Title: What are the symptoms of a bee sting? - Quora
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What are the symptoms of a bee sting?
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How long does the pain of a bee sting last?
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Content: I am not for absolutely 100% sure how long that pheromone sticks around, (we mask it with smoke…) but after I get stung another reason I wash the site well with soap and water...it seems, may be coincidence, my girls are wary of me long afterwards. 19.2K views
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Jay Keller
, Backyard apiarist for 10+ years, keeping 2 hives and producing honey and wax. Updated 1 year ago · Author has 72 answers and 94.7K answer views
What does a bee sting feel like? My average is about 5 or 6 stings per season after 12+ years of backyard-beekeeping, so I have a perspective on this question. My comments apply only to the average person who is not seriously allergic to bee venom. About five-percent of the population is said by experts to be somewhat allergic, with one-percent having a possibility of life-threatening reactions. The pain of a bee sting is almost entirely from the venom. Absent venom, in most spots you would hardly feel the sting as it punctures your skin, much like the feeling (or non-feeling, in many cases) of a mosquito bite. Conversely, if a droplet of bee venom drips out of a bee on to your skin, it feels much the same as actually getting stung, although it is likely to be somewhat milder in immediate effects as well as after-effects. I’ve had this happen, for example, when a bee stung me through a leather glove.