The Sting of the Wild, (Hardcover)

from bemislibrary

The author is an entomologist at the Southwest Biological Institute, University of Arizona where he studied a group of insects called Hymenoptera. There is something about a man who would deliberately subject himself to insect stings to develop a pain scale that just screams dedicated scientist. ...

from mkfs

I went through this book sorely disappointed. Sure, there were narratives describing the greatest hits of Schmidt being stung, and a respectable amount of informative material about insects both social and antisocial - but where was the catalogue of Schmidt Pain Index entries ? You known, the ver...

from Juva

A detailed survey of stinging insects looking at how they evolved, their life cycles, and various cultural meanings. The author is fascinated with the reactions caused by stings and how that has become such a source of fear and instinctual wariness in humans. I enjoyed parts of this book, but in...

from bemislibrary

The author is an entomologist at the Southwest Biological Institute, University of Arizona where he studied a group of insects called Hymenoptera. There is something about a man who would deliberately subject himself to insect stings to develop a pain scale that just screams dedicated scientist. ...

from mkfs

I went through this book sorely disappointed. Sure, there were narratives describing the greatest hits of Schmidt being stung, and a respectable amount of informative material about insects both social and antisocial - but where was the catalogue of Schmidt Pain Index entries ? You known, the ver...