According to the “pain scale” rating of researcher J.O. Schmidt, the sting of a southern paper wasp feels like “spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.”… Read More
Dr. Thomas Muffett (1533 - 1604) was an English doctor and also an entomologist. He believed spiders had great medicinal properties. His daughter, Patience, is commemorated in the Little Miss Muffet nursery rhyme. Dr. Muffet believed milk was unhealthful, but evidently curds and whey were OK.