Are these really bees in my sandbox?

What is the correct term for the material injected by a wasp or bee sting?

Bee-venom, bee-sting.

Venom, used without a pre-fix, sounds to me like cyanide or strychnine. Venom is lethal, poisonous. Bee-venom is just painful.

But it’s the context of that entire article that is fear mongering. This word -usage is the least problem.