Bee venom is a complex substance and, although it is acidic, it is not its acidity that causes the pain and swelling. These are caused by other components, mainly by the peptides apamin, which is a mild neurotoxin, and melittin, which damages the surrounding cells. Remember that the venom has been injected under the surface of the skin and deep into the tissues, so any chemical applied to the surface of the skin that is strong enough to have any neutralizing effect will probably do more harm than good.
There are many household remedies for bee stings, but it is doubtful if any of them have any real effect. Most probably rely on the placebo effect.
Assuming you know how bees communicate the presence of food to other bees, this bee (it is likely to be several different bees) is part of a hive where another bee found in that place in your kitchen. It went 'home' and told the other bees that there was food in this place. The others then go to try and collect some of this food; since there is obviously no more food there, they will hang around until it reappears again.
The brightly colored flowers of the lantana attract both bees and butterflies. Lantana grows quickly, producing blue, white, purple, yellow, lilac and orange flowers from summer to early fall.
An insect that can have a black body and yellow tail, flies, and stings may be a hornet. Many species of wasps and hornets match this description.
no, if their stinger breaks off after stinging someone then it ill grow back at rate of about 5.75 inches per month.
Hornets are poisonous but usually if you get stung, it is not a lethal dose of the poison you will receive. If you get stung multiple times all over the body, you could be harmed by the poison.
Yes, there is a bee which lays eggs under human skin. first it gets hold of a female mosquito, lays its eggs on it. Then the mosquito, a blood sucker comes and sucks the blood of a human. The eggs eventually are dropped on the skin . Then the eggs go insinde and grow. See more about this on Animal Planet
If you are allergic to bees, then yes. But otherwise no it isn't
There are no bees that have no purpose at all, but the drone bee is probably the closest. The drone bee has no father - literally. It is hatched from an unfertilized egg, meaning it only has the chromosomes from the mother (Queen) bee.
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Drone bees have no stingers, and they do not gather food. They have antennae that they use to detect (smell) certain chemicals and enlarged eyes. These extra sensory capabilities enable the drone bee to detect an incoming queen bee, and then impregnate the queen bee. The drone bee dies as part of the impregnation process.
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Drone bees live for about 8 weeks. In harsh conditions (cold, etc.), the drone bees are evicted from the hive, whereupon they die due to exposure or to predation.
Pollen is a very important food for bees. They mix pollen with a small amount of nectar to produce a substance called beebread. This protein-rich mixture is then fed to the larvae as they grow.
That the stinger cannot be removed without rupturing the apian lower abdomen is the reason why bees die if they sting people. The insect stinger, structured similar to barbed wire that moves around and around like a screw instead of up and down like a syringe, removes digestive material, glands, muscles, and venom sacs and leaves behind fatally big holes at the end of the abdomen. Bees suffer painful deaths for their barbed stingers, which wasps and yellow jackets lack and which explains why they survive stinging other life forms such as people.
The bee has a barb in its sting .Once it penetrates,the bee cannot withdraw it. The poison sac and the gland are dragged from the body virtually disembowelling the bee. Not one of natures better ideas
Well, when a Queen paper wasp wants to start a hive, she gets wood and mixes it with her saliva to make pulp. She makes about 12 cells, and lays eggs in them. When the workers hatch, she just lets them build the rest of the nest while she makes more eggs.
So she kind of builds the nest, I guess.
Usually queen bees do not lay eggs in winter, however in some warmer climate regions it is possible for bees to find a winter honey source (meaning plants producing flowers in winter). If the winter is mild enough, and there is a winter honey source, a queen may lay a few eggs just to help maintain enough workers to care for the hive. Manzanita is an example plant that can bloom in winter in sufficient quantity to allow the production of a little honey.
Generally, bees slurp up nectar (a sweet liquid that plants produce to attract insects to aid pollination) from plants (particularly some flowers) and use this substance 'nectar' as the main source in the combination of the yellow gooey substance that we consume and name as 'honey'.
This was done by a Grade 5 ( or P5 ) Singaporean schoolgirl.
You cannot make honey from table sugar. Pure honey can only be produced by bees. Some artificial honey can be made using 10 cups of sugar, 50 clover blossoms and 2 cups of orange blossoms.
No they make honey. They collect nectar and pollen.
Wasps may take grasshopper grubs, but to feed to their larvae. Adult wasps don't eat other insects, they live off a sweet liquid rather like honeydew secreted by their larvae.