A bee sting is pretty straightforward, right? The bee jabs, the human victim (the stingee, if you will) shouts a profanity or two, then the bee flies away. But that’s not the whole story with 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 proteins ...