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What exactly is it that makes a bee sting hurt? Is it a kind of venom they put in you? |
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Author: ecolibrium899 |
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The main reason a bee sting hurts is the toxin melittin as well as other lesser components, such as a stinger piercing your skin. Bees are the only insects with a barbed stinger which remains lodged in a person's skin. Due to these barbs bees die after they sting. The point of the stinger's barbs is not to kill the bee, when the stinger says in the skin the poison sack also stays and continues to pump toxin into the wound after the bee has flown away to find a place to die.These barbs only get caught in the relatively tough skin of a mammal, when bees sting other insects they can pull their stingers out and live to sting another day. |
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