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To the Editor: We enjoyed the cautionary tale by Lynch and Rothstein (June 12 issue)¹ about a woman who accidentally ingested an insect while drinking a can of soda and was apparently stung in the throat. However, the endoscopic photograph of the bug in her stomach, described as a "bee-zoar," shows not a bee but a wasp. The culprit appears to be the German yellow jacket, Vespula germanica, an unwelcome but now firmly established migrant from Europe.² A bee's stinger is barbed and would have remained in the oropharyngeal mucosa with its poison sac and have been easily visualized. A . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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A Gastric "Bee-Zoar"
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N Engl J Med 1997; 336:1763-1764, Jun 12, 1997. Correspondence

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