letting bugs sting him for science. Like, that’s this Thing as a scientist.

In one entry, he describes the sting of the common bee as “almost pleasant, [like] a lover just bit your earlobe a little too hard.”

In another, the sting of the yellowjacket is described as “hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.“

So when the Schmidt sting pain index characterises the sting of the tarantula hawk as “blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric”, well, now you know what your standard for comparison is!

this is fascinating but when do we kinkshame Justin Schmidt

did I ever tell y’all about the time I caught a tarantula hawk in a tupperware

Unsure if brave or completely insane

after it got loose the first time I came back when it got done chasing me

What to do if you’re bitten? Laugh, it’s a wasp. They have a pretty good bite, but that’s like having a knife and deciding to poke somebody with the handle end. Also, maybe try not to be in biting range of a gigantic wasp.

What to do if you’re stung?

Scream+curse all you want. That’s it. Barring an allergy, the sting isn’t medically significant.

They’re not dangerous to humans, not really, they just hurt. 

Also, they aren’t at all aggressive. They run fast, but they fly slow and buzz loudly, and they have 0 interest in something that isn’t a tarantula. Mostly because they have no nest to defend and are fully aware that they’re intimidating. If you don’t grab one, it won’t sting you. 

So, unless you’re immune to pain, DON’T GRAB ONE. 

And it is /not/ laying eggs in you. It’s injecting a paralytic that’s intended to paralyze a tarantula so it can lay eggs in the tarantula, but, since you aren’t a tarantula or approximately the size of one, you’ll be fine.