Scouted: Scorpions can set venom on stun or kill

2003-01-21 Thread Jon Gabriel
From CNN.com: Scorpions can set venom on stun or kill Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Posted: 9:46 AM EST (1446 GMT) Scorpions save their deadly venom for when they really need it. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scorpions don't bother to waste venom killing a victim if they don't have to. Instead they use a

Re: Scouted: Scorpions can set venom on stun or kill

2003-01-21 Thread Doug Pensinger
Jon Gabriel wrote: Hammock said he got interested in working with scorpion venom while researching insecticides. He wanted to take the type of common cold virus that infects insects and insert a gene for a toxin, so that when the insect gets a cold it dies. Now that sounds like an effective