Blood bee
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| - | |name= Blood | + | |name=Blood bee |
| - | |habitat=Katayvan, deep jungles | + | |habitat=[[Overview|Katayvan]], deep jungles |
| - | |description= | + | |description=Spattered a sanguine red on deep crimson, this thick-bodied bee is approximately one [[Measurements|thum]] long, with a slightly shorter wingspan. A single one-use barbed stinger depends from the posterior abdomen, and its sharp proboscis has evolved into a hardened protrusion capable of penetrating thick hides and skin. Specimens which have not recently fed are a darker maroon, and far less thick-bodied. |
| - | | | + | |notes=More fly than bee, it makes a blood wine instead of honey, gathering blood from freshly dead or even living creatures. Its wicked sting and vicious bites draw the source for its secretion, which ferments in a conical hive. |
| - | |notes= More fly than bee, it makes a blood wine instead of honey, gathering blood from freshly dead or even living creatures. Its wicked sting and vicious bites draw the source for its secretion, which ferments in a conical hive. | + | |
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| + | Folklore maintains that the blood bee, unlike some of its less aggressive cousins, can sting repeatedly before dying, although it is uncertain whether so-called extra stings are merely painful bites from the bee's atypical mandibles. | ||
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Folklore maintains that the blood bee, unlike some of its less aggressive cousins, can sting repeatedly before dying, although it is uncertain whether so-called extra stings are merely painful bites from the bee's atypical mandibles.
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