- [Mark] All right, Coyote.
(breathing heavily) You okay, man?
Your heart racing?
- Million miles a second.
This is the most nervous I've ever been
to take a stinger bite from anything.
My hand is shaking, are you guys all ready?
- [Mark] Oh yeah, I'm ready, if you're ready.
- I'm ready, I'm ready, here we go.
(dramatic music)
I'm Coyote Peterson, and I'm about to enter
the sting zone with the tarantula hawk.
(dramatic music) - Go for it.
- One,
(breathing heavily) two,
here we go, three.
(dramatic music) (yelling)
(breathing heavily)
- [Mark] You all right? (yelling)
- (yelling) Jammin' my arm!
(dramatic music) (yelling)
(breathing heavily)
That is most intense pain I've ever felt!
Don't think I can talk!
(dramatic upbeat music)
(animal roaring) (dramatic upbeat music)
Stings,
(yelling)
stings, (yelling)
and more stings.
Ow! Ow!
So far over the course of filming Breaking Trail,
I've been stung by a giant desert hairy scorpion,
(dramatic music) yep, that one hurt.
Then I was stung around 60 times by harvester ants,
a species that both bites, and stings, and who have
one of the most potent venoms in the insect kingdom.
(dramatic music) (yelling)
There's one on my neck!
Barbie, get the one off my neck!
That one was pretty intense.
Then there were the fire ants.
Hopefully my body reacts okay to the venom,
don't wanna go into anaphylactic shock or anything.
I did okay with the harvester ants, so,
(sighs) think I'm gonna be okay.
I took over 300 stings in less than one minute,
and boy did my hands feel like they were on fire.
Ow, ow, ow!
Oh! (groaning)
(breathing heavily)
Holy cow, that's a lot of stings already!
This is much worse than the harvester ants.
(groaning)
I even tried using my own urine to neutralize the venom.
So what I'm gonna do right now--
- This is so disgusting.
- As gross as it seems, is I'm going to
dump my own urine all over my arms,
and on my hands to try to reduce the swelling,
and the burning from these fire ants stings.
Which helped temporarily, however,
I suffered for nearly a month, as my hands were swollen,
and covered in itch white pustulants.
After the fire ants I told myself, that's far enough.
(groaning)
Ahh!
Until we discovered the velvet ant,
and we all know how that one turned out.
(breathing heavily) - All right, here we go.
- Here we go, ready?
All right, let's do this again,
one more time for good measure.
I'm Coyote Peterson, and I'm about to enter
the sting zone with the cow killer.
Are you ready?
- [Mark] Are you ready?
- (sighs) One,
(breathing heavily) no, I'm never ready,
one,
two,
three.
You good? - Yep.
- Get your shot, I'm gonna place it right down on my arm.
(dramatic music) - Got it.
Here we go.
(breathing heavily) Look, my arm's shaking.
And, go. (dramatic music)
Ow!
(yelling)
(breathing heavily)
Okay, make it back here!
- [Mark] You all right?
What are you feeling?
(yelling)
(breathing heavily)
Oh, wow, ohh, wow!
Oh wow, okay!
(breathing heavily)
Ranked as having the fourth most
painful sting in the insect kingdom,
this wingless wasp put me into a world
of pain for nearly 30 minutes.
Oh my gosh, guys, this is super bad!
(breathing heavily)
One would think I had gone far enough
when it came to experiencing the effects
of the insect sting pain index.
(yelling)
And then I captured a tarantula hawk,
which is ranked as the second most
painful sting on the charts.
In my opinion, stings are the absolute worst,
because they not only hurt,
the also involve venom injection,
which often times has an effect that can last for days.
(yelling)
(breathing heavily)
That is the most intense pain I've ever felt!
Don't think I can talk. (yelling)
(yelling)
(groaning)
So why in the world am I doing this?
That's a great question.
First of all, I'm working my way up the sting ladder,
so that I can be stung by a bullet ant,
which is supposed to be the most painful sting
in the insect kingdom.
However, the real reason, is so that we can
all get a first hand visual, and audible education,
as to what happens if you are stung by some of these
often time misunderstood, and feared animals.
I have a feeling that the bullet ant
is going to be pretty painful,
but before we get there, let's take a look
at how to treat a basic insect sting.
Ahhh! (groans)
That feels good to be outta that hot sun.
(breaths heavily) My arm!
- [Mark] You all right?
- Yeah, well, my favorite part of any
bite or sting episode, is to show you guys
how to clean up the aftermath.
I'm gonna try na best, I'm gonna try my best,
to get through this, I'm feelin' pretty out of it
at the moment, as you can see, my arm is pretty swollen,
and red, and this is the sting zone right there,
and right there is where the stinger
actually inserted into my arm.
I don't know if you can see that,
but it is incredibly sore, and tender.
Now, I would say it's fair to say that
I went through at least five minutes of extreme pain.
(yelling)
(breathing heavily)
(groaning)
(yelling)
Ohh,
wow!
Then I kinda snapped back into it,
was able to give you guys the outro,
and now I'm just feeling lethargic,
almost feel like I have a temperature,
and my body feels sluggish.
Do I sound like I'm talking funny?
- [Mark] No you sound fine.
- My mouth feels, I think just dry,
I think there's a lot of adrenaline, a lot of heat,
and any time you are bitten or stung by any animal,
I always recommend that you seek
professional medical opinion first and foremost,
but there are a couple of few basic
things that you can do up front.
There are no noted cases of a tarantula hawk
ever giving a fatal sting to a human,
so I'm gonna treat this today
just like it was a normal bee sting.
First thing we wanna do, is clean up
the site of the sting with an alcohol pad.
- [Mark] And why do we do that?
- That is just to remove any of the germs,
or any of the bacteria that may have come from the stinger,
and the alcohol will actually help to neutralize the venom.
Ahh, that's cold.
My arm is actually hot to the touch,
Mark, stick your hand out there,
and tell everybody, does that feel hot?
- Oh yeah, super, compared to like here, to here, yeah,
you can definitely feel it. - Yeah.
Isn't that crazy?
- Yeah. - Oh yeah, that's good.
- [Mark] So what does it feel like right now,
like tell us like, compared to,
obviously when you were stung it feels really bad,
but now what's it like?
- At this point, my arm feels really heavy,
it hurts when I squeeze my hand to try to make a fist,
look at that when I do that, you can see,
it almost just looks like a bunch of
liquid underneath the skin there.
- [Mark] All that from one sting.
- [Coyote] (breaths heavily) One sting, yeah.
I now understand why the tarantua hawk
is so far up there on the sting pain index.
- [Mark] Yeah you could, you don't have
reactions to stings like this.
- No, I mean, with the velvet ant,
and there were just a couple of small little welts
that formed, and they actually went away pretty quickly.
Now that was a couple days ago,
and we gave my arm a chance to rest before we
got restung by the tarantula hawk.
This is definitely the worst sting I have ever taken.
So after you sanitize the wound,
then you want to treat the site for any potential infection,
and as we all know, I always go to Neosporin for that one.
So let me just get a little bit of Neosporin
on the site of the actual sting.
Okay, now at some point, this is probably
going to become pretty itchy,
and if you've ever been stung by a bee,
or hornet, or a wasp, you know that eventually
you'll get a welt, and that will itch,
just like a mosquito bite, and it really itches!
And I really shouldn't itch it,
but ahh, that feels so good!
So what I have here is Hydrocortisone,
this is excellent for insect stings,
and I'm going to apply some of that
to the sting area as well.
Look at that, plus 12 moisturizers.
Good for thing for me!
Now I'm gonna get some moisturizing on my skin!
Okay, you ready?
Here we go.
- [Mark] Kinda looks like toothpaste.
- It does a little bit, and (sniffing)
doesn't really smell like much,
maybe just basic hand lotion.
Ahh, yeah, that feels nice and cool on my arm.
(laughs) Ahh, that is exactly what I needed right now!
Wow, you can really feel how hot this sting is
underneath this cream, and the cream is cool,
which feels great on the sting.
Now last thing we're gonna use here,
is a basic cold compress, just like you would get
from the doctors office, and what I'm gonna do
is crush this up, drop it on the ground,
and then it's gonna get cold,
I'm gonna place it on the sting,
and it's going to feel excellent.
You ready?
All right.
Crack this guy up,
and just do this.
It'll take a couple seconds for it to get cold.
(laughs) Oh this is gonna be great!
Okay, here we go, it's gettin' cold.
All right, now (groans)
ideally, you'd wanna have a comfortable chair to sit in,
lay back, relax, watch some TV,
(sighs) and just apply that cold compress
to the area of the sting.
Ohhh, that may be the best feeling I have had all day.
- [Mark] So, Coyote, tell us,
what was worse, the anticipation
of being stung by the tarantula hawk,
or the actual sting itself?
Oh, that's kind of a loaded question.
Both were bad.
I think the anticipation is the most fear
I have ever had before taking
one of these bites or stings,
my hand was shaking, my leg was shaking,
I think it was probably pretty obvious
on camera that I was really nervous.
And then of course once the sting happened,
it's almost like I blacked out for a second.
I remember the sting happening,
I remember the intense pain,
I remember thinking, get the glass enclosure
on top of the tarantula hawk so it doesn't get away,
and the next thing I remember is laying
face down in the sand, trying to just,
absorb the amount of pain that was radiating through my arm.
Wow. - I think that was
the most impressive thing to me,
was the fact that you were able to
consciously take the glass and put it back on
the tarantula hawk. - (laughing) Yeah!
- Let's take that, let's take a look at that one more time.
- Yeah, one more time of me actually
getting the glass back on top of the tarantula hawk.
That was, I don't know how I managed to do that,
but, and what was great about that
is that then we have the tarantula hawk
for the end of the scene, and we got that great release
when it flew away on GoPro, a cool shot.
And I love always being able to show you guys
the release of the animal at the end of an episode,
and the one thing that I have to remind
everybody out there in the Coyote pack who's watching,
never attempt to replicate anything that you see me do
on these episodes of Breaking Trail.
I've been stung by harvester ants, stung by fire ants,
scorpions, the velvet ant, and now the tarantula hawk.
And it's bad, it's painful, and the reason that I do this
is so you can see it first hand,
and you get an education about these animals
that a lot of us fear, but then you also
walk away from the episode and you say to yourself, wow,
that really looked bad, I'm going to admire
these animals from a distance,
I'm gonna let Coyote take the bites and the stings,
and I'm gonna watch the episodes.
That, guys, that is what would make me happy.
I would definitely say, that in my quest to find
the most painful insect bite or sting,
I've worked my way up the ladder,
going from the velvet ant, to the tarantula hawk,
and we know what's next guys, the bullet ant.
And I think everyone out there in the Coyote pack has been
waiting long enough in anticipation for that episode.
Stay tuned, because I promise you, it's comin' out soon.
I'm Coyote Peterson, be brave!
Stay wild, we'll see you on the next adventure.
As for me, I'm gonna sit over here in the shade,
and enjoy this cold compress.
Ahh! What a morning.
(upbeat music)
Did you see the entire tarantula hawk episode?
If not, make sure to go back and watch
my most extreme sting to date
as I work my way up to the bullet ant challenge.
And don't forget, subscribe, so you can join me and the crew
on this season of Breaking Trail.
(upbeat music)
Are you guys ready?
- [Mark] Let's go for it.
- One,
(breaths heavily) two,
here we go, three.
(dramatic music)
(birds chirping)