Why do bees die when they sting you

Question

Why do bees die when they sting you

Answer 1

A bee’s stinger is made of two shafts, lined with barbs like fishhooks. When a bee stings, it can’t pull the barbed stinger back out. It leaves behind not only the stinger, but also part of its digestive tract, plus muscles and nerves. This massive abdominal rupture is what kills the bee.

But there’s an advantage for the bees in this. Even after you swat the bee away, a cluster of nerve cells coordinates the muscles of the stinger left behind. The barbed shafts rub back and forth, digging deeper into your skin. Muscular valves pump toxins from an attached venom sac, and deliver it to the wound – for several minutes after the bee is gone. You might’ve heard people say you should flick off the stinger, or scrape it, rather than pinch it off. But since the stinger continues to work after the bee is gone, it’s only essential that you remove it quickly.

And although an individual bee dies when it stings, this makes sense from an evolutionary perspective. Since bees that defend the hive don’t reproduce, the only way they can insure their genes are passed on is by protecting the hive and their reproductive relatives inside.

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Answer 2

I have no idea.  Good question.  I've always wondered this.  I assume it's because they can't live without their stinger.  Maybe losing it is too big a shock for them?

Answer 3

The reason is because when bees sting you, they pull out their stinger in the process.

Their stinger is attached to their abdomen, and when they sting you, the part they cannot live without, comes off.

Answer 4

Bee's stingers, unlike those of wasps, hornets, and ants, have  barbs on the tip.  When the bee stings you, the barbs anchor the stinger into you.  As the bee pulls away, the base of the stinger pulls out some of his internal organs in the process, "including" the venom sac attached to the stinger.  Since the stinger is made of two halves, it literally "walks" into you.   Even after the bee is gone the venom sac keeps pumping the venom into you.

The missing internal organs results in the death of the bee.  They do not care, because, to them, the most important thing is to protect the hive or themselves.

Answer 5

b cause they only hav 1 stinger

Answer 6

  Their stinger and poison sack are pulled out,the barb stays in your skin and poison sack continues to pump formic acid into you.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

They die when they sting you because their stinger gets stuck into your skin and it gets pulled out of them. And when they're stingers get pulled out so do some of their organs.

Answer 9

The stinger is barbed, and is usually pulled out of the bee's body after it stings you.  For the bee this is a fatal wound., comparable to tearing an arm or leg off with no way to stop the bleeding.