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  2. Bee sting - Wikipedia

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    A bee sting is the wound and pain caused by the stinger of a female bee puncturing skin. Bee stings differ from insect bites, with the venom of stinging insects having considerable chemical variation. The reaction of a person to a bee sting may vary according to the bee species. While bee stinger venom is slightly acidic and causes only mild ...

  3. Bees and toxic chemicals - Wikipedia

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    The introduction of certain chemical substances—such as ethanol or pesticides or defensive toxic biochemicals produced by plants—to a bee's environment can cause the bee to display abnormal or unusual behavior and disorientation. In sufficient quantities, such chemicals can poison and even kill the bee. The effects of alcohol on bees have ...

  4. Severe reaction to a bee sting as a child signals how ... - AOL

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    Severe reaction to a bee sting as a child signals how concerned you need to be as an adult. When bees sting, they inject a venom that’s mostly water. This allows easy dispersal of the venom ...

  5. Apitoxin - Wikipedia

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    Apitoxin or bee venom is the venom produced by the honey bee. It is a cytotoxic and hemotoxic bitter colorless liquid containing proteins , which may produce local inflammation . It may have similarities to sea nettle toxin .

  6. Insects on vacation: How to spot them and how to avoid them - AOL

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    Keep a clean apartment. If you're in a vacation rental, make sure you keep the place tidy, especially the kitchen. On a recent visit to Santiago, Chile, during the middle of the summer, I found ...

  7. Ant venom - Wikipedia

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    Ant venom. Ant venom. Sterile pustules 3 days after fire ant stings. Specialty. Emergency medicine. Ant venom is any of, or a mixture of, irritants and toxins inflicted by ants. Most ants spray or inject a venom, the main constituent of which is formic acid only in the case of subfamily Formicinae .

  8. Woman survives 1,000 stings from 'killer' bees - AOL

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    A California woman stung more than 1,000 times by a swarm of bees is expected to be okay. Firefighters say the unidentified 71-year-old woman was a covered in a 'suit of bees' when they arrived on ...

  9. Characteristics of common wasps and bees - Wikipedia

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    Dusty yellow to dark brown or black. Black and opaque bright yellow stripes. Black and ivory white markings. Black and dark body with yellow [ b] Black and orange or yellow markings. Coat. Furry (short hair) Furry (long hair) Little or no hair.