Why
Do Bees Die After Stinging You?
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Description:
Lots of people say that a bee will die after stinging
someone, but is that actually true? Do bees die after a sting? And if so, why?
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Transcription:
Lots of people say that a bee will die after stinging
someone, but is that actually true? Do bees die after a sting, and if so, why?
Let¡¯s find out on today¡¯s episode of Colossal
Questions!
There are all kinds of bees buzzing out there in the
world: bumblebees, honeybees, carpenter bees, yellow jackets, wasps, and
hornets, just to name a few that you may have heard of. But it turns out that
only one species of bee can actually die from stinging you: the honeybee.
And it happens to them for a well, kind of gruesome
reason. You see, a honeybee's stinger is barbed and doesn¡¯t exactly stab but
screws into your flesh like a corkscrew, driving their whole stinger into your
skin and injecting a venom called Apitoxin.
But this isn¡¯t some sort of strange last-ditch suicide
sting. Honeybees can pull their stinger out of other insects and most other
animals, but mammal's skin is thick and made of tiny little fibers that tend to
tangle up the barbs on the bee's stinger. When the bee tries to pull away after
corkscrew stabbing you, its stinger gets caught in our skin, and it¡¯s ripped
right out of the bee's abdomen as it tries to fly away.
But even after accidentally killing itself, the bee
isn¡¯t done doing damage. A bee's stinger can keep shooting venom into your body
for up to 10 minutes if you don¡¯t remove it.
Sometimes a honeybee will survive a stinging if the
person being stung has thin skin that doesn¡¯t quite hold the barbed stinger in
place, but since a honeybee's stinger is designed to dig as deep as possible,
well, that doesn¡¯t tend to happen too often.
In a honeybee hive, female worker bees are actually
the only ones who can sting. In fact, male honeybees don¡¯t even have stingers.
So, do bees actually die when they sting you? Well,
honeybees do; they just don¡¯t mean to!
So if you see a bee buzzing about, it¡¯s best to just
keep your distance and let it do its thing. You really don¡¯t want to get stung,
and it¡¯s safe to assume the bees aren¡¯t looking to rip themselves apart either!
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Questions:
1. What do you think about honeybees?
2. Have you ever been stung by one?
3. Would you like to learn more about other types of
bees?