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Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/honeybee-sting-kill-bee
TIL that bees die a very gruesome death when they sting you. “As the honeybee tries to pull out the stinger, it ruptures its lower abdomen, leaving the stinger embedded, pulling out instead a string of digestive material, muscles, glands and a venom sac.”
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Only Honey Bees.
Most species of bee have smooth stingers, and can sting repeatedly. Honey Bees have a barbed stinger. While that kills the Bee, it allows the stinger to stay imbedded in the attacker and pump poison for minutes after stinging
Me: “Bee, you really wanna sting me? You know what’s going to happen.”
Honey Bee: “This is what I do, darlin. This is what I do.”
Be a bitch, die like a bitch
Sting, stang, stung
Can confirm.
Am beekeeper.
For a real thrill, read about what happens to drones (males) when they mate.
That’s right. For a honeybee to defend itself, or its hive, it has no choice but to defend to the death. Pretty serious stakes. If you get stung by a honeybee, just remember that from the bee’s point of view, dying in the act was absolutely necessary.
Other stinging insects (like wasps) don’t have barbed stingers and can sting with impunity.
Last time I was stung was just below one of my butt cheeks. Hurt a good part of my leg for an hour. RIP idiot; I didn’t do shit to you.