Do Male Bumble Bees Sting?

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robert answered
The male bumble bee does not and can not sting. They do not have a stinger. The stinger on a male bumble bee is their reproductive organ. A male bumble bee has a yellow or white spot on their head between their eyes. Female bumble bees can sting and will sting over and over. They do not lose their stinger when they sting. Even the females are docile and will not sting unless they are bothered. So leave them alone. Don't kill them. They are the reason we have fresh fruits each year.
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It's usually the queen bee and the worker female bees that sting. Unlike honey bees their sting is not barbed which means that they do not die after stinging. They are rather peace loving creatures and will attack only when they sense danger and will act defensively. Male bumble bees do not sting because they do not have a sting! The part that becomes the sting in female bumble bees becomes the genital capsule and is used in mating.
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Male honey bees called drones don't sting either....my parents owned an apiary the entire time I grew up and we used to let the drones crawl all over us and never once got stung.....the female workers on the other hand with definitely sting you if you bother them or step on them or grab them by mistake and they die after they sting you. Bumblebees don't die after they sting you.
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Anonymous commented
How can you tell the difference??? How do you know if it will or will not sting one of the children in the garden? I am aware that bees are important but the terrify me.. I dont want my children to have the same fear factor but i just dont want them stung either?? Is their any obvious difference between the males that dont sting and the females that do!????? Help
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The main way not to get stung is to respect bees and wasps and not upset them by flapping and swatting at them. They don't want to harm you unless they feel you are threatening them by getting too close to their nest or flailing wildly at them whenever they get a bit close. Ignore them and they will go about their business peacefully. Honey bees are, on the whole, more aggressive than bumblebees, which really do need to be provoked quite badly before they'll sting you.
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male bees don't sting they have male genital capsule but the queens and workers do !
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Yes a bumblebee stings. A bumblebee doesn't die after it stings you but a honey bee does.
 
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Are you sure? I'm pretty sure bumblebees die after stinging.
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Charming Gurl commented
Well, if a books lies then I must be not sure. But if a book doesn't lie then I'm 100% sure.
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Bumblebees don't die after stinging (and yes, it is only the females that can sting), as they have a barbless sting like wasps. Honey bees, though, have a barb on their sting, so it's difficult for them to extract and it's ripped out of them causing subsequent death. Bear in mind that honey bee nests will contain tens of thousands of bees whereas a bumblebee nest will number in the low hundreds, so one worker honeybee is more expendable than a worker bumblebee.

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