“Pure, then messy, then corrosive,” according to entomologist Justin Schmidt, otherwise known as the King of Sting. Like the sting of the fierce black polybia wasp, which apparently feels like “a ritual gone wrong, Satanic. In the book, he recounts his lifelong adventures in pursuit of pain, and explains how and why stinging insects attack. (This being an actual insect species of the order Hymenoptera, as opposed to a Turner-nominated waspish type with a vendetta.) He experiences most stings while collecting live nests on field trips or, failing that, by applying an insect to his arm in the lab.

Source: Daily Nation June 21, 2016 16:41 UTC