formic acid
A bee sting is acidic. Honey bee venom is slightly acidic and can cause pain, swelling, and redness when injected into the skin.
The acid in substances like vinegar or lemon juice helps to neutralize the alkaline venom in a bee sting, reducing pain and inflammation. This reaction can help alleviate the symptoms of the sting.
Bee venom is slightly acidic, with a pH around 5. Bee stings can cause pain, swelling, and redness due to the venom injected into the skin rather than its pH level.
Bee venom is slightly acidic. It contains various components, such as melittin and phospholipase A2, that can cause pain and inflammation in the skin upon a bee sting.
well.... bee stings are acidic and wasp stings are alkaline. both are insects.
A bee sting is acidic. Honey bee venom is slightly acidic and can cause pain, swelling, and redness when injected into the skin.
A bee sting injects formic acid, which is considered a weak acid. It can cause pain and irritation at the site of the sting.
Formic acid is injected into the skin by a bee sting, causing the pain and inflammation associated with the sting.
because the bee sting has acid and alkalis react
The bee sting venom is a complex mixture of proteins etc. and is not acid.
They can sting.
You put milk on a bee sting because a bee sting is full of acid and by putting an alkali solution on the sting it neutralises the sting (balances it out) so the sting doesnt hurt.
No, a honey bee can only sting once because its stinger is barbed and gets stuck in the skin, causing the bee to die after stinging.
You place an acid onto the wound to neutralise the alkaline bee sting.
A honey bee can only sting once before it dies.
The main acid in bee venom is formic acid, although there are traces of others.
The pH scale of a bee sting is 3.5, so if you get stung by a bee, putting toothpaste on the bee sting should help because the bee sting is weak acid but toothpaste is week alkali so it should balance it out.