Apitoxin is a venom found in which type of insect?

Apitoxin, or honey bee venom, is a bitter colourless liquid. Its active portion a mixture of proteins, which causes local inflammation and acts as an anticoagulant. A honeybee can inject 0.1 mg of venom via its stinger.

A honey bee (or honeybee) is any bee member of the genus Apis, primarily distinguished by the production and storage of honey and the construction of perennial, colonial nests from wax. The best known honey bee is the Western honey bee which has been domesticated for honey production and crop pollination. Honey bees represent only a small fraction of the roughly 20,000 known species of bees. Some other types of related bees produce and store honey, including the stingless honey bees, but only members of the genus Apis are true honey bees. The study of bees including honey bees is known as melittology.

Bee venom therapy, or apitherapy, uses the stings of live bees to relieve symptoms of MS such as pain, loss of coordination, and muscle weakness. Apitherapy researchers suggest that certain compounds in bee venom, namely melittin and adolapin, help reduce inflammation and pain.

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Chris Braid

Took a punt based on an idea that bees live n an apiary! 😁

janellejaworski

Uh oh don’t look at the bees, don’t look at the bees. 🎶 don’t look at the bees then they won’t look at you, don’t look at the bees then they won’t look at ahh they look at me🎶.

catmom

I knew it was bees bc when we Mom was young she was allergic to a bee sting that she got.

earlepg

Howard Groopman, Just don't try sittin' on 'em.

Howard Groopman

earlepg, Well, aren't you the bee's knees? :)

Char

Rob Orr, you haven't seen them find look it over and taste things in research lol

earlepg

Howard Groopman, That was what led me to the bees.

Howard Groopman

Piece of cake if you know what an apiary is.

Joe Mangan

Chris Braid, once acting as quizmaster, I asked a fellow, what lives in an apiary. He answered apes.

Jerry Edwards

Chris Braid, Same here.

June

I had my first ever bee sting last year, well 2 stings on my inner wrist, when I disturbed a small nest whilst cutting grass. My arm swelled up to twice its normal size, painful!

Rita Colette Flaherty

Kathryn Cavanagh, my arthritis disappeared after a bee sting,,,Rita.Flaherty

Rob Orr

"Apitoxin, or honey bee venom, is a bitter colourless liquid" - I want to know who tasted it to find out it was bitter...

Kathryn Cavanagh

My father had rheumatic fever when he was about 30 yo which developed into rheumatoid arthritis. An apiarist suggest he could be cured by a course of bee stings. Dad said it couldn't be worse for pain so gave it a go. Cured. Many years later while answering a Doctors questions he mentioned having had the rheumatic fever, doc said no you havent because there are no signs of it ever having been present. Contact made whit original hospital, proof and told doc about the bees. It worked for him, bur I am allergic to bee stings , had only one, but told by doctor if ever stung agin to call an Ambulance and tell them bees sting..