Honeybee's stinger continues to pump venom once detached from body, new footage shows – video

Honeybee's stinger continues to pump venom once detached from body, new footage shows – videoHigh-speed video captures a previously unknown process that lets a honeybee’s two-millimetre stinger pump venom even after detaching from the insect’s body. Using a clear gel that mimics human skin as a target, researchers from Macquarie University detached the stingers and then filmed them in action pumping venomExplore more on these topicsBeesMore on this storyMore on this story‘Catastrophic wildfire loop’ after colonisation left parts of Australia more at risk from bushfires, study finds ‘We cannot accept foxes as part of our landscape’: the plan to save Australia’s threatened wildlifeUnderlying causes of recurrent bacterial vaginosis identified by Australian scientists‘He loved that little bat’: Richard Morecroft’s passion for wildlife rescue praised in tributesAn ocean away from Nepal, Sonia spends her spare time piecing together clues about missing flood victims: ‘I wanted to be useful’Authorities issue shark warning over whale that swam 11km upstream in Clarence River and later died Flushing the toilet can release a ‘plume’ of breathable pathogens – and closing the lid won’t stop their escape Whales on Australia’s ‘humpback highway’ are at growing risk of injury from boat and propeller strikesRescue of Nepal hydropower workers ‘triumph for humans and humanity’, tunnelling expert saysThe 2026 BirdLife Australia photography awards – in picturesMost viewedMost viewed