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Why do bees sting?

First, not all bees sting. There are hundreds of species of bees, but not all of them have a stinger. More than others, we are familiar with the sting of the honey bee. At the back of the bee's body is the stinger and other organs surrounding it. The sting is a very complex organ. On the one hand, it is an egg-laying apparatus and its main function is to lay eggs. The spear-like sting consists of three parts that surround the central channel.

Attached to the tip of the stinger are two venom-filled sacs. There are also two very small, sensitive, finger-like extensions. They tell the bee that its back has touched the object it wants to sting. When a bee stings, the proboscis of the sting moves forward and the poison from the sacs enters the wound.

For some people, this poison is very harmful. If a bee has stuck the point of its stinger into the skin, it is not so easy to take it out. Therefore, after a bite, the bee dies: the sting and other organs of attack remain inside the person, and without them she cannot live.

If a bee leaves a sting in a person's body, it should be carefully removed. Removing the stinger at one end can damage the venom glands that remain attached to it, adding more venom to the wound.

Author: Likum A.

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What is the course of a sailing ship relative to the wind called?

Usually the course of the ship is determined by the angle between the plane of the meridian and the centreline of the ship, measured in degrees from the northern part of the meridian in a clockwise direction (from 0 to 360 degrees). However, on sailing ships, in addition to the usual, the determination of the course relative to the wind is used according to the angle between the direction of the wind and the centreline of the ship. Depending on the value of this angle, the ship's course receives various names: sidewind, gulfwind, backstay and jibe.

Badewind - the course of the ship, at which the angle between its diametral plane and the direction of the wind is 10-80 degrees starboard or port. There are close-hauled (angle 10-45 degrees) and full-hauled (angle 45-80 degrees).

A Gulfwind is a course at which the diametrical plane of the vessel makes a right angle or close to a right angle with the direction of the wind. About a ship sailing in Gulfwind, they say that it "goes at half wind."

Backstay - a course at which the angle between the diametrical plane of the vessel and the wind line is 90-180 degrees to starboard or port. There are a steep backstay (angle 90-135 degrees) and a full backstay (angle 135-180 degrees).

A jibe is the course of a ship that is in line with the direction of the wind. Sometimes a gybe is called a full wind, and a ship sailing in a gybe is said to be "going with full wind".

The name of the course of a sailing ship, in which the wind blows right in its nose, is not mentioned in marine dictionaries and encyclopedias, but this gap in marine terminology was filled by Captain Khristofor Bonifatievich Vrungel (the hero of Andrei Nekrasov’s story, beloved by many children), who proposed the name "vmorduwind".

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