A university student stung himself on the
genitals using a bee and it was all in the
name of science.
When Michael Smith started on his journey to
find out the worst place to be stung by a bee
he probably wasn't thinking it would be in his
nostril.
But that's the conclusion he came to after
purposefully barbing himself in numerous
positions on his body, including his genitals.
Surprisingly that wasn't the most
uncomfortable place to be stung, the student
at Cornell University, in New York, said.
'We speculated it probably really would hurt to
get stung in the testicles. Two days later, by
chance, I did get stung there. It didn't hurt as
much as I expected it to,' he told the
Independent .
He chose a total of 25 places to be stung
around his body, with some hard to reach
areas requiring him to get creative.
He added: 'Some locations required the use of
a mirror and an erect posture during stinging
(e.g., the buttocks).'
Mr Smith's study was posted in scientific
journal PeerJ.
