Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a serious condition that can occur following wasp and bee stings, often resulting from the toxic effects of the venom. Recent research has focused on understanding the ...

Bee stings are not just a painful inconvenience; they are the result of a highly evolved biological defense mechanism. When a bee stings, it injects venom, which contains a complex mixture of ...

The bee's stinger injects venom into the skin. The venom is what causes the symptoms. A severe life-threatening allergic reaction is called anaphylaxis. The main symptoms are hives with trouble ...

It feels like an electric shock. Most scorpion stings do not need to be seen. The main symptoms are pain, tingling and numbness only in the sting area. Symptoms shouldn't be any worse than a bad bee ...

Please check your automobile's lights monthly. Ask another person to stand in front of and behind your vehicle(s) to ensure ...

Eventually, the leaves close so tightly that they form an airtight seal. Why Don’t the Wasps Sting the Plant to Make an Escape? We know if we closed our hands around a wasp, we would very likely get ...

Sting is calling out sick. The Grammy-winning British singer-songwriter, 73, has been forced to postpone several upcoming concerts after contracting a throat infection, Sting revealed on social ...

An ant that disappears into the forest floor, a bird that demands attention from mates—for these animals, an inky black ...

Swarms of parasitic wasps will descend upon Kona coffee farms this spring as a long-gestating plan to control an invasive ...

Researchers put a sensor at the entrance of beehives to register each time the pollinators entered or exited, and how long ...

Entomologists are gluing tiny QR codes on honey bees to better track the pollinators’ travel habits and life cycles. In doing ...

Several hundred bees in rural Pennsylvania and rural New York are sporting tiny QR codes on their backs to track when they go in and out of their hives. The work, a collaboration among entomologists ...