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World-renowned entomologist Dr. Justin O. Schmidt recently passed away from Parkinson’s disease. Throughout his life, Dr. Schmidt let himself be stung about 1,000 times by some 150 insect species. He even created the Justin O. Schmidt Pain Index, comically rating and describing the intensity of insect stings. For example: At Pain Level 1 is the sweat bee, whose sting he described as “light, ephemeral, almost fruity … a tiny spark.” And at Pain Level 4 is the bullet ant, whose sting he called “pu