can some one tell me why bees die after they sting you an wasps don't?

Answer 1

A wasp's stinger is smooth. It can sting an enemy multiple times and survive. For example, there is a wasp in the Southwest that fights a tarantula with her stinger and after she kills him, she lays eggs on his body so that her babies have food when they hatch. A honeybee worker has a barbed stinger. When it stings other insects, like a praying mantis for example, its stinger, and its lower body stays intact. Only when a honeybee stings a bird or a mammal, will the barb catch and disembowel the bee. But what most people don't know is, that like a female wasp, the queen honeybee also has a smooth stinger, so that she can fight with her rival queens and live to lay another day.

Answer 2

The sting of the bee is barbed, as opposed to that of the wasp which is smooth. Therefore, when the bee inserts its sting into the skin it sticks, like a hook in a fish mouth. The bee then pulls away or is brushed off the person, and the sting is pulled out of the bees body. With it, the poison gland, and a small group of muscles which surround the gland. These muscles contract, pumping the poison into the skin of the stingee. With its sting ripped away, the bee will die within a short time.

This is why bees will only sting to protect their honey, Queen or hive, as it is an all or nothing response to attack.

Wasps, in contrast, can and will sting many many times, their smooth stings remaining attached to the wasp after the sting.

Answer 3

A beautiful mechanism introduced by mother nature forcing the humble bee to really have a good think before it attacks - as it will sign it's own death warrant by doing so. Thus, it will never do so unless it's own death is pending anyway, or there is something it is protecting worth sacrificing itself over. When the bee stings, the syringe becomes detached from it's body, so it becomes half a bee.

Wasps on the other hand can, and will, sting for fun.

Answer 4

A bee's stinger has a barb at the end and when it stings you, it becomes embedded in your skin and basically disembowels the bee. A wasp has a smooth stinger, so it can sting you, pull the stinger out, and sting you again as many times as it wants.

Answer 5

because bee's stingers are barbed and wasp's are really smooth. so when a be stings you, the barb sticks to your skin (eeeeewwwwwwww) and gets ripped out when the bee tries to fly away. but when a wasp stings you, it's smooth so it doesn't catch onto your skin. it can sting you any amount of times it wants to. get it now??? you better cause my fingers are really hurting from doin all this typing. bye bye!

Answer 6

I believe that a bee's sting has barbs, so the bee cannot pull it back out. It rips out of his body when he tries to remove it.

A wasp's stinger is smooth, like a needle.

Answer 7

It is because bees and wasps are like people. The bees are the "gentlemen/ladies" who work hard all their lives but the first time they do anything wrong get stuffed .Where as wasps are like the slilmy swarmy types who get away with anything and come up smelling of roses evertime..a bit like senior managers in the health service really.

Answer 8

Because when a bee stings you their sting rips out and this kills them. When a wasp stings you they keep their sting.

Answer 9

whilst a wasp had a barb that is smooth and straight (like a syringe point) a bee has a barb that is like an upside down xmas tree....thus when it stings you it cannot withdraw the barb without ripping its guts out and thus it dies..

Answer 10

When the bee stings you it leaves he stinger in, and once it flies off the stinger rips out its intestines, so it dies