Venom organ failure. Many caterpillars have defensive venom glands associated with specialized bristles on the body, known as urticating hairs, which can be lethal to humans (e.g., that of the "Lonomia" moth), although the venom's strength varies depending on the species. Bees synthesize and employ an acidic venom (apitoxin) to cause pain in those that they sting to defend their hives and food stores, whereas wasps use a chemically different alkaline venom designed to paralyze prey, so it can be stored alive in the food chambers of their young. The use of venom is much more widespread than just these examples.
The Venom Trees of Sunga Venom Trees of Sunga" definitively places Kukulkan in the "Viagens" universe. Roland J. Green, writing for the "Chicago Sun-Times", called the book "light without being fluffy ... [w]itty and briskly paced, with a number of digs at the New Age world-view." The Venom Trees of Sunga The Venom Trees of Sunga is a science fiction novel by American writer L. Sprague de Camp, the twelfth book in his "Viagens Interplanetarias" series and the second in its subseries of stories set on the fictional planet Kukulkan. It was first published in paperback by Del Rey Books in November 1992. An E-book