2006-12-10 01:21:12 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
They lose their stingers. It's like they bleed to death after they sting you. It's the same as if your arm was chopped off and you got no medical help.
2006-12-10 06:18:10 · answer #1 · answered by Brian Byrd 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The honeybee worker's stinger, which has a barb, and a venom sac with it are detached from the bee's body after it has stung someone. The detached sting will continue to deliver venom for some time after. For the bee, the loss of these parts is fatal.
Interestingly, the barb only works when the bee is stinging something with fleshy tissues, like a human. The stinger will not detach when the bee stings some other insect.
2006-12-10 01:29:52 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The male honey bee dose not have a stinger.The female honey bee will die after she stings because the thick skin in most mammals the barb of the stinger gets stuck and tears the abdomen.They can sting other insects without death resulting. Here is a link for more info!
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2006-12-10 02:30:44 · answer #3 · answered by eva diane 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are 20,000 species of bees and only 7 officially recognized species of honey bees. The honey bee is the only bee that dies after it stings you. Bumblebees do not, nor any other bee. Some bees don't even have stingers, some grow new stingers, some just are unaffected by the sting they just delivered. There are about 44 races or subspecies of all the 7 species combined, it should be pointed out. Western honey bees scientific name is Apis mellifera.
2006-12-10 17:42:26 · answer #4 · answered by Professor Armitage 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you would sting, this would be the equivalent to you ripping out part of your intestines, you are going to die. Bees don't have hospitals to patch them up.
Their stinger is actually a modified sexual organ. All stinging insects are female, and this organ is like part of not only the genitalia, but the end of their guts equivalent to your intestines; their internal organs.
2006-12-10 01:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Tina is right. By stinging the stinger stays in the stinged.
Losing the stinger, the intestines get ripped out of the bee.
Sorry it is the only right answer.
2006-12-10 01:31:18 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe it is because when the stinger is used, barbs on it do not allow it to be removed, and it takes some of the internal organs of the bee.
2006-12-10 01:25:29 · answer #7 · answered by Craig M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stinger pulls their intestines out.
2006-12-10 01:28:33 · answer #8 · answered by Tina B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The needle is their life. They rather sacrifice their own life than you disturb their family.
2006-12-10 01:24:38 · answer #9 · answered by wonderful girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they leave the stinger in you and they can't live without their stinger.
2006-12-10 01:24:17 · answer #10 · answered by Cuddly Lez 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋