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Hobby beekeeper here. Worker bees dies when they sting a person, because the stinger and venom pump remain when they fly off, ripping their abdomen open. The
by cruftbox 2y ago
Hobby beekeeper here.
Worker bees dies when they sting a person, because the stinger and venom pump remain when they fly off, ripping their abdomen open.
The purpose of this is that the venom pump continues to function after they have left, making the sting as painful as possible.
Honeybees are a superorganism, where the survival of the colony supersedes the survival of any individual bee.
- isityouyesitsme 2y agoyour comment was excellent. I couldn't read past the article's pretentious opening.
- majgr 2y agoSometimes I observed how it worked after being stung by a bee. It is better to remove sting using force from one side. When two fingertips are used to remove a sting all venom is being pushed into the wound.