2006-07-27 09:45:56 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
When a bee stings you it's stinger stays in your skin when it pulls away because the stinger is barbed. The stinger pulls all the insides out of the bee and they die. Bees only sting once because of this and they know what happens so a bee stinging you feels threatend or provoked. A wasp on the other hand has no barbed stinger and can sting you many times.
2006-07-27 09:52:24 · answer #1 · answered by Celesta 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
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What happens to a bee after it sting you? Does it die because it no longer has its stinger??
2015-08-10 10:29:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All females of Apis species have a barbed ovipositor that has evolved into what is called a stinger. Poison sacks have replaced their ovaries.
When the stinger is inserted in to something the bee pulls away leaving the stinger and the third ganglia behind. Lose of the third ganglia results in the death of the individual.
In Apis mellifera (Honey bee ALL races) the bee also emits and leaves a pheromone that is an alert to other guard and worker bees.
Bumble Bees like Wasp and hornet species as well as yellow jackets all have smooth stingers that do not pull out the third ganglia.
2006-07-27 10:36:15 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bees' stingers pull out and remain in your skin because they are barbed, and yes, the bee does die. Wasps have straight stingers, so they sting you and then can fly away and be just fine with their stingers intact.
2006-07-27 09:50:18 · answer #4 · answered by Cat Loves Her Sabres 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When a bee stings, barbs in the lance of the sting cause it to firmly stick into the victim pulling out the venom sacs and glands when the bee is shaken off. The venom sac muscles continue to pump after these organs have been torn from the dying bee. Only the female workers and the queen can sting, the queen having a smooth sting which she uses to kill other queens.
2006-07-27 09:54:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it does. A bee can sting only once. If stung by a bee, SCRAPE the stinger off your skin--do not pinch it. Pinching it can release more venom. Baking soda paste or mud pasted on the would helps to keep the swelling minimal.
2006-07-27 09:48:43 · answer #6 · answered by ukiahmom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends on the bee. a normal bumble bee will die becuase its whole a(ss) gets ripped out along with the stinger. some bees like wasps or somethin have a stinger that isnt barbed so it can slip its stinger out of u and fly away
2006-07-27 09:49:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They die because when they sting you the stinger pulls out part of their insides (the poison sac and muscle that pumps the poison through the stinger). They end up dying from the injury caused by this.
2006-07-27 09:48:48 · answer #8 · answered by rweasel6 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most species of bees have a barb on the end of their stinger. When they try to pull it out they essentially disembowel themselves.
2006-07-27 09:48:34 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes afifrican can sting many times
2006-07-27 09:46:59 · answer #10 · answered by Dave 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋