Why do bees die when they sting?? ๐ต๐ฎ
You feel pain, itching and annoyance when bees stings. That's because the bees jabs its barbed stinger into your skin and release some venom, which contains proteins that cause pain and can affect your immune system and skin cells. Figure 1: Bee stings apparatus, credits: frontiers But it's nothing compared to what the poor tiny bee has to go through. You'll be fine after a few hours, but the bee won't๐ต๐ฎ . Honey bees don't strike people unless they feel threatened or if you step on them mistakenly. The real issue is that the bee can't get its barb stinger out of your skin after stinging you. The only way to break free is to leave the stinger. The stinger is not only a good defense mechanism, but it also contains parts of the bee's digestive tract, nerves, and muscles, which are all necessary for the bee to function properly. So, after losing everything, this tiny creature perishes. Autotomy is the process of leaving a body component behind as a sort o...