Ouch! And then some.

Comparison:

“Bold and unrelenting. Someone using a power drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.“

Ah, to what may we compare the sting of a Florida Harvesting Ant? Justin O. Schmidt uses some combination of a wine review and a description of potent hot sauce to help us anticipate the pain associated with a Florida Harvesting Ant sting. He reviews 30 insect stings in this clever, if painful, manner.

Context:

Florida Harvester Ant - Pogonomyrmex badius

“Bold and unrelenting. Someone using a power drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.“

Citation:

Schmidt, Justin O. The Sting of the Wild. John Hopkins Univ. Press, 2016.

(Image courtesy of Bob Peterson, Flickr, 03 July 2010. CC 2.0.)