Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

Why are honeybee stingers barbed?

Ask Science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 months ago

There are many other bee species that can sting Humans and survive, but the European honeybee has a barbed stinger, so it cannot remove the stinger once it’s stung. In attempting to remove the stinger the bee will rupture its lower abdomen and then die.

Why? What is the evolutionary advantage to that?

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I’m pretty sure most creatures in nature die before they are adults.

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