>> "can fire venom-filled stingers out of its body and into passing victims" - doing both those things, sometimes at the same time...
>> No, it's the "and". A conjunction of TWO things, at least so it makes it sound.
My understanding is that this is a concise way of saying
can fire venom-filled stingers out of its body
- and -
can fire venom-filled stingers into passing victimsIs the "and" redundant? In this case, probably.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
