Bees Bite as well as Sting

[Dunbarrover]

Interesting research paper on the ability of bees to bite pests they cant sting (wax moth/varroa), injecting them with an anaesthetic to paralyse them for minutes.

Dont have enough post to include a link, but its on the vita-europe.com website under

"secrets-of-the-honeybee-bite-revealed"

 

[greengumbo]

http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0047432

 

[itma]

Vita has now filed a patent on the potential use of 2-heptanone as a local anaesthetic (International Patent Application number: PCT/GB2012/050157).

Nice one!