- I'm Coyote Peterson
and I'm about to enter the sting zone
with the executioner wasp.
Here we go.
(tense music)
(screaming)
- [Camera Man] Tell me what you're feeling.
I know it's hard --
Oh my gosh, it's bleeding.
(whimpering)
(bang)
(fast paced jungle music)
(lion roaring)
(gentle music)
Alright Coyote, it's been about
an hour and a half since you were stung
by the executioner wasp,
tell us how it is right now.
- Has it really been that long?
- [Camera Man] Oh yeah.
(groaning)
You lay down right here on the tile
for like 40 minutes.
(breathing)
- My whole arm is on fire and like --
All up and down like in my joint right there.
Man, what a wallop.
I barely even remember the walk back
but it was arduous to say the least.
My arm is just like screaming in pain still.
It's --
- [Camera Man] Your face is swollen,
around your eyes.
- You know how it was like the sort of intense pain.
I almost cried, I think I almost cried
like within the first couple of minutes
of the sting, it was that bad.
(deep breathing)
(groaning)
Oh my God that hurts.
So let me try to explain to you guys
what's going on with my arm right now.
So, my hand feels really hot
and it's kind of tough to squeeze my hand.
The actual sting zone, which is right here,
is incredibly sensitive to the touch,
like you just push on it a little bit
and it feels like a really really deep bruise,
so that was the venom attacking my cells.
There's the actual spot where the stinger went in,
you see that little red mark.
- [Camera Man] Zoom in there.
- And like most wasp species, they don't
lose their stinger, so the stinger is back in the animal.
And look here, just like my veins in this area
are also very very tight.
Look, it almost looks like there's
a broken blood vessel.
- [Camera Man] It's like a secondary swelling.
- Yeah like right there and it was like
the venom immediately got to about there on my arm.
Hey Mario, would you do me a favor?
Would you grab my bag?
I'm going to put some Sting-Kill on my arm
just to see if that helps with the burning at all
'cause it's like --
Oh man, it's like super warm on my face.
I'm going to try get some Sting-Kill
on my arm here, see if that helps with the burning.
Gonna just go ahead and bypass the sting wipes
and go straight for the capsule for relief at this point.
- [Camera Man] So, can you walk us through
what you can remember?
Like right after the sting.
- Um, yeah, I mean, it hit me like
the tarantula hawk sting, where I described
it as being like electrical current,
almost like if you've been --
You know, you rub your socks on the ground
in the winter and then you touch somebody
and it's a really --
Boom, like electrical shock.
That's what the sting felt like initially
then the onset burning, I think
I described it as feeling like your skin
getting pealed off of your body.
So where the warrior wasp felt like
pins and needles, and the bullet ant
felt like somebody taking a hot poker
and sticking it into your arm,
this is like flesh pealed back.
No I don't know what it feels like
to have flesh pealed back but I can imagine
that this is what it is.
It's muddy down there.
Get that crushed up, there we go, Sting-Kill.
Can you go up against the executioner wasp?
Gonna find out.
- [Camera Man] Here, point it at me.
- Ow.
(tense music)
Ow.
Man, ow, oh.
Man my skin is just like burning.
That's obviously not providing much
relief to be honest with you.
It just hurts to touch the skin on my arm.
I'm going to not even do that.
- [Camera Man] Feel cool to your skin?
- No, arm is burning.
Actually the skin is super sensitive.
- [Camera Man] Describe what the stinger looked like.
I mean, it took a few pokes, if you will,
for it to actually give you a sting.
- Yeah it was feeling around and then
it got really angry and fluttered it's wings
and got it's abdomen curled underneath and just --
I couldn't see it.
I don't know if you guys actually
caught it on camera or not.
I could just feel it like a hot
hyper dermic needle pierced under my skin.
It was interesting that it went in an angle
not so much straight down.
When the bullet ant stung me
you know the stinger went in and then
it kind of got itself stuck.
It spun around in a circle and then let go
but this was at an angle
and I don't know if that has something
to do with how much my skin hurts
around this area right here but man it's just intense.
I feel super out of it.
You know when you can feel like a fever coming on
and your body's real weak and if you try
to walk up like the flight of stairs
in your house, your legs aren't like giving
you all of their oomph.
That's how my whole body feels right now
it feels very drained and that's probably
because it's my adrenaline and my body
fighting off the venom.
You know all of the blood cells
around there are being attacked
so it's my body trying to centralize
the venom and fight it off and dilute it
and I just feel really out of it
and really weak right now.
Really weak and my hand, it's tough to make a fist.
I have a lot of pain right here
at the joint of my elbow and just my forearm
is just in searing pain right now.
- [Camera Man] As far as your curiosity goes
like are you going to continue to
see if there's anything more painful out there?
Where does this go?
- I mean, the fact that the warrior wasp
did not top the bullet ant, I was kind of like
is the sequel ever as good as the original?
But in a trilogy, is the third one better than the first?
I mean, I don't know, we'll see
what this cuts into but yeah, for me personally
and the experience I've gone through,
this pain has been the most intense
and I'm still going through it right now.
It's been an hour and 45 minutes since the sting
and it is excruciating.
And we have a new top 5 now in the insect
sting pain index and for me it goes like this.
Velvet ant.
Warrior wasp.
Tarantula hawk.
Bullet ant.
And last, certainly not least, it is fair to say
that we should all bend the knee
because there is a new king on the throne
and that king is called the executioner wasp.
(sigh)
My arm hurts so bad right now
the only thing I want to do is go in
lay in the air conditioning
and get a cold bottle of water.
- [Camera Man] I gotta remind you of something.
- Yeah.
- [Camera Man] You know Michael Jordan
came out of retirement once but he also
came out of retirement twice.
Is there a chance you'll come out again?
- I don't know guys, I think I'm done
when it comes to stings.
The executioner wasp is king.
All hail the new king
and yeah, I've learned a lot and I think
there has to be an end to the journey
and for me, at least at this point,
I think it's safe to say that
the executioner wasp is the top.
It is the king.
I'm Coyote Peterson.
Be brave, stay wild.
We'll see you on the next location.
(laughing)
My arm hurts.
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(screaming)
You little devil.
Oh the executioner lives up to it's names.
(various animal calls)