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Yes, honey bees can sting if they are females but no, they cannot if they are males.
Specifically, male bees (Apis spp) are called drones and females are either queens or workers. The male only has a barb in its sex organ, which causes it to die after mating. Females have barbed, rear-end stingers which can be used once by a worker bee and more than once by the queen bee.
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Does an allergy to bee stings mean an allergy to honey?
No, allergy to bee stings does not mean that there is also an allergy to honey. The two allergens are not related.
Are there any kind of bees which can survive stinging an attacker?
Only honey bee workers die after stinging because they lose their barbed sting in the victim. Honey bee queens and all bumble bees have smooth stings and can withdraw them and will survive.
Can a person who is allergic to bee stings eat honey?
Yes! Actually, you can even put honey on a bee sting to reduce the pain.
In the book sign of the beaver which kind of bee stings Matt?
In the book Matt The Sign of the Beaver Matt gets stung by European honey bee's. But Matt gets stung by a worker bee.
Do killer bees die when they sting you?
yesAccording to Wikipedia, worker honey bees die after stinging a mammal once, due to its barbed stinger which becomes lodged in the 'victim's flesh, torn from the body of the honey bee. However the barbed stinger of the honey bee can safely withdraw after stinging another bee, thus leaving the honey bee alive to protect its hive again.All others are capable of multiple stings, including yellow jackets, which have slightly barbed stings, and honey bee queens, which are not barbed at all.
What can you get from a bee hive?
honey and bees wax And lots of stings maybe even pollen
How many honey bees will it take to sting a man to death?
1000 bee stings
If a wasp would die if it stung a man?
No, a wasp doesn't die if it stings but a honey bee does.
What are facts about the honey bee?
If it stings, it dies due to the fact that a lot of its' internal organs come out with the stinger.
What is the name of the bee that never loses it stinger?
Of all the stinging hymenoptera (honey bees, bumble bees, wasps, ants and so on) only the honey bee worker has a barbed sting which it loses. All others (including the honey bee queen) keep their stings.
When a hornet stings you does it lose it's stinger?
The only stinging insect that loses it stinger when it stings is the honey bee worker. So, no, the hornet does not lose its stinger.
What is the poison of honey bee?
Yes. Bee venom is poisonous but, ignoring any possible allergic reaction, the sting from a small number of bees will not be enough to do any harm. But stings from a large number of bees, in the order of hundreds, can prove fatal. The record number of stings one person has received and still survived was 2,243.
