Curious Questions: What is the world’s most painful insect sting – and where would it hurt the most? - Country Life

Curious Questions: What is the world’s most painful insect sting – and where would it hurt the most?

Photo by FLPA/Hugh Lansdown/REX/Shutterstock – Bullet Ant (Paraponera clavata) adult, standing on leaf in rainforest, Tortuguero N.P., Limon Province, Costa Rica

Can you calibrate the intensity of different insect stings? Martin Fone, author of ‘Fifty Curious Questions’, investigates.