Ask Adventure Network. Avoidance and first aid tips. Insects are their primary source of food.
Most victims report no more pain than that inflicted by a irritated honeybee.
An attack of the species Centruroides may be different. In North America only the Centruroides is a known killer of humans. Their pincers are long and slender as opposed to bulky and lobster-like. The sting, immediately and exquisitely painful, is increased by a light tap on the site. Deaths have almost exclusively been in small children, the elderly, and the severely allergic.