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Bees can bite intruders with their mandibles and temporarily paralyze them.

Feb 22, 20231 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.

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