Bullet ants
These inch-long insects are named after their stingers, and the pain generated by their bites is like being shot by a bullet. Most scientists say the insect's stingers cause the most intense pain. Randy Morganma, director of the Cincinnati Zoo's Invertebrate, Reptile and Amphibians Museum, said, "I've been bitten by a bullet ant and I feel the pain is the most intense than other poisonous insects. It lasts 2 to 3 hours, and I keep feeling like someone is hitting me hard with a baseball bat, and the pain is so deep into the bone marrow that it's unbearable."
Bullet ants scored the highest on the schmidt sting pain index, topped the top ten most venomous animals in the world. The index, produced by Justin Schmidt, director of the Southwestern Institute of Biology, compares the pain-causing factors of different insects. How did he know how stinging the insects were? In order to make this index table, he personally tried the bites of various poisonous insects. The Schmidt Sting Index describes the sting of bullet ants as "severe pain without any component." It's like walking barefoot on fiery red charcoal, and there are 3-inch nails stuck into the heels." A native tribe in South America (where bullet ants are produced) uses bullet ants to rigorously test the young people in their department — young people must wear gloves with hundreds of angry bullet ants. Not only do these young men have to let the bullet ant bite for 10 minutes at a time, but they also have to repeat it 20 times. But fortunately for them, although this insect is very painful after biting, it does not leave permanent damage.
Black Widow Spider
This poisonous spider grows in much of the southern United States, and although about 95 percent of its attacks do not have serious consequences, if you are unfortunate enough to be bitten by a healthy Black Widow spider on a thinly skinned area, you will undoubtedly be tormented by extreme pain. Leslie Boyle said, "I hope not to be bitten by the Black Widow spider for the rest of my life." Once, a village doctor called her and asked for treatment of a patient who had been bitten by a black widow spider, "This patient is a healthy sports man in his 20s, who only said one sentence of pain that he could not breathe, and then he could not continue the pain, and the intense pain at that time could be imagined."
After being bitten by the Black Widow spider, it does not feel very painful at first, because the wound is not large, but after an hour and a half, the toxicity at the wound will attack, invading the human muscle tissue, causing muscle spasms and body pain, and the muscles everywhere are spasming and painful for several days. But Leslie also stressed that don't talk about the Black Widow spider because of this, "I have had this spider on my own porch and in the house, they never leave their webs, you never have to worry about them crawling around." 」
scorpion
There are many species of scorpions in the world, and all scorpions have poisonous spines. Some scorpion stingers are similar to those of bees or bumblebees, but some scorpion stingers can cause severe pain. Dan Powell said: "There are scorpion stingers in the Old World that can cause severe pain. And the pain will continue to get worse." These types of scorpions are common in Africa and Asia, and they can cause both severe pain and can be fatally dangerous. However, the Arizona wood scorpion in the southwestern United States does not pose much of a threat to healthy adults. However, it can cause severe and unbearable pain. Dr. Leslie Powell, who has nothing to do with Dan Powell, said, "If you're an adult and this scorpion bites your finger, don't panic, it just stimulates your painful nerves and blocks nerves in specific areas."
Leslie Powell, director of drugs at the Arizona Center for Toxin and Drug Confidence Research, said the scorpion's stingers would make "your arm feel swollen." If you tap or touch something else with that finger, the area of pain immediately expands. Leslie said, "If you tap the wound, it will make you scream in pain." The pain will slowly extend through this small wound to the arm, but you won't see any marks." Because she has experienced many poisonous insect stingers and bites, "I often eat morphine like candy."
Stonefish
The stonefish looks mediocre on the outside, but its bite power is outstanding, both painful and deadly. It grows in rock crevices in shallow waters in tropical oceans, with several extremely sharp spikes on its back, which will disguise itself as a rock or coral, and once a hapless passing animal steps on it, the spikes on the back of the stonefish will pierce its skin and inject a deadly venom. The pain of the alleged stabbing was sharp and intense.
One unfortunate victim once described his experience in an online forum for aquarium animal lovers, "In Australia, my finger was stabbed by a stone fish, and I don't mind letting the bee sting anymore, it was like every knuckle, then the wrist joint, the elbow and the shoulder were struck in turn by a sledgehammer, the feeling lasted for an hour, and then there was a feeling of being kicked in the kidney area for about 45 minutes, and you couldn't stand up or stand up straight." I was not yet 30 years old, my body was very good, and the wound from the stonefish stab was very small, but it was not until a few days later that my fingers began to regain consciousness, and what is more, I would suffer kidney pain periodically for several years after being stabbed."
Other stabbed wounds even demanded amputation of their injured limbs. Hutch, from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, who has been in close contact with stonefish, believes that the pain of the animal's stabbing is "definitely among the top ten most poisonous animals in the world".
The Great Poison Lizard
The large poisonous lizard is huge, slow-moving, and distributed in the southwestern United States, and the pain of being bitten by it is even more amazing. Cecil Swabi, an ecologist who has participated in the U.S. Geological Survey, was once bitten by a large poisonous lizard while performing in front of more than 200 people, and he said that the pain was the most he had ever experienced. "My fingers were on fire, and the flames gradually extended to my whole body. In less than 5 minutes, I was pale, in shock, without kidney pain, hematuria, etc., and every sphincter in my body tried to relax. At that time, the big poisonous lizard stayed on my finger for about 2 minutes, biting me 5 times, and each bite hurt my heart and lungs."
The reason why the pain is so intense comes from two aspects: First, the teeth of the large poison lizard are very sharp, each one is a quarter of the inch long, and when it bites people, it will bite hard and not let go, and there have been cases that when the bitten person rushed to the hospital for medical treatment, the big poison lizard still bit the loose mouth. Second, the venom component of the great poison lizard is very special, blocking collagen and venous septum, with the ultimate consequence of "triggering inflammation and extreme pain". When the pain is extreme, the compounds in the venom can cause people to sweat, diarrhea, vomiting and even lower blood pressure.
The great poisonous lizard is so toxic that it is protected by instinct, because its slow movement is very easy to become the target prey, so it can only rely on the highly toxic venom to protect itself from predators. Although its venom has hurt a few people, it has also helped many more: it has successfully developed a new drug called byetta, which is used as a raw material for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. Scientists believe that the drug is only the tip of the iceberg in the application of venom, and the various venoms listed above have different components, all of which have the potential to cure diseases, and will turn poison into treasure in the future and contribute to human health
Rattlesnakes and their close relatives
If you had to choose a member of the Snake Clan that you don't want to provoke, it would be rattlesnakes and their close relatives. Usually bitten by these poisonous snakes is not fatal, but it can cause severe and unbearable pain. Van Wallach of harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology was bitten by several venomous snakes, the most serious of which, according to him, was "bitten by a venomous snake in a bush in a bush in Africa." It feels like someone is holding a red-hot iron pipe and inserting it into your arm. After 3 days of painful struggle, the pain slowly eased."
Kelly Zamdi, a biologist at Cornell University, said she felt the same way after being bitten by another family of venomous snakes, the rattlesnake. "I felt a sharp burning sensation, as if someone was burning me with a soldering iron, but there was never a mark on my body," she said. The reason why it produces severe pain after being bitten by this venomous snake is because its venom has the effect of destroying tissues, it can break down cell walls, causing internal bleeding. Venom flows through all parts of the body, causing damage to the body, so the pain will become more and more intense. The venom of a venomous snake, which can have a destructive effect on tissues, is not specifically used against humans, but is used to digest food. When snakes catch rodents, birds, and other prey, venom helps them quickly break down the tissues of their prey, making it easier for them to swallow their prey.
stingray
Edward Meltini, a research biologist in the Fisheries Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said that although the animal gained a bad reputation after the Steve Alvin incident, stingrays are not aggressive or deadly animals. Although they have thorns, they are rarely used, "but once they are stabbed, it is very painful." When threatened, these gentle animals attack with serrated spines with pointed tails. Jon Hoch, head of the Monterey bay aquarium, said: "This kind of thorn can cause serious injuries to the body. It will also produce severe pain, making people feel like a hole in the body is poked by a nail. It's like being caught by a cat, and there's a lot of bacteria on the stingray spines."
On the surface of a large area of stabbing, the venom can cause instant pain. Stingrays only use stingers for defense, and do not use them to catch or attack prey. Many marine biologists and divers know that this animal is the "big cat" of the ocean. "I do stingray research, I swim with them a lot, I feed them with my hands, and they have a very gentle temperament," Hohe said. However, when moving your body, be sure to be careful under your feet.
Box jellyfish
These transparent marine life are poisons on tropical beaches. They are considered to be a very dangerous creature in the animal kingdom, and their tentacles contain highly toxic substances that can kill humans. And this venom can cause unbearable severe pain. The box jellyfish's tentacles release many needles into the victim's skin, each containing a pain-causing factor, so it has been called "the most painful stinger in the world." Dr Joseph Bonet, former head of the Department of Dermatology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, said: "There is no doubt they are really that powerful. Bullet ants can't compare to it." Dan Powell, curator of reptiles and amphibians at the San Diego Zoo, said that while the stingers of box jellyfish appear to be a defensive tool, "they not only use these stingers to torment people on the beach, but they also use them to hunt prey, such as shrimp." Because struggling shrimp can easily damage the fragile body of a box jellyfish, it must kill the shrimp quickly.
Venom cobra
Although this cobra is also poisonous when it bites people, it is actually not very painful and threatening, and what is really fatal is the venom it spews, which will be even more terrifying if it is sprayed directly into the human eye. It's the perfect means of a cobra's defense mechanism — spraying venom into an attacker's eye, blinding it and creating a burning sensation. Like many other similar animals, the cobra's function is used to drive away attackers, not to take the initiative.
Van Wallach was one of the unfortunate victims when he was attacked by cobra venom in the Philippines. He recalls, "It was so painful that I had to pour milk into my eyes every 15 minutes to relieve the pain, and then I couldn't see for the next 4 to 6 hours."
The venom spewed by cobras contains neurotoxins, tissue-damaging chemicals, and other dangerous elements that cause intense pain. If the injury is severe, it can lead to permanent blindness. Once it encounters the Venom Cobra unexpectedly — although it's very rare to bump into it and has very little chance of bumping into it — it's secured more than 10 feet away, as its venom spray distance is between about 4 and 8 feet.
Spider Eagle Wasp
This solitary multicolored wasp uses the toxins on its antennae to anesthetize tarantulas that are larger than itself and allow their children to eat as food. However, it is not aggressive and rarely bites humans. Leslie Boyle said, "You even have to force them to bite you, but the pain of the sting is extraordinary." According to bite research expert Schmidt, the pain of being bitten by it is second only to that of bullet ants, "when it bites a person, it is like being hit by a thunderbolt, and people can't help but scream or even writhe or roll in extreme pain, just like every muscle in the body is hit, this feeling is absolutely unique among the top ten most poisonous animals in the world."
Unlike the other top ten animals, this tarantula predator's venom is not used for defense, but for the tarantula, which is used to poison prey that is much larger than itself. The female wasp lays an egg on top of a spider that has been poisoned, and the spider is doomed to death. Slowly, the wasp eggs hatch into hungry larvae, which will continuously eat the spider raw as it grows.
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