Buzz off.This guy made quite a buzz when he covered his body with 30,000 honeybees at a zoo in Lima, Peru. Nicknamed Bee Man, Arturo Huaman sported this bee coat to draw attention to a campaign promoting natural honey. How did he pull off this stunt safely? "In general, bees are gentle creatures. And they only sting to defend their hive [bee shelter]," says Steven Kutcher, an entomologist (en-tuh-MOL-uh-jest), or scientist who studies insects. The honeybee honeybee Broadly, any bee that makes honey (any insect of the tribe Apini, family Apidae); more strictly, one of the four species constituting the genus Apis. The term is usually applied to one species, the domestic honeybee (A. , or Apis mellifera Apis mellifera Honeybee Immunology A major cause of life-threatening anaphylaxis in sensitized individuals Clinical Fever, chills, light-headedness, hives, joint and muscle pain, bronchial constriction, SOB, hypotension, pulmonary edema, shock, and possibly, death. (AYE-piss meh-LIFF-er-AH), lives in a colony. This bee family includes one egg-laying queen, male bees, and workers--the type of bees blanketing Huaman. The queen communicates with the workers by releasing a powerful pheromone pheromone Any chemical compound secreted by an organism in minute amounts to elicit a particular reaction from other organisms of the same species. Pheromones are widespread among insects and vertebrates (except birds) and are present in some fungi, slime molds, and algae. (chemical made by an animal that affects the behavior of other animals of the same species). Its effect: The worker bees guard her and the hive. To keep the bee palace safe, the worker bee has a venomous venomous secreting poison; poisonous. (poisonous) stinger in its abdomen. When this tiny protector senses danger, it jabs its sticker into the enemy, says Kutcher. That can be deadly. The venom from 500 bee stings is equal to a rattlesnake rattlesnake, poisonous New World snake of the pit viper family, distinguished by a rattle at the end of the tail. The head is triangular, being widened at the base. The rattle is a series of dried, hollow segments of skin, which, when shaken, make a whirring sound. bite! So how did Huaman lure thousands of bees so far from their hive? Most likely, says Kutcher, he hung a caged queen bee around his neck like a pendant. That way, the queen would release her pheromone into the air around Bee Man. Just one whiff of the motherly moth·er·ly adj. 1. Of, like, or appropriate to a mother: motherly love. 2. Showing the affection of a mother. adv. In a manner befitting a mother. odor would send the workers swarming around the dangling cage--and Huaman's face. Think this fashion statement was sting-free? If Huaman stayed completely still, he might have walked away with just one sting, Kutcher says. But that meant he had to "bee" really careful! |
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