Study Finds Honeybee Stingers Keep Pumping Venom After Detachment
Macquarie University researchers used high-speed video of detached honeybee stingers in a skin-like gel to show how their valve-and-piston mechanism continues delivering venom after the bee is gone.
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| Oct 13, 10:05 AM | gizmodo.com | Watch a Bee’s Stinger Keep Pumping Venom After the Bee Is Gone |
| Oct 13, 6:53 AM | insidenova.com | Still stinging? Bee’s stinger pumps venom after bee long gone |
| Oct 13, 6:03 AM | arstechnica.com | Honey bee stingers are double-piston venom pumps |
| Oct 13, 6:03 AM | arstechnica.com | High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom |
| Oct 13, 12:10 AM | theguardian.com | Honeybee's stinger continues to pump venom once detached from body, new footage shows – video |
| Oct 12, 12:00 PM | phys.org | High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers keep pumping venom after detachment |
| Oct 11, 8:00 PM | science.org | Honey bees inject venom with a two-stroke stinger |