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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Content: One problem with bee stings is that people’s reaction can vary tremendously, even the same person can have very different reactions with the same species of bee at different times, which can be anything from a pin prick sensation with little visible sign to a full swelling or going into anaphylactic shock which can be life threatening if untreated. It’s unreliable to say that the sting of one species of bee is any better or worse than another species because of this. Generally bees that are foraging away from the hive are not aggressive, they only attack unprovoked when near the hive if they think you may be trying to steal their honey or damage their nest. 7.9K views
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Why do bees die when they sting you and you don't give them time to free themselves but wasps don't? The big question here is what the bee is stinging. Bees have barbed stingers and this is advantageous to bees both when dealing with other insects and dealing with mammals, while wasps have straight stingers. When bees are fighting other insects like wasps, that stinger isn’t going to just inject venom into the victim but it’s practically going to disembowel