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.
Spaghetti sort parallel computing device. There are then "n" rods to remove so, assuming each contact-and-removal operation takes constant time, the worst-case time complexity of the algorithm is O("n"). Spaghetti sort Spaghetti sort is a linear-time, analog algorithm for sorting a sequence of items, introduced by Alexander Dewdney in his "Scientific American" column. This algorithm sorts a sequence of items requiring O("n") stack space in a stable manner. It requires a parallel processor. For simplicity, assume we are sorting a list of natural numbers. The sorting method is illustrated using uncooked rods of spaghetti: Preparing the "n" rods of spaghetti takes linear