Miss Apis’s Sting. "9 
is savages, and like the cruel savages 
pe too poisons her weapon. 
4%) That is why it hurts us 
so. A jet of poison is 
pumped down the hollow 
sting from a poison bag 
> in her body, and is forced 
into the wound through 
/ barbs on each lance. So when Miss 
Wy / ‘Apis stings us, we get ten jets of poison 
‘pumped into the little hole she makes in 
aN | , our skin. 
WW gare Miss Apis’s pleasant weapon is 
4 AS her constant companion, and she 
if | ‘ wa ris very free to use it, excepting when 
I N; \\W 
Wild Black- the aforementioned bad 
| ' berry. WZ 
birds snap her up so 
F awuickty and swallow 
yj her down so fast, 
that she has 
“N's not time to get 
over her surprise 
