What is the difference between a bee and a wasp?

Question

What is the difference between a bee and a wasp?

Answer 1

Wasps hurt way more lol

Answer 2

Well, as you may know, wasps are quite a bit bigger than bees. After bees sting you, their stinger falls off and they die, as wasps do not die after they sting you.

Answer 3

Bees are flying insects closely related to wasps and ants. Bees are a monophyletic lineage within the superfamily Apoidea, presently classified by the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are nearly 20,000 known species of bee, in nine recognized families,[1] though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher. They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.

Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source, and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients. Most pollen is used as food for larvae.

A wasp is any insect of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor ant. The suborder Symphyta, known commonly as sawflies, differ from members of Apocrita by having a broader connection between the mesosoma and metasoma. In addition to this, Symphyta larvae are mostly herbivorous and "caterpillarlike", whereas those of Apocrita are largely predatory or "parasitic" (technically known as parasitoid).

in most wasps:

    * two pairs of wings (except wingless or brachypterous forms in all female Mutillidae, Bradynobaenidae, many male Agaonidae, many female Ichneumonidae, Braconidae, Tiphiidae, Scelionidae, Rhopalosomatidae, Eupelmidae, and various other families).

    * An ovipositor, or stinger (which is only present in females because it derives from the ovipositor, a female s*x organ).

    * Few or no thickened hairs (in contrast to bees); except Mutillidae, Bradynobaenidae, Scoliidae.

    * Nearly all wasps are terrestrial; only a few specialized parasitic groups are aquatic.

    * Predators or parasitoids, mostly on other terrestrial insects; most species of Pompilidae (e.g. tarantula hawks), specialize in using spiders as prey, and various parasitic wasps use spiders or other arachnids as reproductive hosts.

Wasps are critically important in natural biocontrol. Almost every pest insect species has at least one wasp species that is a predator or parasite upon it. Parasitic wasps are also increasingly used in agricultural pest control as they have little impact on crops. Wasps also constitute an important part of the food chain.

Answer 4

wasp stings hurt a whole lot more and jellow jackets hurt even more

Answer 5

Only the female wasp have stingers they also have few or no thickened hair.The solitary wasp do not build nests at all.