Starr sting pain scale

Starr sting pain scale

Starr sting pain scale or "A Pain Scale for Bee, Wasp, and Ant Stings" was created by the entomologist Christopher Starr as a scale to compare the overall pain of Hymenopteran stings on a four-point scale cite journal | author = Starr, C.K. | year = 1985 | title = A simple pain scale for field comparison of Hymenopteran stings | journal = Journal of Entomological Science | volume = 20 | issue = 2 | pages = 225-231] cite book|author=E. Hoyt, T. Schultz| title=Insect Lives, Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World |year=2002|url=http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/HOYINX.html?show=contents] .

Scale

References

* Evans, David L. "Insect Defenses: Adaptive Mechanisms and Strategies of Prey and Predators", [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0887068960&id=jpxkhS7O0p0C&num=30&pg=PA393&lpg=PA393&dq=%22schmidt,+justin%22&vq=schmidt&sig=F0LL8M4ZolVn5zoy4fwqLxXuvVY Table 14.1] , 1990. ISBN 0-88706-896-0
* Tom Turpin On Six Legs " [http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/agcom/newscolumns/archives/OSL/2004/January/040108OSL.htm Insects Bite and Sting for Good Reasons] "
* David B. Williams DesertUSA " [http://www.desertusa.com/mag01/sep/papr/thawk.html Tarantula Hawks] "

Notes

See also

* Schmidt Sting Pain Index by Justin O. Schmidt
* Scoville scale to measure the hotness of a chili pepper
* Dol scale to measure pain
* Irukandji syndrome a jellyfish sting induced condition
* Pain scale


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