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Do bees bite or sting?

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ole

02-05-2002 18:24:32




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Help me settle an argument down at the diner. Are there any species of bees that bite rather than sting. I'll need proof since those guys are hard to convince.




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Bob

02-07-2002 19:22:18




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 Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to ole, 02-05-2002 18:24:32  
I looked in the "Peterson Field Guide for Insects"
There are 3300 North American Types of Bees.
Many have the ability to Sting. This is a defense.Usually of the Queen. All have jaws or mandibles. These are used to feed or build nests for the queen to lay eggs of if not a social group of bees to build thier own nest for eggs.
Nothing is mentioned about Bees biting they sting. although I have see places where the bee sting is refered to as a bee bite which I have found nothing to support bee bites.

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fiddler

08-18-2003 13:37:20




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 Re: Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to Bob, 02-07-2002 19:22:18  
Bees definitely bite if they feel like it. I had the experience recently where a honey bee proceeded to continually bite me (pinching with its mandibles). I kept trying to ignore this because I was playing the fiddle at the time, and the bee was on my bowing hand, and unwilling to move. I didn't want to make it mad enought that it might sting me also. I could clearly see which end of the bee was doing the damage!!!

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rhudson

02-07-2002 03:50:52




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 Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to ole, 02-05-2002 18:24:32  
Hi Ole, sometimes i think that people call anything that looks threating, that flies a "bee". the incorrectness is prevelant in movies. bees do not make the hanging paper hives you always see in cartoons and movies. thats a hornet.

to your question. there are no bees that i know of that bite. the common honey bee could only lick you to death with its tongue. bees are nector collectors.

i have seen a hornet (the type we call a yellow jacket) cut with its teeth a tiny ball of ham from a scrap on a table. it rolled up the ball and flew away. i have always heard that the yellow jacket could and would bite as well as sting. after seeing how quickly it cut up the ham, i beleive it could.

support your local beekeeper, it getting harder and more expensive to keep healthy honey bees. the ag department in our area considers the wild honey bee to play no part in polination because their numbers are so small. crop polination is performed by rental hives of bees.

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Gary

02-06-2002 04:11:51




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 Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to ole, 02-05-2002 18:24:32  
Actually I think they can do both but unlike their
sting you hardly notice their bite.



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Franz

02-05-2002 21:41:50




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 Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to ole, 02-05-2002 18:24:32  
Bees, all denominations, sting. their stinger is barbed, and stays in the target, along with a portion of their abdomen, witch will continue to pump venom. That is why you remove the stinger carefully, with a knife, to preclude additional venom from being squeezed in.
Hornets also sting, but their stinger is NOT barbed. 1 hornet can sting the victim a dozen or more times.

Wasps, paper, mud and others, bite. Their jaws are horizontally opposed, and they take a chunk out of the victim, in addition to imparting venom in the process of biting.
Wasps are meat eaters.

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george

12-02-2003 13:03:25




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 Re: Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to Franz, 02-05-2002 21:41:50  
bees defenitly do not bite. they sting.



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snitkawl

02-06-2002 01:52:27




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 Re: Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to Franz, 02-05-2002 21:41:50  
Wasps do not bite. They, like the hornet and bumblebee, have a slick stinger and can sting multiple times. The venom they inject causes the swelling and itching.
To the best of my knowledge, and I am not an expert, no stinging insect bites as a method of injecting venom. Misquitos(sp?), horseflies, and other bloodsucking insects inject saliva into their victims to prevent the blood from clotting. Their saliva is what causes the reaction.

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Lew

02-05-2002 21:33:36




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 Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to ole, 02-05-2002 18:24:32  
Have you all agreed as to what critters you consider as bees? The critter that most people do not question as to it being a bee is what I know as a honey bee. When it does its thing it backs up to do it and leaves evidence behind. However, I have heard of a mosquito (for example, the Minnesota state wildlife animal) that is as big as a bee and it bits. Hope this help ease the sting or itch, which ever you got. Lew

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John in Maryand

02-05-2002 19:21:43




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 Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to ole, 02-05-2002 18:24:32  
Check this out. Hope it helps.



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judy martinelli

09-19-2002 17:16:42




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 Re: Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to John in Maryand, 02-05-2002 19:21:43  

I REALLY NEED TO KNOW, DO HONEY BEES BITE OR STING?



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John in Maryland

02-05-2002 19:22:43




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 Re: Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to John in Maryand, 02-05-2002 19:21:43  
dang,the link didn't show up. cut and paste it.

http://www.panjokutch.com/Health/general/insect%20bite.htm



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G Taylor cures

02-06-2002 08:24:39




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 Re: Re: Re: Do bees bite or sting? in reply to John in Maryland, 02-05-2002 19:22:43  
While some of that advice is valid a couple of old wives tales there fall into the "sickness bad,cure worse" catagory.



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