Bees can bite intruders with their mandibles and temporarily paralyze them.
- eliochel
- Feb 22, 2023
- 1 min read
Bees secrete an anesthetic, 2-heptanone, from their mandibular glands. When guard bees break through the outer body covering of intruders, this secretion can enter the intruder’s body and cause temporary paralysis.