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Many insects such as fire ants inject formic acid when they bite or sting describe the type of compound that should be used to treat the bite?
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What does a bee inject when it stings?
When a honey bee stings, it injects a venom called apitoxin. It is a bitter, colorless liquid that causes local inflammation and acts as an anticoagulant. The main component of apitoxin is melittin.
How fish reproduce?
Externally males inject sperm into the water females inject eggs into the water
Can a spider inject venom after its dead?
no
How do great whites mate?
They inject a sperm.
Do spiders have hollow fangs that inject venom into prey?
yes
How ant injects formic acid?
Fire ants inject formic acids.
When ant bites a person which acid is injected into his body?
Mostly formic acid. "Formic" means "ant type". Formic acid was first discovered in ants; that is why they called it formic acid. Actually, the acid doesn't get injected, only squirted into the wound made by the bite. Some ants have stings and inject poison with the sting, but the poison does not usually contain much formic acid, but more dangerous poisons.
What ant makes its own garden?
Amazonian rainforest and leaf-cutter ants are ants that make their own gardens. The first-mentioned insects inject fatal formic acid into saplings other than Duroia hirsuta in order to ensure species-specific food sources and nest sites for their life cycles and natural histories. The second-mentioned insects (Atta and Acromyrmex spp) use compost to grow edible fungi.
What does a bee inject when it stings?
When a honey bee stings, it injects a venom called apitoxin. It is a bitter, colorless liquid that causes local inflammation and acts as an anticoagulant. The main component of apitoxin is melittin.
What crab spiders sense?
Crab spiders eat insects, they inject venom into their prey, then they will take it back to there home and eat it!
President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the term priming the pump to describe his plan to?
inject money into the economy
What would make an insect bite hurt?
Insects often inject an irritant or poison to make their bite hurt, but if not the bite itself can hurt if it breaks the skin.
What is an example of venous reaction?
A non venomous reaction is a reaction caused by non venous insects which bite in order to feed on your blood and usually inject anti-coagulant saliva.
What do wasps inject into you?
When bees and wasps bite our skin they release formic acid under your skin! It hurts.........Bees stings are very acidic! All it can be treated by calamine lotion or bicarbonate soda so it can cancel out acid. Wasp stings are alkaline,they can be treated by putting vinegar,which is an acid,on it.
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