Title: Bee Stings - how honey bees and bumblebees sting
Headings: Bee Sting
Bee Sting
Bee stings – how honey bees and bumblebees sting
Technical Stuff – with thanks to Thor Lehnert of Bioenvironmental Bee Laboratory, Beltsville, Md. 20705
All about bee stings!
Good and Bad News!
The Threat of the “Killer Bees”

Content: Your best protection against the Africanized bee is to understand how it behaves and react accordingly. Bees “swarm” to establish new hives in the spring and fall. Bees are most active then. You may find bees setting up housekeeping where you live literally overnight. Individual bees gathering pollen on flowers or masses of bees clinging together in swarms generally will not bother you. However, bees are more likely to be defensive after they have established a colony and started raising young. For the non-allergic individual, bee stings are reasonably harmless – it is estimated that if attacted by a swarm of bees an average non-allergic male would need at least 1,500 separate bee stings before the venom becomes life threatening (10 stings per pound of bodyweight). That being said, it would hurt like crazy! Are wasp stings acidic and bee stings alkali?