The Honeybee's Final Sting

When a honeybee drives its barbed stinger into human skin, something remarkable happens. The stinger tears away from the bee's abdomen, taking with it a cluster of vital organs. The bee staggers, crawls a few inches, and dies. The very weapon it used to attack becomes the instrument of its own destruction. Entomologists at Cornell University have documented this for decades — the honeybee's sting is, paradoxically, a suicide mission.…