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Venoms are also proving to be valuable sources of antibiotics.
The emerald cockroach wasp injects mind-controlling venom into a cockroach, then lays a single egg on the roach before imprisoning it. The wasp larva eats into the cockroach and feeds off its organs.
Entomologist Justin Schmidt describes the sting of a bullet ant as “like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel.”
Scorpions featured in primitive 'bombs', packed into clay pots that attackers hurled over the walls of besieged cities.