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High-speed video shows how honey bee stingers pump venom
Original: High-speed video reveals how honey bee stingers pump venom
Researchers have used high-speed video to reveal the mechanics of honey bee stings, showing that the stinger works as a double-piston venom pump. The footage captures how the barbed stinger alternately slides to drive venom into a target, offering a detailed look at a mechanism previously understood only in outline. Readers online are sharing the study, with many intrigued by the unexpected engineering in such a small structure.
Why now: The striking slow-motion footage of a familiar insect's surprising mechanism has drawn wide attention
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