IS IT TRUE WHEN A BEE STINGS you it dies? IF THAT'S TRUE..WHY?

Question

IS IT TRUE WHEN A BEE STINGS you it dies? IF THAT'S TRUE..WHY?

Answer 1

good question

Answer 2

The stinger is torn from the honeybee's body and it dies.

Answer 3

yes..

Answer 4

The stinger on bees and wasps is their ovipositor.  In bees the ovipositor is barbed and so the ovaries and venom sac is left the the person stung(so you remove it carefully.  If you grab the stinger to remove it you will inject more stuff into you).  In most wasps there are no barbs so they can sting repeatedly. It is an evolutionary advantage for bees.  Predators can withstand repeated stings, but if they get more venom in each time they wipe the stingers away they eventually will leave the hive not matter how tasty the honey.  Look for a film on a bear tearing into the hive and you will see what I mean.

Answer 5

There are some bees that don't have stingers.

Others have stingers but don't die after stinging. These sting, pump in some venom and then fly away and live to sting again later.

The ones you refer to are like the American honeybee. They have barbs on their stingers that hold it to the surface that they sting. When they move away, their stinger and some of their internal organs stay with the victim.

The bee dies but the stinger’s natural pump stays with the stinger and continues pumping venom into the victim.

Answer 6

yes, its true.

the sting of a bee is a part of its external genitalia, known as "valvula 1".

this valvula is attatched to a lancet anteriorly, and a poison gland posteriorly.

when a bee stings, its "entire sting apparatus" (external genitalia) detatches from its body, and gets into the skin of the stung person.

bees lack "retractor muscles" which could have retracted the sting apparatus back into the body of the bee..

so it simply loses its external genitalia by stinging a person or even an animal, and then, bee dies.

Answer 7

It's true of honeybees, but not all kinds of bees.

The stinger is torn from the honeybee's body and it dies.

The good of the Many has priority over the good of the One.