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Is it true that you can tell the difference between a male and a female bee by looking at their stinger?
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Sort of. A male bee (drone) doesn't have a sting. But in any case a female bee's sting is not easy to see unless she has it extended for stinging.
For honey bees, a better way is just to look at the bee itself. A drone has a wider body than a worker (all workers are female) and has a fairly square end to the abdomen. A worker's abdomen is more pointed. A drone also has much larger eyes than a worker. They almost meet at the top of the head.
You are unlikely to see a queen unless you see inside a beekeeper's hive, but she has a longer abdomen than a worker, and she is slightly wider. A queen's body extends well beyond her wing tips when she has them folded back, whereas with a worker the wing tips nearly reach the end of the abdomen.
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The male's eyes are so much larger because they need to find a potential queen in flight. Second, males are slightly larger than a female worker bee. Third, look very closely at the segmented portion of the bee's antennae.
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Well, the difference is that the worker bees (female) and the queen bee have stingers, as the drones (male) do not. So, if a bee has a stinger, it is a female, and if it doesn't have a stinger, it is a male. Hope I helped! :)
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