Why do honey bees sting once then die.?

Question

Why do honey bees sting once then die.?

Answer 1

A honeybee that is away from the hive foraging for nectar or pollen will rarely sting, except when stepped on or roughly handled. Honeybees will actively seek out and sting when they perceive the hive to be threatened, often being alerted to this by the release of attack pheromones (below).

Although it is widely believed that a worker honeybee can sting only once, this is a partial misconception: although the stinger is in fact barbed so that it lodges in the victim's skin, tearing loose from the bee's abdomen and leading to its death in minutes, this only happens if the victim is a mammal (or bird). The bee's stinger evolved originally for inter-bee combat between members of different hives, and the barbs evolved later as an anti-mammal defense: a barbed stinger can still penetrate the chitinous plates of another bee's exoskeleton and retract safely. Honeybees are the only hymenoptera with a barbed stinger.

Answer 2

I am pretty sure that they sting once then die.

Answer 3

mother nature is so great. try not to get stung though

Answer 4

because there intestine are attached to the stinger so when the sting you and they break there stinger they are disemboweling themselves (ha ha emo bees)

Answer 5

you mean die once they sting

Answer 6

our blood kills them

Answer 7

When the sting, their stingers get pulled out, as well as their internal organs.

Answer 8

their stingers get pulled out along with their internal organs so they die.