Read with patience! Am sure you will find it interesting! I concentrated more in the blog today than sketch and it shows!
Many times many of you would have got up one day and though, “Wish I was born in some other country!” But the value of water is felt only by those who have been stuck in the desert!
In any case you can be thankful that you are not born in this tribe in the Amazon! The tribe is called Satere-Mawe! Though it sounds like a satire, it is far from fun!
Before that you must know of this pain index, the Schmidt Pain Index ranks insect stings on a scale of 0 to 4 — 0 being no pain at all and 4 being absolutely excruciating!
Now many of you would have been bit or more accurately stung by the bee! Remember how painful it was! The bad news is that it is only 2 in the index!
Rated at the almost top of the scale (4.0), but still not the most painful sting, is that of the tarantula hawk. Their bite has been called Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has been dropped into your bubble bath. A bolt out of the heavens. All you apparently do is Lie down and scream!
Sometimes referred to as “spider wasps,” tarantula hawks grow up to two inches in length and the bright color of their wings acts as a warning to any potential predators. By nature, tarantula hawks are not aggressive…to humans at least.
Now if you have arachnophobia and are scared of spiders like tarantulas then this is a wasp even the Tarantulas fear!
Female tarantula hawks will paralyze the spider and proceed to lay an egg on its abdomen. The newly-hatched larva will then feed on the immobile spider. In the United States, tarantula hawks are primarily found in desert regions.
They repeat the ritual until the boy can endure the stinging and ensuing pain and paralysis without shedding a tear. This can take up to 20 attempts!
In spite of this gruesome nature and bite, they are not top in the list!
The top bite champion is an ant!
The most painful sting of all — the bullet ant sting!
The pain has been described as “pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel” and rated i
as a 4.0+!
off-the-charts pain that lasts up to 24 hours.
These ants are the largest of the ant family, at about one inch in length. Like others on this list, bullet ants are not instinctively aggressive, but become so when as a defense mechanism. Their sting releases poneratoxin, a neurotoxic peptide that causes severe muscle contractions, a burning sensation, and great pain.
Coming to the Satere-Mawe tribe and why you are fortunate that you are not born in that tribe!
One of the test of being a ‘man’ or manhood for the boys is to force their hands into gloves filled with, yes! The bullet ant! And you think it’s hard! Nothing is easy! Like the difficult and formidable task done by the great birthday celebrity Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata to make start Tata group which is now one of the best conglomerate in the country and the world!
Now watch out for any red ants below your bed and sleep!
Good night!
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