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Definintion of barb on a bee?
The barb that is on a bee's stinger is like a razor blade. This will cause the stinger to remain locked into the skin when projected.
Do yellow jackets lose their stinger after they sting?
A worker honey bee's sting is barbed, so after she has thrust it into the victim she cannot pull it back out. When the bee pulls away, the sting remains behind, together with the venom sac and often part of the intestine. The resulting damage is fatal to the bee. A queen bee has a smooth sting so she can withdraw the sting and re-use it. Drones (male bees) don't have a sting.
What is the name of the bee that never loses it stinger?
Of all the stinging hymenoptera (honey bees, bumble bees, wasps, ants and so on) only the honey bee worker has a barbed sting which it loses. All others (including the honey bee queen) keep their stings.
Can you describe a bee stinger?
A bee stinger is a sharp, needle-like structure located at the end of a bee's abdomen. It is used to inject venom into the skin of its target. When a bee stings, the stinger detaches from the bee's body, causing the bee to die shortly after.
Does the bees stingers fall off whilethey are flying?
No, a bee's stinger does not fall off while it is flying. The stinger is designed to pierce the skin of its target and inject venom, and it remains intact during flight. However, when a bee stings a human or animal, the stinger can get lodged in the skin, leading to the bee's death when it tries to fly away.
Does a bee have to lose its stinger to die?
of course not
Can elephants grow there tusks back if lost?
no, once they lose it, it's gone and so is the animal itself. Just like how if a bee loses it's stinger and then dies.
When a hornet stings you does it lose it's stinger?
The only stinging insect that loses it stinger when it stings is the honey bee worker. So, no, the hornet does not lose its stinger.
Definintion of barb on a bee?
The barb that is on a bee's stinger is like a razor blade. This will cause the stinger to remain locked into the skin when projected.
What do bee's use as weapons?
their stinger to opposing threats, note that once a bee has stung its victim the bee shall either lose it's stinger or suffer a quick death.
Where does the bee have a sting?
The stinger is on the back end of the bee, wasp, or hornet.
Do yellow jackets lose their stinger after they sting?
A worker honey bee's sting is barbed, so after she has thrust it into the victim she cannot pull it back out. When the bee pulls away, the sting remains behind, together with the venom sac and often part of the intestine. The resulting damage is fatal to the bee. A queen bee has a smooth sting so she can withdraw the sting and re-use it. Drones (male bees) don't have a sting.
What is the name of the bee that never loses it stinger?
Of all the stinging hymenoptera (honey bees, bumble bees, wasps, ants and so on) only the honey bee worker has a barbed sting which it loses. All others (including the honey bee queen) keep their stings.
Can you describe a bee stinger?
A bee stinger is a sharp, needle-like structure located at the end of a bee's abdomen. It is used to inject venom into the skin of its target. When a bee stings, the stinger detaches from the bee's body, causing the bee to die shortly after.
How do you get a beestinger?
Getting a bee stinger out is not easy. The best way to get out a bee stinger would be with a pair of tweezers.
How do you extract a wasp stinger?
You don't. Unlike a honey bee, a wasp withdraws its stinger after stinging and a honey bee leaves its stinger stuck in your skin.
How does a honeybee protect itself?
It has a stinger to jab at it's enemies. The problem with the stinger, is that if the bee stabs someone with it, the stinger attaches itself to the enemy and is torn from the bee's backside, which results in the death of the bee.
