If you are stung by a bee, it will be a worker bee because queens don't normally leave the hive -- and the drones don't have a sting. To a human, a bee sting is usually just a painful nuisance, but a very small creature it can be very dangerous. To another insect it is fatal.
A worker bee is about 1 centimeter in size.
A worker bee.
Only in rare cases will a bee sting without being seriously provoked and many species of bee don't sting at all.The sting of a Honeybee (worker) is barbed, so it remains under your skin after it has stung you. When the bee attempts to fly off her intestines and some muscles are pulled out with the poison sac. The muscles make the poison pump into the skin.
The male workers are called 'drones', females are simply called 'female worker bees'.
Depending on the species, a worker honey bee is between 13 and 17 mm long.
Bee stings inject a toxin or venom called apitoxin, which is a bitter colourless liquid. Bee venom causes local inflammation and acts as an anticoagulant. It is not a poison.
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Worker bees die after they sting because their stingers are barbed and get pulled out of their bodies. Their poison sacks, and part of their intestines are pulled out along with it killing the bee.
Queen bees have the same ability to sting as worker bees. The big difference is that the queen's sting is smooth, so she can withdraw it easily.Read more: Do_queen_bees_have_poison
A laying worker bee.
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