If it forced itself into your ear? Would it be able to sting something important in your head and kill you?
2006-09-22 11:16:58 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
If you have an allergy, even a small sting can be lethal, as your immune system gets completely carried away and basically does the killing instead of the bee toxin.
If you don't, your life in very seldom in jeopardy. When Africanized - or 'killer' bees - manage to kill people, it is usually because many of them fly inside a victim's mouth and nose, and stings the person so many times that the swelling cuts off their ability to breathe. This cannot be done by just one bee either!
So don't sweat it. Bees don't want to sting you any more than you want to be stung by them. Their territoriality is prompted by chemicals in your breath, so as long as you don't breath on them they probably won't bother you at all. (I've seen videos where a person breathing in a tube literally smacks around a beehive and the bees don't seem to care at all... but the second he takes the tube out, they all start freaking out. Interesting to see!)
2006-09-22 11:34:37 · answer #1 · answered by Doctor Why 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are allergic to bee stings then a single small bee sting might be able to kill you...
It would have nothing to do with stinging you in the ear...
2006-09-22 11:43:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not unless you had a severe allergy to bee venom. In that case, it might kill you by stinging you anywhere.
2006-09-22 11:18:47 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
of course a bee can kill u! Several people a year accidently swallow bees because bees like sweet stuff and fly into soda and other beverages.
2006-09-22 14:16:23 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only if you're seriously allergic. Otherwise, it would just be REALLY irritating.
2006-09-22 11:18:24 · answer #5 · answered by Soy 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋