13 Insects in the Southwest That Send People to the ER Every Summer

Stinging insects account for something on the order of 220,000 emergency department visits a year in the United States, and roughly seventy-two deaths — eighty-four percent of them men, almost all between June and September. Thirteen entries ranked by one measure: summer medical volume in this region, weighted by how badly it goes wrong. Two of the most painful insects on Earth live here and neither made the list. Something with a harmless-sounding name sits in the top three. And the pattern at the top isn't venom. It's plumbing. Sources https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/insects/ https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/19/11/13... https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6... https://extension.arizona.edu/insects