A large reddish-black bullet ant with a visible stinger on a tree trunk base beside a woven leaf glove and a pain scale gauge at maximum on a light gray background.

The Most Painful Sting on Earth — How Well Do You Know Bullet Ants?

Ants & Termites

Difficulty

Hard

Questions

25

Volts

3/q

A sting compared to a gunshot, a pain that lasts a full day, and a warrior ritual that requires wearing eighty of them in a glove. Bullet ants top the Schmidt pain index and carry a neurotoxin scientists are still studying. This quiz bites back.

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