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(suspense music)
They're so fast.
One. Two.
Three.
Argh!
First sting right underneath the fingernail!
(dramatic sting)
We all know that when Coyote Peterson shows up
with his little red container, and a pair of forceps,
a sting is likely close to follow.
Today I'm in Australia.
And right in front of me there
is a very unassuming pile of dirt.
It is the mound of the bulldog ant.
And we're gonna try two things today.
A single sting so that I can rank this insect
on the insect sting pain index.
I've never been stung by it before.
And it's only fair to test a single sting
before we bring on the big game.
The big game is me putting myself into the position
of a gardener who's disturbed a mound of these fiery ants.
I'm going to catch many of them,
quite possibly hundreds of them,
inside of the same box that we debuted
in the angry yellowjacket box episode.
Now my hand's gonna go in the box.
And we're gonna find out just how bad the magnitude
of stings from this insect really can be.
Now to do a single sting, all we need is a single ant.
And to catch one shouldn't be too difficult.
Watch this.
All I gotta do is put this little cup down like this.
There we go.
It was that easy.
Getting one to jump inside of the container.
Now this is what I would call a medium sized ant.
Not nearly as big as a bullet ant,
but the rumor is its sting is quite possibly as bad.
Today we're gonna find out just how bad it really is.
Now the bulldog ant, commonly known as the bull ant,
or as many people call it, the jumping jack ant,
is famous because of their ability to jump.
(tense music)
Here we go.
Now my heart rate's starting to go.
No no no!
Oh no! You're jumping away!
Nope, stay over here.
Jump into the cup.
Okay, it's just on my hand.
I'm Coyote Peterson.
And I'm about to enter the sting zone with the bulldog ant.
Oh yeah.
All right, you got the shot there?
You did?
Oh yeah.
Ow!
Owie owie owie owie ow!
He's still jumping around.
Come here, buddy.
Gotta get you back into the container.
All right, come here come here come here.
Don't sting my hand too.
Here you go.
Woo!
Okay.
Yep.
Starts off strangely as just a little bit of a tingle.
Not really that painful, but it is beginning to increase.
At this point, nowhere close to a bullet ant.
I would probably say it's about a two.
And we're only 15 seconds in.
Let me see if this is gonna get worse.
Okay.
If this is as bad as it's gonna get
at this point I'm calling it a two.
And now, the reason you guys
all really clicked on this video.
Trent, the box please.
(chuckles)
I think you guys recognize this contraption.
It's the same box we used when I put my hand
in there with 200 angry yellowjackets.
The next part of this episode has me
putting myself into a worst case scenario.
Imagine that you're a gardener
out there digging around in the garden
when you don't realize that you have disturbed
an entire mound of bulldog ants.
When those ants spill out, and they're angry,
boy do they sting in mass.
Now the goal is to catch several
hundred of them inside this box.
Okay.
I'm gonna go for that.
Once they're in the box, my hand also goes into the box.
I think we all know what's gonna happen at that point.
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(synth music)
(sighs)
Okay, here we go.
Putting my hand into a box of bulldog ants.
A single sting ranked as a two.
My arm is red.
It's beginning to itch just a little bit.
I can't even imagine what a magnitude
of stings is going to feel like.
The next step is to get my hand inside of the cloth.
I'm gonna use these two rubber bands
to secure the cloth so that the ants
don't just get out and run all over the place.
But I have a feeling that once my hand goes in there
they're going to attack, they're gonna latch on,
they're gonna bite with those mandibles,
and then they're gonna sting.
The stinger will likely get stuck in my arm.
Now they're not gonna lose their stinger,
but they'll keep it there and pump
venom load after venom load.
Okay, here we go.
I'm gonna take off these bracelets.
I'm gonna take off my wristband.
(tense music)
I'm Coyote Peterson.
And I'm about to enter the ultimate
sting zone with the bulldog ant.
One.
Two.
Three.
Ants are on me.
Investigating.
Getting bitten.
Argh, first sting right underneath the fingernail!
All right, now they're starting
to realize that there is an invader.
Ow! Stung in the palm of my hand!
Holy mackerel, holy mackerel.
Aye yi yi yi, wow these stings are feeling worse
than what was happening on just my forearm.
(muffled screaming)
Some of the ants are starting to get out.
Hold on, let me just.
You guys can't leave yet.
Don't leave yet.
Ow! Ow!
Grrr!
Can you gotta see my wrist swelling up?
Argh!
Now they're kind of getting all over me at this point.
Let me turn around like that.
Ow!
(heavy grunting)
Okay, now I got several ants on me in several places.
The ones on my wrist are the ones that hurt the most,
but strangely enough not all of the ants are attacking.
You can see that the container is starting to fog up
and that's because my hand is beginning to sweat big time.
I'm in a lot of pain at this point.
(heavy grunting)
And strangely enough, a lot of the ants
are really recognizing that there's an escape route now.
So I think they're more interested
in getting away necessarily than they are attacking,
but a number of them have definitely taken to my hand
and said oh yeah, this is the hand that abducted us.
Ow! There's some on my legs too!
Oh there's ants all over the deck at this point.
They must be escaping out of the bottom.
Okay.
(pained grunts)
The thing I'm gonna try to do is take this off.
Ow!
I'm gonna take this off at this point and wait.
That's maybe a bad idea.
I don't know what to do!
I don't know how to get my hand out of there!
Okay, I'm gonna pull it out slowly,
but the ants are gonna come out.
Okay, I think I gotta give in.
Argh!
I don't know what to do!
I'm panicking!
I'm just gonna pull my hand back through here
gently as I can so I don't hurt any of the ants.
Even though they're just gonna kind of slide off.
I didn't really think about that.
Argh, it's getting worse!
I just gotta get this thing off.
I gotta get this thing off.
Argh-ha-ha-ha!
I'm gonna try to crinkle this up so more ants don't escape.
I still have several of them on my hand.
Oh God, this is really bad.
Try to get a couple shots of them in my hand.
I gotta get them off.
Argh!
Holding still for these tight shots is...
Tell me when you guys are done.
(indistinct)
- [Trent] Um, hang on a second.
(Coyote muffled screams)
- Okay, off off off off off.
Off, off, off, off.
Come on, off, off.
(pained grunts)
Holy mackerel, okay.
Two times a lot.
If I rank this as a two with a single sting,
man my hand is absolutely throbbing right now.
Ooh it's building.
Argh!
(heavy breathing)
The pain is not nearly as bad as the yellowjackets.
The yellowjacket initial impact was way more extreme
than the bulldog ants, but strangely enough
the mandibles once they locked in place hurt as well.
Okay.
Holy cow. All right.
This is definitely more painful than fire ants.
Definitely more painful than harvester ants.
I would say at this point I am crescendoing
up near bullet ant level of pain.
Hold on, I gotta get up and walk around for a second.
I'm just gonna cut this camera.
(muffled scream)
I'm trying to hold my composure
to not have as much dramatics,
but it is really, really, really bad.
And about a minute and a half
to two minutes in it starts to build more so.
Oh look, my hand is...
Oh wait, I think it's turning purple.
'cause I have these rubber bands on me still.
Ow!
The ones on the back of my wrist
right there are honestly the worst.
Very sensitive skin there.
All here on my fingers.
And in about a minute and a half to two minutes
the welts are gonna start to form.
(tense music)
My hand is turning purple.
Does anybody else see this?
My hand is turning purple.
I can't really move my fingers.
Now look at this one right here, dude.
This is the first one that got me on the palm of my hand.
Argh!
Look at the tips of my fingers.
How strange is that?
Look at all this blotching that's forming.
Wow, we have never seen a reaction like this before.
Regret level, as compared to the yellowjackets?
Not nearly as bad.
Worse than a single sting?
Unquestionably.
All right, let's go back over there.
Jiminy crickets!
Ants all over the place.
It's really really painful.
The pain is more intense minutes after
than it is on the initial sting.
The initial sting almost feels, if you can describe, sweet.
You can feel it happening,
but you're almost kind of giggly a little bit.
It's kinda like ha ha, ha, oh it tickles just a little bit.
And then it starts to burn.
And right now my hand feels like
it's in a state of paralysis.
It's throbbing.
I'm having trouble moving my fingers.
There is discoloration happening in my hand.
So.
The stings here.
And in the backside of my wrist.
I think are probably the most painful.
And here's what's interesting.
I saw a variation between putting my hand into a box
of bullet ants in which I was stung zero times.
I put my hand into a box of yellowjackets
and was stung over a hundred times.
But these ants.
Some attacked and some were more interested in escaping.
My hand, it actually feels really cold now.
Oh man.
And what's unique is that when these insects sting,
they insert the stinger and they leave it in.
They don't lose the stinger, but they keep pumping venom.
So in each individual sting
I got more than your average yield.
So if you were to get stung by one of these ants,
all you need to do is flick it off.
Get yourself away from the danger zone.
So if you're out there working in your garden,
remember, when we showed you the opening
to the original nest where we pulled
the single ant from, it was barely noticeable
that there were ants there until we disturbed the nest.
So if you're out there digging and you unearth
a mound of these and find yourself covered,
brush them off, get yourself away from the nest,
and you're probably going to be just fine.
Now the sting from this ant is not likely
to cause any serious medical reaction.
It's gonna hurt. It's gonna swell up.
Unless your body is going into
some sort of allergic reaction.
Your throat is swelling up, you're feeling super dizzy,
you're vomiting, or you're recognizing your body
is having an adverse reaction beyond just pain,
get yourself to a medical establishment
as quickly as possible.
Don't drive yourself, have somebody else take you,
but the chances are you're going to be absolutely just fine.
It is a painful sting, but I would say
if you were stung this many times by bullet ants,
it would be far worse than taking on
the onslaught of the bulldog ant.
So there you have it.
Another sting box episode.
My hand is in pain.
I'm ready to call it a day, but a big thank you
to The Ants: Underground Kingdom
for sponsoring this episode.
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I'm Coyote Peterson.
Be brave.
Stay wild.
We'll see you on the next adventure.
I need an ice cream cone.
(synth music)
(animal calls)
(birds chirping)