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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. The Bee Sting - Wikipedia

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    9780374600303. The Bee Sting is a 2023 novel by Paul Murray, published by Macmillan. The book depicts the dysfunctional, hapless lives of the Barnes family of Ireland, with portions of the book dedicated to the lives of each of the four family members. It was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and won both the An Post Irish Book of the Year ...

  4. Apitoxin - Wikipedia

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    Apitoxin. 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.

  5. Melittin - Wikipedia

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    Melittin is the main compound in bee venom, accounting for the potential lethality of a bee sting, which causes an anaphylactic reaction in some people. [5] At the sites of multiple stings, localized pain, swelling, and skin redness occur, and if bees are swallowed, life-threatening swelling of the throat and respiratory passages may develop.

  6. Stingless bee - Wikipedia

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    Stingless bees (SB), sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (from about 462 to 552 described species), [1] [2] comprising the tribe Meliponini [3] [4] (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors). [5] They belong in the family Apidae ( subfamily Apinae ), and are closely related to common ...

  7. Fear of bees - Wikipedia

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    Fear of bees. The fear of bees, also known as apiophobia, apiphobia, or melissophobia, is a specific phobia triggered by the presence of bees. It is a variation of entomophobia, a fear of insects. The phobia arises primarily from a fear of bee stings. Fear of bees often coincides with a fear of wasps, another stinging insect, and the two are ...

  8. Bienenstich - Wikipedia

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    Bienenstich. Bienenstich ( German pronunciation: [ˈbiːnənˌʃtɪç] ⓘ) or bee sting cake is a German dessert cake made of a sweet yeast dough with a baked-on topping of caramelized almonds and filled with vanilla custard, buttercream or cream. [1] [2] The earliest German and Swiss recipes for the cake date to the beginning of the 20th century.

  9. Stinger - Wikipedia

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    Stinger. Wasp stinger, with droplet of venom. A stinger (or sting) is a sharp organ found in various animals (typically insects and other arthropods) capable of injecting venom, usually by piercing the epidermis of another animal. An insect sting is complicated by its introduction of venom, although not all stings are venomous.

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