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
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