The Most PAINFUL Sting in the World?
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- The bullet ant has the most painful sting of all ants, bees, and wasps acording to the legendary Schmidt Sting Pain Index. From the reports I have seen on UA-cam, it is excruciating, debilitating, and incapacitating for up to 24 hours. So how bad is it really? Well during our trip to the Peruvian Amazon, we had to find out! Bullet Ant Challenge accepted!
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Next tarantula hawk wasp then executioner wasp
Also it probably depends on how many times even one Aunt chooses to invenimate you that Aunt did seem to be a bit lethargic
What reptile would you suggest for someone who is far from a pet store, with a cat and who wants something to handle?
Please do an "Amazon tree boa, best pet for you?" Episode. There's so little information on then, but I have a feeling they're going to be a popular arboreal alternativ3 to the Emeralds
Asking for the velvet ant immediately after the bullet ant is the worst version of the "this edible ain't ****" reaction I ever heard.
lol
I'll settle for neither
@@jonpilledsingledad that's because you're a coward
Lol I’m 47 years old, until recently, I never would have understood your reference. Until I tried edibles. I was trying to watch On patrol Live, and was pissed because I was seeing “the useless future” not realizing that the Live version hadn’t started yet and they were just showing a previous episode..which is how I knew what was going to happen. Yep, the “useless future” edible superpower lol
@@TheDawnbringer I suggest a low dose of shrooms if you ever go for those
Clint is such a teacher.
Will: I want to get stung
Clint: ok but only on the last day (maybe he will rethink it.... Please?)
I mean this in the nicest way possible. When you imagine biologists, it's these guys.
Love this ❤
They might have the passion, but they lack the wholesome persuasive speech that Clint has.
A couple of guys who keep referring to being stung by an ant as being bitten?
Maybe to the layman. I'm in a lab most of my time. If I'm in the field its generally looking at the ecosystem a fossil is found in or looking for fossils. Not all of us work with live animals directly all the time unfortunately
@@TheMilkMan8008 yeah, Clint is a zoologist I think. This person is thinking about zoologist. Most biologists are like you, doing lab work.
I love how the sting reactions here sync up tonally with the overall tone of the channel just as Coyote’s are tonally consistent with his. This might be the mellowest channel on here - and that’s a good thing.
Coyote is an entertainer, not an educator.
@@ayyyy1493 Hes not good at either
@@FuzzyTime people put their hands in gloves full of a hundred bullet ants and don't react as over the top as Peterson.
@@LostInTheVoid98You can't speak for everyone, some people are entertained by his content
@@xtstxn his entertainment comes from overreacting and screaming around, its objectively not good entertainment.
I much prefer realism over drama. Good job, as always!
Is the camera still rolling? Oh, " AHH AHH AHH get the revive paddles " still on?
didn't he nearly get his face ripped off by a dog? i imagine that would hurt a lot more
@@613-shadow9 No?
@@ItIsYouAreNotYour i pretty sure he talks about it in another video. he got reconstructive surgery, btw
@@613-shadow9 Probably another exaggeration. I can't believe anything that dude says anymore. Is the camera on? Oh, I mean "AHH AHH AHH call PET CONTROL AHH AHH"
I think coyote said in his anaconda episode that there could be a 30’ anaconda right around the corner from him . He definitely exaggerated the length of an anaconda. That kind of stuff drives me crazy . I like Clint because he’s so factual.
He recently pulled that nonsense with sasquatch too. Just disappointing. I generally like his content but it clearly has a large dollop of acting thrown on top of it.
I really don't care for coyote and for the same reason,I prefer Clint's programs.
That kind of crap is why I can't watch his stuff. I've watched 3 or 4 of his videos, after that I called it quits. Just SO MUCH exaggeration and screaming for the camera. It's more sensationalism and histrionics than information. Not to mention his main schtick involves just pissing animals off, which I don't like.
Even the gila monster, considered a relatively docile and relucent to bite animal, bit him. Supposedly by accident, of course. Ugh...
@@kj_H65f right! he's gotten so click baity...and i hate when people compare him to Steve Irwin....
@@6steeven3 Dingo Dinkleman is more worthy of being compared to Steve Irwin :)
I've always felt there's a huge difference between pain you expect and choose to experience, vs something that hits you out of nowhere when you REALLY did NOT want to deal with it. I would not be surprised if it changes how the brain and body even react by a significant factor.
Yeah, it's kinda like location in that sense. The same intensity in your thigh compared to your tooth or head is totally different lol. Hard to not focus on etc.
@@hi_tech_reptiles the location is simply the case of receptors and body response.
The individual ant could matter too. Wonder if there's regional differences. Or perhaps these ants were kinda fresh from a hunt.
It definitely does...the body is crazy that way.
There is very much an emotional element to pain, especially in humans, so fear or surprise can absolutely be multipliers. Pain is such an interesting phenomenon; take tattoos for example, two people will have completely different opinions on which part of their body is the most painful to tattoo. Pain levels can be affected by how well you've slept, or eaten, and all sorts of other things.
For me, my mental health affected how much pain I felt when being tattooed. As my state of mind improved I was definitely feeling more pain and I was struggling to deal with it as well as I had in the past. I find it really interesting :)
That “But maybe it’s more real” was absolutely brutal
Those defending Coyote's overreactions for the kids - that is deliberately lying to the viewer because they are 'kids' when that could potentially cause misinformation.
Will: "I honestly wanted to have a sobbing experience where I'm throwing up everywhere..."
Go for the ayahuasca next time you're in Peru instead of the bullet ant then.
🤣🤣 Couldn't agree more! You laugh, you sob, you throw up, and the result might follow you for a lifetime.
Hahaha
I saw some people in the comment section defending Coyote’s reaction because of content. But honestly, it’s just blatant lying. It promotes fear, when in reality, that should not be the case. It’s actually irritating to me. I appreciate the educational factor in this type of content, and it’s more satisfying to me getting the truth.
My main take-away from this is that migraines are WAAYYYY worse than non-sufferers realise...and I find that deeply validating :D
As someone who's gotten sick from a migraine, I'd imagine this probably didn't feel as bad as that
Me too. I get debilitating ones that can last for days. I can't eat and barely can drink water sometimes bc if the nausea and motions to do so. It sucks.
I had a bad one yesterday where all I could eat was bread and butter. Today is a little better so I've had soup and bread n butter. At least I didn't have vomiting this time. People who have never had one have no idea.
@@dreyhawk even just caffeine migraines have made me vomit before, we're basically proving stings can't be as bad
Migraines can be incredibly awful.
Jack's world of wildlife does a great job of myth busting dramatic sting reactions!
LOVE that channel. Very informative and educates people about insects and how they aren't the dangerous "creepy crawlies" many people think they are.
that channel needs more recognition.
I like him, too. He does a lot of overreacting as a joke to show things aren't as bad as other make them seem, but his actual reactions seem very genuine. Especially when you see the brown recluse and black widow ones.
Love jacks world of wildlife and my wild backyard. They’re both more truthful about bites and stings….and also how most creatures are reluctant to bite or sting.
@@ThePollaton I've... I've been namedropped in a CLINT'S REPTILES comments section?? I'm fangirling so hard rn not gonna lie
Regarding the discrepancy in reactions: I totally believe Coyote was playing it up. But, it is also worth remembering that it extremely likely that different localities could have different venoms. I know that rattlesnakes do, it would suprise me if other organisms didn't.
One was also being squished against the skin, the other was just dropped on - It could be that different perceived levels of threat resulted in a warning sting rather than a full blown defensive sting.
Please never attempt to be stung by any insect without an in-date epipen present. You never know if you will have an anaphylactic reaction to insect venom.
@@hnewc1919 has nothing to with being a Karen, that can absolutely happen and you wanna be prepared for that.
@@hnewc1919 it’s solid advice and absolutely accurate. If you have an allergic reaction it could kill you.
@@MrJayza89 it seems that the person that made the dumb comment deleted it after being called out on it. And yes, most people that die from insect sting or bite do not die from the venom itself but by being anaphylaxis to the venom.
Paramedic here. I heartily agree.
Unless you’re double dog dared
You don’t need a viral video! You have a solid fan base who loves what you do and how you do it! You don’t get that going viral. You’re one of my favorite creators (not the same as YOUR favorite animals), and I love and respect your realness and intelligence ❤
the most polite way of calling coyote peterson out for faking reactions
"Tell us how it feels all along the way."
*It feels like Cyote was overreacting*
You couldn't pay me enough to be stung by a bullet ant. I was stung by a velvet ant 30+ years ago and still remember exactly how much it hurt
So you were like a year old when you got stung? Oh my!
"At least you're just... Several hours away, by boat, from any medical attention... It's perfect timing"
Because the sickest burn doesn't have to be the venom.
I half expected for the video to cut from both of them being calm to doubled over in pain and screaming.
“Depends on where you let it sing you..”
Clint, ever the king of the one liners
Wow! Thank you for the honesty! I hate that coyote 's experience was obviously played off for the camera. I enjoyed this video much more. I had wondered how honest some of those types of videos were and now I know. I love your channel, get to learn something new from you all the time.
Did you know different people have different pain tolerances? Coyotes wasnt played off. And coyote had a whole lot of venom pumped in
@@no-ct8rn Did you know running around these comments excusing "Coyote"'s hamming it up for the cameras is rather pathetic?
@@mattjames257 Its not. You clearly dont know anything and it’s hilarious
@@no-ct8rn no buddy he's right. It is.
@@modest1989 it isnt. You are the pathetic on going around spreading misinformation without valid proof
Jack’s World of Wildlife here on youtube has also taken on the Schmidt pain index, he's taken alot of stings and bites, he's really cool and knowledgable as well and one of the younger wildlife youtubers out there.
Great channel for sure!
Jack's a good friend of mine! Great to see him getting love in the comments on Clint's Reptiles no less!
@@MyWildBackyard man your channel as well 👌 we're blessed with talented and intelligent nature lovers here on youtube.
I absolutely love the docu like style of your videos, keep it up you guys 👌
@@MyWildBackyard you're awesome as well 👍
@@MyWildBackyard you and jack are my newest that I have followed in this genre (few months) and you guys are great.
He did pick a very meaty area to get stung, which is going to hurt a lot less. I got stung by a bullet ant between my toes in Belize and it felt like getting a needle stabed between my toes, followed by what felt like multiple hornet stings all at once. It did creep up slowly, actually left me limping the whole next day, but still nothing like what that Coyote dude pretended.
Jack's World Of Wildlife also got stung but he didn't crawl on the floor screaming
This is definitely making coyote look bad lol
Not really. Pain varies among people.
@@jonmeray713 view counts vary and the more insane he reacts the more attention it gets. Very simple to figure out.
Agreed. It totally makes coyote look like a fake or a giant wimp.
I remember seeing another youtuber that went out and got stung by bullet ants. His comment section was full of kids giving him death threats and saying “this is fake, coyote had a way bigger reaction”.
Yeah, screw guys like him. I want to be educated, not believing in more myths created by overdramatic content creators.
@@Tater_Toot That's not coyote's fault that some of his viewers are utter dicks. Schmidt himself described the pain as brilliantly pure.
"pure, intense, brilliant pain...like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel."
there is a huge amount of variability in what could be different.
I knew Coyote was a fraud, especially after the Sasquatch skull video.
"pure, intense, brilliant pain...like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel" I guess Justin O. Schmidt also was a fraud.
Different people respond different to venoms, and the venom of one group of bullet ants might not be as potent as other groups. The sting on Coyote's video definitely showed a lot more redness and swelling than these stings did.
(3:33) It's kinda cute watching the ant try to bite will and it can't seem to get it's mandibles to snag into his skin
"where should I bite, where should I.. here, here, no here why this surface is so biteable"
It was stinging, not biting. No venom in their bite.
It just goes to show that pain tolerance varies from person to person, with a variety of factors thrown in. I always looked cynically at the people screaming and shaking like an exorcism was being performed, after just a single sting; when there is that tribe that has young boys wear a set of gloves with dozens of ants sewn in, and that is their rite of passage to manhood.
I think you're absolutely right. I rewatched Coyote's video and, everything else aside, the swelling and redness on his arm was significantly worse that that on Will's and Elliot's arms. Individual pain tolerance and physical reactions may vary widely. It's an interesting thing to think about.
@@janisi9262 That's why the original pain index was done by a one guy. Reaction vary so what would be the most objective way to measure how painful multiple stings are? He figured out that testing on just himself as many insects he could was the best he could do at time. Even he accolades that he is just one data point and that's why the pain index has so few levels. It's just general idea this painful to very painful from his point of view.
Yup I think of that all the time when people mention bullet ant bites.
There are a number of genetic and neurological mechanisms that affect pain experience including past instances of severe pain.
Like many other people have said, I think it's a matter of surprise and expectation. I've been stung by fire ants many many times, and I always have stronger reactions when I don't expect the bite. Overall the pain isn't bad.
Something not a lot of people consider is the amount of venom being injected can vary greatly between stings. Would have been interesting to see how much venom was left in the gland after they stung.
The location probably makes a difference, say you got stung in a vein over just muscle
People's bodies also respond drastically different to certain venoms than other people. Wasps have almost no effect on me but scorpions sting immensely. Other members of my family experience the opposite.
So this is to say, don't get stung by a bullet ant. You might get lucky, or it might feel like a bullet.
@@catpoke9557 I'm the same way with wasps. I think they weirdly feel kinda good. Like the pain from eating a really hot pepper. It gives me a little bit of an endorphin rush.
@@catpoke9557 _"Wasps have almost no effect on me but scorpions sting immensely. Other members of my family experience the opposite."_
That could simply be because of what the two previous comments mentioned. I doubt you've been stung enough times for there to be a statistical confidence in the data.
Probability is a strange thing for our minds to grasp, one can be the worst poker player in a tournament (or several) and still win, or they could make really shallow stock market "investments" and make a large profit. They will probably think high of themselves after that, but the probability will eventually, given enough time, blow up in their face. Of course in real life that might never happen, just as it might never happen that you get lucky in the first place, as most simply do not live long enough.
@@YeeLeeHaw I'm not extremely confident in the wasp as I was only stung twice (but they were both in vastly different areas to be fair) but I've been stung a lot by scorpions. I wouldn't use it in a study or anything, mainly due to the lack of control, but as a personal anecdote it's pretty solid.
The odds I was just consistently hit on a vein or nerve, or that they used a high dose of venom, all across different parts of my body and separated between years, AND they failed to ever do any of this to any of my family members... The odds aren't good.
Of course like you said probabilities can be crazy. But given that we already know people's bodies respond differently to venoms (as shown by allergic reactions and local reactions) it's not bad of an assumption that I simply react worse than my family to scorpion stings. For a scientific paper yes it would be bad. But for a simple assumption in daily life, not so much.
Always figured coyote was a but of a exaggerating ham. Not to knock the pain of this ant, but he clearly overreacts and sets up some encounters.
The way he describes the hot poker in no way match the calmness of his voice - deceiving us into believing we too could be this calm getting stung 😳
I accidentally sat on a fire ant home (it was in a crack in the concrete) and got stung by a dozen of them when I was about 10, so I never understood the dramatic reaction of other people. These guys' reactions were definitely more relatable to me. I'd rather people be honest and tell it like it is then to dramatize it for views.
I jumped feet first into a fire ant hill when I was little. Cue pained screams as pre-k age me discovered the error of my ways. I avoid them to this day .
@@jamieblack3235 Yeah, it definitely is an experience that stays with you forever.
Exact same story sitting on the curb in front of my house when I was 6 years old😂 about a dozen welt's on my hand, wrist and forearm!
@@dadgrowscapsaicin4341 Glad I'm not the only one to do so. I had the welts on my legs. 😆
Ex girlfriends mum was preggers, and Laura (under 5 years old) found an old toy in the garden above a red ants nest. Of course she picked it up and played with it, completely disregarding the fact she looked like a walking pile of ants - and walked into the house covered in them - not realising she was mildly allergic (so she was bright pink, and seething with ants). Her mum freaked out and went into labour. 😂
Same family - dad is driving on the A12 and managed to swallow a wasp to which he was allergic - so had to make a 70mph dive for the hard shoulder so the car didn't crash..
My experience was hitting a Hornet at 50mph+ on the screen of the car. You could hear the bang. I backed off to about 15mph and the thing crawled towards the side of the car, gave me a dirty look, and flew off, perfectly fine.
Cara, just be aware that if you haven't been stung since - several envenomations, especially at that age, might have been enough to sensitise you..
Worst bite was a Tegu, inside right knee, bruising so bad I couldn't walk for two days..
Okay, later absense of Eliot in the clip is hillarious XD. Looks like if Will was all OK, but Eliot didn’t make it.
Finally, some reality of "deadly animals"
another issue I have with the usual reports of this sort of thing is, it undermines how dangerous a bite/sting from an *actually* deadly animal is.
I do have to wonder if the quantity of venom was a factor. Also, one factor in the perception of severity is the long duration of pain, which increases in intensity for several hours and can last 24 hours, meaning a bad sting can take you out of comission for a whole day.
The other insect with a level 4 on the sting index is the tarantula hawk wasp, but it gets all its hurt going and over with compressed into about 3-5 minutes. An entomologist that studied them said that once stung, the smartest thing you could do was immediately lie down so you wouldn't fall while thrashing around from the intensity of the pain. Fortunately for people unlucky enough to be at the wrong end of a tarantula hawk, the pain is searing but rapidly subsides, going down to a "normal sting" level of discomfort in just a minute or two. Also fortunate for all of us in the western Americas where tarantula hawk wasps are endemic, they're not at all aggressive, and prefer to save their potent venom for unse on prey unless significantly harassed. In all the times I have encountered them, they've always been far more intrested in exploring holes that might contain spiders than in the big mammal that's minding it's own business, and they basically ignore anything they can't eat and isn't trying to eat them.
As I was watching this a piece of cereal fell on my arm and I had a tiny heart attack
Usually when people do the bullet ant challenge they stick their whole hand in a basket full of bullet ants. I think one ant can't inject enough to really be that bad.
I really do believe people have different physical reactions to different stings. I was mowing my yard and was stung twice by wasps on the back of my ankle and calf and I never in a million years would have expected something like that to be so painful and so damaging. I have permanent scars from them. I was Coyote level for quite some time.
Yes I agree with you, I generally have a high pain tolerance yet had a bad reaction to a standard European hornet sting on my back that hurt relentlessly for a whole night. My friend also had a sting on his arm and for him it subsided rather quickly(2h). My welt was much larger also
@@lunahemera6387 When I was stung in the lower back by a Yellowjacket that had gotten into my sleeping bag, it was like a sudden electric shock of pain for a split second. I reacted fast; grabbed the hornet and threw it toward the door of my tent. The residual pain lasted as a slight burning sensation for maybe fifteen minutes and I had a welt that lasted about a day that I could feel with my fingertips. Pain is *very* subjective for individual people.
I mean, all of the pain index is based around what one person felt. And he described the pain as "pure, intense, brilliant pain... Like walking over flaming charcoal with a three inch nail embedded in your heel".
I really can't believe that a person who's entire thing is rating how bad something hurts, didn't feel that.
Not only that, I think every individual sting is different. Some wasp stings I've had are agony, and others felt like a pin.
Coyote is an actor/entertainer. There are lots of great channels out there that show many of these stings & bites are not nearly as bad as Coyote makes it look.
Glad to see that William & Elliott were brave enough to take one of the worst stings in the world, and had rational reactions to the ordeal. Thanks for the videos as always & keep up the great work!
Did you know different people have different pain tolerances? Coyote peterson has a different one than these guys which shows that he is actually more brave. He’s literally deemed a professional and his videos are to help kids and adults learn. Of course he’s entertaining its because nobody would watch him or like him if he didnt have a personality. Now stop hating 😊
@@no-ct8rn I would honestly rather have Coyote Peterson teach us kids and adults the truth about these animals than exaggerate the truth to get his 20 million subscribers...that's just my opinion though 👍
@@dadgrowscapsaicin4341 He doesnt exaggerate at all. I would be the same way so it’s definitely real and his info is from real bioligist
@@no-ct8rn He actually gets a fair amount of info wrong. It's pretty common for him to misidentify stuff, and some of his videos (namely the centipede and golden orbweaver ones) are so full of errors it's almost laughable.
It's weird that strange wilderness got to talk to the guy who made the pain index even though his reaction was the thickest cut of ham. I would love to see Clint talk to him too.
Years ago, I saw those Coyote videos and kind of believed them. Someone sent me a link about him getting bit by the centipede, and I realized that he looked like he was faking most of the pain. So, I looked back at a few of his other videos and found a lot of his videos to look faked when it comes to the reaction. And, actually, that's how I found your channel. I told the person that sent me the link to Coyote that I didn't believe his reaction so they sent me, "Yeah, I get this, but check out this guy's video about the same centipede. He knows what he's talking about." And they sent me your video rating the desert centipede as a pet. After that, I watched every pet review you've done, subscribed, and have been watching ever since.
I wouldn't do a giant centipede bite. I've heard the initial feeling of the bite compared to having your hand smashed by a ball peen hammer. Plus, they are huge and horrifying. That's probably a whole other level above wasps and ants.
Coyote has a low pain tolerance. Not everyone is the same. His vids are real. 😊
@@no-ct8rn you seem to be the only one in the comments that is defending Coyote 😂 I think you are outnumbered🤣🤣🤣
@@dadgrowscapsaicin4341 Its not about the numbers babe, its about the facts. Yall are so sensitive and need to get your facts right
@@no-ct8rn I used to be a subscriber to his channel and watched his videos even though I thought he played it up for views. But then I saw his video of him getting bit on the thumb by the gila monster and when I watched more closely, realized his thumbs where 3 inches behind his Go-Pro and didn't even show his thumb afterwards which I would have done if it was actually the worst bite I've ever had...(at least that's what it looked like to me) if you have time check it out and tell me what you think??
You might not gone gone viral but you have integrity.
Absolutely crazy. But super rad. You guys are such a true source of good information and craziness! Love the mad scientist approach to this. "It's your experience." Aka I want no claim to your crazy shinanagins
LOL now i'm wondering if Coyote overreacts or he just has a very low pain threshold. I definitely do have a low one, so i'd rather not
my guess is that he overreacts.
He doesn’t overreact. He has a lower pain tolerance, like me, which makes him more brave to be doing this stuff.
@@no-ct8rn proof?
Stings are weird. From what I understand you do not know if you are allergic until after the first sting from a species. So the first sting you would not have an allergic reaction, but the second or third exposure is when the allergic reaction would happen if your body chooses the allergic reaction route.
My sisters are severely allergic to wasp stings, but I always recover quickly after a wasp sting. One of my jobs while working the farm was to "move wasp nests" to keep my family safe. I have been stung dozens of times, they always burn but the pain is not that bad and it's almost always over in 10 minutes.
There must be a lot of factors to determine an individual's reaction to a sting.
Yeah, I hope the guys take that into account for the future.
Maybe having an EpiPen or two on hand as a routine thing would be a good idea? Just in case?
@@kimspurre1242 absolutely. If his future is about being stung, epipens need to be with him at all times
That's not entirely true. You could find out you're an unlucky sod and learn you're deathly allergic to something the very first time you encounter the substance by your body freaking out over it. Your immune system doesn't have have the "pump" primed first at all. That's a myth.
My time in the US Army taught me that arthropod bites and stings do not match what the rumors say. I also learned that OC spray and Carolina Reapers are actually much worse than any bite or sting from a creepy crawler. I'm a connoisseur of spicy foods so the peppers weren't so bad going down, but the indigestion and molten lava shits were horrible. As for the pepper spray, well, that training experience taught me that compliance is the wise choice. It was the first time I had ever experienced shock. I would rather be stabbed again than ever get pepper sprayed again.
Well you are the first big channel I’ve seen that shows these ant stings are not that bad. Some small channels have shown that these guys aren’t too brutal. If they got tribesmen that wear gloves full of HUNDREDS of ants and they don’t show any pain then you can handle one sting lol
There's this one channel that shows it's not bad and makes fun of the screaming. I love him lol!
Edit: The channel is Jack's World of Wildlife for anyone interested! His channel isn't all bites and stings though.
You should try it. I'm sure you too should be able to quietly choke back the pain.
I'm sure the pain is brutal, but these guys are taking it in stride the way most fairly adventurous men would.
@@jfiliss "brutal" may be an overstatement. Giant water beetle bites and black widow bites will both hurt 100s of times worse than any ant sting.
@@ayyyy1493 the difference there is that a spider is a solitary creature. It has only one chance to deliver it's toxin before it's prey scampers off. There can be hundreds if not thousands of ants all gnawing at biting at once. So of course an individual spider bite is going to hurt a lot worse than an individual ant bite. If you wanted to be a bit more realistic with your testing you'd compare a single spider bite to the ant glove test.
I have to admit that while I like Coyote as a person and his videos that focus more on education, I did stop watching a lot of his stuff awhile ago simply because of the over-reliance on false sensationalism in the videos. Maybe that is needed to draw in more people, but I prefer the creatures be depicted as animals first and monsters second.
His overall message is still that these are just animals.
@@DissedRedEngie falls flat when his presentation negates that statement often though
Or monsters never
Now I'm curious about the tarantula hawk. I read an article that recommended just lying on the ground and screaming if you get stung by one. I've run into many of those.
I didn’t even realize this was a clints reptiles video with the thumbnail. I was just going to skip past it until i saw the second post you guys made.
GigaChad levels of stoicism from both men! Although, I'm somewhat alarmed by Elliot's sudden disappearance... 🤔
Some people are all about drama and views. I *LOVE* that I can rely on Clint and the Gang to be honest and upfront while still being entertaining. Actual facts and scientific research/evidence are super important in the world and unfortunately there’s far too much exaggeration and “click baity” drama going down on many channels. I get that people want to be entertained, but these guys are proof that you can give accurate information while being adventurous, daring and funny, too!
Thank you everyone involved in this channel for not being afraid to tell us the truth or to be your nerdy, fun-loving selves! You are appreciated! 🤘🏻☺️💕
I was stung by a bee and that’s enough for me 😂
not going to lie, this makes me loose quite a lot of respect for Coyote. First the bigfoot, and now he was caught red handed with how the Bullet ant sting does not hurt nearly as much as he says. Maybe different pain tolerances but I doubt it.
Not just the bullet ant, I've seen various wasps and the giant centipede done by other people, and always the same story: not pleasant, but nothing like what he made it seem.
@@mortified776 I absolutely believe it. He really does drum it up for views, and here I was in the camp of thinking he is one of the few youtubers who doesn't clickbait.
Pain tolerance definitely differs from person to person, probably even the sting intensity itself differs everytime.
That said, Coyote still is overacting for dramatic effect. 100 percent.
he's a children's youtuber, so it's kind of part of the package. They need to yell every word and overreact to retain attention. It's like trying to compare zoboomafoo to a nature doc.
One of this days he’s got to make a video for ant colonies, would be interesting to see the difference between which species are easier to keep (would be interesting to make a collab with an ant farm channel, maybe AntsCanada as an example).
Supposedly many paper wasps are much worse. Many say Bullet ants are all over the place tho. Maybe locality based? I mean, if Rattlesnakes can be different depending on locale, even tho ants are comparitively simpler I'm sure intensity could be different,maybe even correlating with predator abundance or something. Fun vid! Edit: Also Coyote is great and does a ton of good, but much of how he gets people interested in wildlife is hyperbole lol. Both in reaction and in description.
Clint reminded me of every college professor who ever took me out into the field in this episode. 😂
One thing I was thinking while watching this is the difference of how Will got stung and Coyote did. Coyote practically jams in insect against him before he gets stung, so it might inject more venom into him versus how Will got stung.
Just admit that coyote is an over actor
This is why I watch you over those other youtubers who only care about views not facts and education.
Yeah, as you guys said, surprise is probably a factor... and pain experience. First time I was stun by a wasp as a little kid left way more of an impression on my memory than other experiences since.
I also gotta' imagine getting stun in some places would hurt a lot more than others...
Some people pay other people so they can be stung in "some places". Many of them have inverted pain responses. You probably don't want to go there..
@@rosiehawtrey bro what
@@yossarian00 inverted pain/pleasure response. As Bree says, some places in her and my cases would hurt more than others. If a girl has inverted response... That part, plus wasp venom... Happy squirtyness. And as an advanced grade carpeteer, good evening Bree. I also have dragons - a tegu and Mourning Geckos.. Lil lesbian lizards (I've 6 eggs in the corner of the Viv 😁).
Don't look into angel lust. I mean it.
In other news, LOTR secret diaries...
Look up some of Coyote Peterson's reactions to 2 and 3 level stings and you can see he really reacts pretty strongly. I mean, I do not like being anywhere near a yellowjacket. I think I actually feel a bit more comfortable around Tarantula hawks which are famous for being excruciating for a few minutes, but are not constantly angry insects. But still, yellowjacket stings are just not what he reacts to them as.
Getting stung by a wasp definitely sounds more painful, I must say. Usually they sting me when I'm trying to rescue them from somewhere enclosed too, which also breaks my heart. I was just trying to be nice, but then they were like *stab* :(
Dont take it personally, they have no way of knowing you come to save them and not to eat or crush them, besides insects aren't that intelligent, they act mostly just on instinct. I would never try to rescue a wasp, but that's because I have a phobia of them
@@zakosist I do try to use thick gloves or some cardboard between them and my skin when I can, but sometimes that's no real option. I don't blame them, of course :)
One of those 'bullet ants' (common name for the species Paraponera clavata) was a queen! The slightly smaller one was a worker. A queen ant is recognized by the enlarged thorax, which stores her wing muscles. Queens of most ant species are born with wings, which they only use once in their lifetime during mating flights. Afterwards, the wings are broken off because they are useless. This was probably a freshly mated queen on the lookout to found a new colony 💁🏻♂️
I love how they don't want to hurt the ants even after getting stung
This channel is so great. I was expecting some kind of screaming hissy fit like you'd expect so many UA-camr people to overact and be melodramatic, it's nice to see these lads go at it from a scientific and observational stance. They got balls though, I probably wouldn't have gone for this challenge but now I reckon I could. Course one bullet ant in isolation is a far cry from stumbling into a nest of the things, but you gotta respect it from the stories.
Kudos to you guys that took those stings, and no rolling on the ground screaming.
I knew it was weird how Coyote never swore but kept saying things like "gosh", "darn" and "heck". If you're in that much pain, you're not thinking about you're child audience.
Love the honest reaction. I always thought coyote was going overboard on the initial bites/stings
Mike Tytula went to Costa Rica a few months back with Dayyan and Adam Wicken, and he got stung in the neck by a bullet ant, and he just kind of shrugged it off too.
I'd love to see Coyote interviewed on his experience. It's important to note, that while making fun of Coyote is the popular thing to do, you have Schmidt a scientist that devised the scale, describe it as... "pure, intense, brilliant pain...like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel." You can imagine coyote's reaction then, and maybe schmidt and coyote are both sensitive to the pain causing components of the sting.
I see a lot of people bringing up Jack's reaction to the sting and having zero trouble with it. But it can be just as manipulated as some of you think Coyote's video is. His black widow video is a perfect example, he downplayed the absolute hell out of the black widow bite, and if he had never made the update, we wouldn't have known it was as severe as it was, the same thing with this video. If they hadn't updated us, we wouldn't have known. Pain that is severe enough to stop you from sleeping is at least a 7-8. But his talk about how he had a migraine being worse, doesn't underscore how tolerable the bullet ant sting is IMO, it shows how bad a migraine is. My sister gets them chronically (several a month) and they put her down for days at a time where she'll start throwing up from the pain.
The Satere-Mane tribe put it on for 5-10 minutes that woven glove, and it's their rite of passage to manhood. It can cause the boys to shake uncontrollably for days.
There has to be a difference in the ant that Schmidt or Coyote and these guys got stung. While i don't really like Coyote, i can't imagine he would exaggerate THAT much. Maybe a different kind of bullet ant? Young, old, different stages somehow? On top of the varying human ways of dealing with pain.
@@lowandodor1150 when you see an objective rating from a scientist, and you look at his description of what it felt like, most of coyote's reactions are in line with that level of description. So I don't get how people don't realize this.
@@ExarchGaming i used to believe his reactions were honest and real. But i can't help wondering a little, when i see 2 nerds getting stung by the same ant and not even saying OUCH!
What happened later, okay, but the vast difference in the initial reaction has to be noted. I gave a couple of possible reasons, do none of them make any sense at all?
On the other hand, the way Coyote pressed the ant down and these guys have it just walking on the arm, at first i thought, did they even sting/bite them at all?
@@lowandodor1150 you never know, i mean it is a highly produced series, its not just him, he has a producer, an editor, all that stuff.
I just don't think that one or two (or even 5) people on the internet having a better reaction means anything, the differences in pain tolerance is huge for some people. There is also a question of exact genus, and venom delivery, was the people who felt nothing even given a venomous sting? could they have faked it with a similar looking species that isn't the same? Are there localities that have much more effective venom?
did the sting get in to coyote's bloodstream (IV envenomation) which at least in snakes, causes them to be far more lethal.
There are so many controls to address that I don't think anyone has effectively done.
The one guy I bring up Jack's world of wildlife, is one of the people who taunt coyote constantly.... but as we found out in his black widow video, the dude just has a pain tolerance of a god. (as he described an 8-9 pain) with little reaction.
@@ExarchGaming Uhhh yeah, nahhh, this Jack dude....i've only seen 2 videos of that guy and i can't stand the guy. He comes across as a know it all douchebag, just out to ridicule Coyote.
What about the black widow? He faked that one? Is it worth watching? How do you know, how did you find out?
Well I think it's decided coyote has the pain reflex of a child.
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This makes me think that Coyote is a bit of a drama queen or just a baby. These guys handled it like it was a bee sting
It's good to see that some people realize we all experience pain differently, and our bodies have different reactions to stings & bites. I tend to be more chill when it comes to stings. Last fall I was helping my parents clear out apples that had fallen off their tree, and was stung on the thumb. I don't know what stung me, but my thumb was throbbing most of the night making it very difficult to sleep.
3:03 "Where'd it go" is the most terrifying phrase to hear in a video involving stinging insects.
Thanks for the honesty
I remember when i was in iquitos (peru) some old folks told us the head of this ants were used for healing wounds like scars, they took their head and they use the sting for suture wounds
"Where'd it go?" is absolutely _NOT_ a question you want to ask about a bullet ant.
I'm pretty sure coyote overreacted so no one else would try to hurt or sting themselves with it.
Of course a single sting would not be comparable to stumbling upon a group of ants who all attack.
Been stung by one of these in my travels, with all honesty, it sucked but never got so wild that I doubled over. Now maybe it's my own intolerance but the tarantula hawk (TH) sting I got, (yes both were done on purpose since my last name is the original Danish spelling of Pedersen and wanted to mimic Coyote), but none the less, the TH sting made the bullet ant seem like child's play. I considered going to a 24hr quick care twice that night, just in case, because it hurt that badly. Try that insect sting and let me know if yall agree!!?
This made me read about tarantula hawks and that is a crazy crazy insect. Thanks for that!
@@pol... you're so welcome and yes, insane how they lay an egg inside the tarantula while it's paralyzed then baby sit it they way they do, and man do they pack an insane whollop in their sting
Clint, great vid as always!
Got to remember these are ants. If you step on a nest you're probably going to get more than one.
This reminding me of when fishing garrett got stung bro just casually "i let this lil guy sting me, it hurt for the next 15 hours but it was alright"
If your ants had been in captivity for a while what is the possibility that they had been separated from a dietary or environmental source of the compound necessary for full potency?
As a chronic pain sufferer, I feel like I could take it relatively well, like they did
Right? I feel like a lot would be determined by how accustomed one is to experiencing and coping with pain.
What pain do you suffer? Im sorry man
@@recipoldinasty joint and muscoskeletal pain, migraines and cluster headaches. I have a genetic condition named HSD.
Thank you for your kind words
@@astralb.2647 Ah, the joys of Ehlers Danlos and company. Fibromyalgia, Autism and multiple cancer here - on cancer number 5 - 3G3N breast cancer (went from 22mm to 55mm in a week 🥺) - I have all the nasty genes - after 4 BCC. Thanks to my dad working in agrochem his whole life. He's probably given it to my neices as well but since the lot of them are rabid LGBTphobes and Godbotherers I'm just going to let them find out on their own. I'm tired of being their abuse punching bag.. I don't need that on top of radiation therapy (fibro means chemo is out).
Be aware people - Fibromyalgia has been identified as a autoimmune disease that has the lovely habit of mucking around with your cytokine systems - the chemicals that control tumour detection and control (hence why I've had 4 metastasis of BCC which is *apparently incapable of spreading to the extent its not really a cancer* .
@@rosiehawtrey I have GHSD, Autism and Fibro. I didn't know fibro was identified as being autoimmune, last I checked it was still being researched and uncertain.
I'm sorry to hear about your ongoing battle with cancer. I hope you can beat it again... and get rid of those toxic people in your life.
Clint I did the black widow challenge. Spent all of last week in the hospital
Really be interested in finding out if your friends have had any other encounters with the top rated bites and stings on the other U tube channels. The velvet ant and giant water bug would be the most interesting from the standpoint of both pain level and
likelihood of being encountered! While I haven't experienced the sting from a velvet ant, I have been stung by everything else in the southeastern U.S. with the exception of a true hornet (black with white ring on abdomen) and what we called Japanese hornets (probably cicadia-killers), at one time or another... but the giant water bug
was definitely the most painful bite that I have received, not counting the bite from a 5 and a half foot Eastern Diamondback when in my mid twenties... which was on an entirely different level! Thanks for an amazing channel. Hope you and your family are doing well. Take care.
Interesting! Two of my friends have tried it, said it wasn't the worst. Bullet ant pain a myth?
Those ants were paid actors.
They look like kids holding up their new Christmas presents when the hold up their bullet ants lol.
I’ve been stung by tarantula hawk wasps as well as velvet ants (no bullet ants yet but here’s hoping). It’s painful enough to complain about, but nothing that will make you scream. But my worst non-snake bite ever was from a giant Vietnamese red legged centipede ( scolopendra dehaani) at a reptile show. Seriously if you want a bite that will feel like your blood is replaced with boiling water, that’s the one you want.
Copperhead bites are pretty painful. Like your hands on fire from the inside. After the first night, it feels like an ankle sprain for a month until the swelling goes down.
@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 I took a bite from a coral snake back in 2016 and it hurt like crazy. Supposed to be painless to some but my muscles wouldn’t stop cramping.
@@fishincheap1102 I've always been curious about coral snake bites. What all happened to you?
@@Dee-nonamnamrson8718 I was on a respirator for 14 days. No antivenom was administered. I had some movement troubles for a bit and took just a few days of physical therapy. Bite site looked normal. Not even a scar.
@@fishincheap1102 Dang, I'm glad your OK. I've heard it's really hard to get ahold of coral snake antivenom.
I would also imagine they have such a bad reputation in the wild because if they're anything like the fire ants we have in the US, you're probably rarely getting stung by just one. I know the fire ants will coordinate bites once several are on you, not sure if bullet ants do the same thing, but I imagine not realizing you have half a dozen of them on you and then all of a sudden getting several of those stings would be super unpleasant. Getting stung by one fire ant is unpleasant, but nothing crazy. However when I was kid, I unknowingly stood on an ant bed and ended up with about a dozen stings on my foot and ankle. My leg up to my knee felt like it was on fire and super itchy for a good while, just more venom, more effect I would guess.
brave and crazy :D
Also I really appreciate the honesty and not blowing it out of proportion. I hate the channels where people make a huge deal and its just ridiculous. This is what makes yall great!
I appreciate your approach to the truth way more than I would appreciate the entertainment value of someone writhing around as if they were in pain
Ants actually make pretty cool pets, although i don't own bullet ants, I have quite a few colonies that are going to get started soon, and honestly a video about them from clints reservoir of knowledge would be pretty cool!