Why does a bee sting kill a person? Is this statement true

I often hear old people say that bees should not be caught for fun, because when you catch bees, not only will you be stung by the bees, but the bees will also die at the same time. Many children have this question in their minds: Is it true that a bee will die after stinging a person? Let’s find out why people die after being stung by a bee!

When people encounter bees, if they want to hurt them or drive them away, the bees will sting them out of self-defense instinct. Bees don't like black things, nor do they like special smells such as wine and garlic. So when people wear black clothes or have special smells such as wine and garlic on their bodies, bees will also sting them.

Many people know that if a bee stings a person, the person will die. So what is the reason for this?

In fact, bees use their abdomens to sting people. Those bees that die after stinging people are just worker bees. Because worker bees are incompletely developed, these worker bees are female bees, and the stinger that stings people is actually its own undeveloped ovipositor.

The stinger of a worker bee is composed of two abdominal stingers and one dorsal stinger. These stingers are connected to the large and small venom glands and internal organs. There are several small barbs on the tip of the abdominal stinger of a worker bee.

When a worker bee stings a person, it inserts the stinger into the person's skin and then pulls it out. Because the small barb firmly hooks onto the person's skin, the stinger and part of the internal organs will fall off when the bee flies away, and the bee without internal organs will die. Bees will not sting people unless they have no other choice.

But bees don't die when they sting some hard-skinned insects. Why is that? When a bee stings an insect with a hard skin, it can pull the stinger out of the hole created, so the bee will not die.

I just said that those bees that sting people are worker bees, so what are worker bees?

Worker bees are female bees that lack reproductive ability. In a bee colony, only the queen bee has the ability to reproduce. However, some researchers have found that some worker bees use reproduction to prolong their lives and deceive the queen bee.

Most female bees can eat royal jelly for the first few days when they are larvae, and then they start to eat honey like other bees. Therefore, these worker bees have no reproductive ability and become worker bees. If they continue to eat royal jelly from the larvae, they will eventually become queen bees with reproductive ability.

In a beehive, worker bees can be divided into three physiologically different groups due to their different ages: nurse bees, nest-building bees and honey bees. The main tasks of worker bees are to collect food, secrete wax to build honeycombs, secrete honeycombs to clean nests, and build beehives. All the work in the hive is done by worker bees.

Both worker bees and queen bees develop from fertilized eggs, but there are great differences between the two when compared. As I just said, the queen bee larvae are fed with royal jelly, but the worker bees are not.