Why do bees die shortly after they sting someone?

Question

Why do bees die shortly after they sting someone?

Answer 1

It's just female honeybees. When they sting mammals and fly away, they literally tear out their inner organs and can't survive long past that.

Answer 2

when a bee stings something it's stinger sometimes becomes imbeded and breaks off. This causes it to die because the "nervous system" is disrupted. They have no 'brain'.

Answer 3

bees unfortunately are cursed with a horrible defense. They're all kamikazes. They don't sting unless they really really have to, so it's ok if a bee is flying around your head, they're actually scared to sting someone because it means they're going to bite it. and hard. As the others say, there's a little hook on their stinger which means their stinger gets stuck in your skin. So when they try to fly away, whoops!! out comes their entire stomach and guts attached to the stinger. That really sucks.

Wasps and yellow jackets sting like the dickens because they have smooth stingers and can sting over and over again. That makes them a little bit more aggressive because obviously, they're not going to eat dirt when they sting you.

When a bee stings you, it's their last chance to save others in their colony. They do it for the other bees. not for themselves. Very compassionate creatures.  

Answer 4

The stingers are barbed, when they try to pull out after the sting it rips out most of their innards.

Answer 5

The stingers are barbed and the bee loses part it's back end when the singer and poison sack pull out.  Wasps do not have barbed stingers and they can sting repeatedly.

Answer 6

Bees only die shortly after stinging because the stinger is poisonous and once the poison is out of the bees body it dies. wasps are different they have stingers bot don't die after a sting.