Why do bees die after they sting people?
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Well actually only some bees can sting people, and only sometimes do stinging bees die after they sting, contrary to popular belief. \n\nThere are many species of stingless bees. All the bees native to Central America are stingless. Fourteen of the 1600 Australian native bee species are stingless.\n\nThe stinger is a modified oviposter, or organ for laying eggs. Therefore, the male or drone bees are stingless. There are species of solitary bees where every female is fertile, that are also stingless bees. \n\nThe stinger was evolved for bee to bee combat, and only when bees sting mammals do the barbs in the bee get caught in the animal, and this causes some of the internal organs to be pulled out of the bee after stinging. Bees that sting other things besides mammals usually do not die. \n\nA close relative to bees, the social wasps, always have "unbarbed" stingers and can sting as often as they like (there are other wasps, like parasitic wasps, that have no stinger). Hornets, a term for some large wasp species, have unbarbed stingers, as do yellow jackets, which are small wasp species (actually, according to 7. they are not really unbarbed, but the barbs are short enough that the stinger can be pulled out without killing the insect). \n\nThere are even some bees that have unbarbed stingers, so they do not die after stinging people, and can sting repeatedly (see references 3, 5, 6). The queen bee usually has a barbless stinger so it also can sting repeatedly without dying.
960183
Honeybee sting can help!Simple,instant and last longer.
1182498
I think it's cause when they die of poisoning they kick around alot and they just flip over, \n\nand otherwise, how could you tell if they were dead or not?
114636
Only bees make honey.  They have been making honey for at least 100 million years as a source of food for the bee colony during the winter months when flowers are not blooming and no nectar is available.  Unlike most insects, bees are active all winter, so they need the honey to eat and metabolize so they don't freeze to death.  Because some bees produce far more honey than the hive could possibly use over the winter months, we get to have honey to eat.\n\nMany species of insects also consume the nectar from flowers, but only bees refine and concentrate the nectar to make honey.
990415
I agree with the posters who say they're just honeybees.  Hopefully they're not killer bees.  Please do not try to kill them.  If you aren't willing to let them stay, find out about getting the hive moved to a different spot.  Unless you're allergic or they hive is in your way, there isn't really a reason for you to bother them.
727133
Three years age when I was working in Mexico, I was attack by africanized honey bees, I was stung over 1000 times.  I only remained concious for the first few minutes, but I remember it was excurciating, like a raging fire cooking you from the inside, I feel unconscious, luckily my crew was near by, and managed to slow the onslaught with a fire hose, got a fireblanket on me.  I was one life support for 4 weeks and comatose for 6 months.  I swole to 3 times my normal size and had bites everywhere, mostly arms, neck, face, back, but also had bites in the crack of my as*, and other nether regions.  My ears are still sensitive 3 years later.  The pictures were truly disgusting.  I would have to say that was the worst thing that has stung me.  When working in Africa I was bitten by a baby horned viper, right on my the meat of my thumb, that also hurt pretty good, swole up, turned blue/black, was tender for a while, made sick for a few days, but I don't know if it was the bite or the anti-venom that did that.  But it was a candle to a bon fire compared to the Bees.
933147
Actually a highly venomous spider after death would not be wise to touch. A dead bee if you touch the stinger you will be stung and injected with venom even though it is dead. A poisonous spider would be one that is fatal to eat. The word poisonous and the word venomous in regards to animals have two separate meanings.
469422
Of course they can. I once bought a round of beer at a local bar, where I was served by a bee who was working part time as a barmaid. The bee overcharged me by £5. I don't even think it was a girl bee, but it was difficult to tell as the bar was quite dark. That was the last time I was stung by a bee in a bar though, as if I see a bee behind the bar in a pub, I just leave without buying a drink. Just remember, bees are untrustworthy bar stewards.
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Although a hive only needs 20-30 lb. of honey to survive an average winter, the bees are capable, if given the space of collecting much more. This is what the beekeeper wants them to do. Honey Bees are the highest form of insect life, they live in a well organised colony that does not need to hibernate. They produce honey and store it in wax comb and use the same hive from one year to the next.\n\nIndeed, they make lots of honey so they will have plenty of food for times when flower nectar is unavailable, such as winter.  Unlike most insects, honeybees remain active through the winter, consuming and metabolizing honey in order to keep from freezing to death.\n\nWorkers born early in the season will live about 6 weeks while those born in the fall will live until the following spring.
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Actually, in the social hymenoptera (bees, wasps, and ants) the workers in any colony will all be the DAUGHTERS of the queen.  They are all female.\n\nIn most species, the workers are sterile, and cannot produce their own offspring.  In some of the more 'primitive' species, like Pharaoh ants, the workers can become fertile and can move off to form their own colonies if there is stress on the mother hive - each one becoming a queen.  In many of the more 'advanced' social hymenoptera, the ovipositor (the structure used for laying eggs) becomes modified in the workers into a stinger, since it is no longer needed for egg laying.  The stinger of the honeybee, which is barbed and rips out after stinging is the most derived form of this, but stingers can be found in many wasps, and even ants.\n\nThe males of the hives, known as drones in most social insects have no stinger, because they never had an ovipositor.  The number of males in a hive varies depending on the species.  In some species the drones are indolent wastrels, hanging out in the hive doing nothing just waiting for the call to come perform some sweet sweet lovin' for the queen.  In most species, the males also forage, going out and drinking nectar and the like, but because their numbers are much lower than the worker females of the hive and they don't have the specialized structures such as pollen baskets, their contribution is not as significant.\n\nIn most hives, the number of males is around 10 to 15% of the total population.\n\nMale honeybees can be identified by their long, cylindrical bodies in comparison with the workers, and their two very large compound eyes that nearly meet up on the top of their head.\n\nBecause they are pretty much a drain on the resources, and not required for short-term survival, the males are often kicked out of the hive when food becomes scarce, or when winter begins to draw near.\n\nWithout looking at the genitalia of the ant in question, it may be difficult to determine if it is a drone or not.  If it has wings it is either a queen or a male.  In many ants, the male has a smaller head and larger eyes, but I'm not sure if that applies in all ants or not.
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by killing insects, it disrupts the foodchain at a low level, affecting everything above it. also, any good things the insects might have done, like pollinating plants etc will be stopped.
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During the course of one queen bee it lays thousands of eggs during its life time which may spread around two years or so.During flower season when more nectar and pollen can be collected from flowers the queen becomes more active and lays more eggs. So during that season the colony becomes really big and the worker bees decide to split and they make queen cells by combining three cells into one and a four five queen cells may be formed and they feed them with royal gelly food. Just before the first new queen bee comes out of the cell the queen be which is already there may fly along with thousands of workers to another location and to build a new hive.Like this one or two more SWARMS may go and thereafter they may not\nallow more queens to come out and sometimes two queens may fight and one gets killed and other queen celss are destroyed.\nVery rarely when a queen bee is so old and is past egg laying capacity, it may be allowed to live in the same hive but the active young queen bee is the head and lays eggs etc.
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Evil Twin is right.  The bee's sting has a barb and it stays in you until taken out with a tweezers or such.  The venom sack stays connected to it and you can actually see it pulsating, pumping further venom into you.  For a bee to sting it has to be a last resort for as Evil said, it will die.  The wasp on the other hand has no barb and can and will continue to sting you for no apparent reason especially in Autumn when fallen fruit begins to ferment.  They actually get drunk on it and seem to sting for no reason.
1103147
Bee= Male (the stinger)\n"gets friendly" with\nBird= Female
734845
Insect stings are usually caused by injecting acid which neutralized by alkaline or baking soda!!
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Normally, the body learns to defend itself through experience - by encountering, battling and remembering one enemy after another. For decades, medical science has taken advantage of this ability by using vaccination to create immunity - the immunologic "memory" of a disease. Allergic reactions occur after the immune system mistakenly learns to recognize innocent foreign substances (allergens) as potentially harmful.\n\nThe following story illustrates how an allergy can develop:\n\nOver a field of ragweed plants floats an invisible cloud of pollen grains, soon carried by the wind into a nearby town. The pollen is inhaled by a child whose body has never been exposed to this substance before.\n\nBecause of some genetic predisposing factor, this child's immune system overreacts and produces large numbers of IgE antibodies, all specially designed to respond to ragweed pollen. Several of the antibodies attach themselves to cells in the child's nasal passages and upper respiratory tract.\n\nThese cells (known as mast cells) contain strong chemicals called mediators, the best-known of which is histamine.\n\nLater, when the child inhales the same kind of pollen again, proteins from the pollen bind in a lock-and-key fashion to the specially designed antibodies on the surface of the mast cells. This sets off an explosion of sorts, as the mediators burst from inside the mast cells, destroying the pollen and also damaging surrounding tissues. The results are sneezing, a stuffy head, sniffling, stuffed-up head and red, watery eyes - well-known hallmarks of allergies.
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Honey bees are attracted to plants with bright colours however they cant see red. All the bees (females  called workers) will go out and once one finds a spot with alot of flowers the bee marks that area with a scent returns to the hive to get the other bees so they dont waste time looking for flowers.