Hello - I have a quick question about the evolution of the stinger.  Is it
true that stingers in general evolved from ovipositors?  Can it be said that
a worker bee's stinger is actually the reproductive system tweaked to
produce poison rather than eggs and to insert that poison into flesh rather
than to insert an egg into the ground?  Is the stinger a remnant of a
sterile worker bee's reproductive tract?

Or did I make this up?