How worker bees protect themselves from their own venomHoneybee venom is a potent toxin.Stings cause pain, trigger a racing heart, and sometimes result in life-threatening allergic reactions.But Dalibor Kodrk from the Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, explains that we, and other mammals, were not the original target.Honeybees probably evolved their sting to incapacitate insect predators and other bees, long before birds and mammals dominated the planet.The main component
