The Sting of the Wild
- Format: Pocket
- Antall sider: 280
- Språk: Engelsk
- Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
- EAN: 9781421425641
- Utgivelsesår: 2018
- Bidragsyter: Schmidt, Justin O. (Southwestern Biological Institute)
The ¿King of Sting¿ describes his adventures with insects and the pain scale that¿s made him a scientific celebrity.
Silver, Science (Adult Non-Fiction) Foreword INDIES Award 2017
Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it¿s a brave exploration, others shake their heads in disbelief. His goal? To compare the impacts of stinging insects on humans, mainly using himself as the test case.
In The Sting of the Wild, the colorful Dr. Schmidt takes us on a journey inside the lives of stinging insects. He explains how and why they attack and reveals the powerful punch they can deliver with a small venom gland and a ¿sting,¿ the name for the apparatus that delivers the venom. We learn which insects are the worst to encounter and why some are barely worth considering.
The Sting of the Wild includes the complete Schmidt Sting Pain Index, published here for the first time. In addition to a numerical ranking of the agony of each of th