How do i tell the difference between a hornet sting and a bee sting?
Question:other than looking at the insect, of course.. i thought it was a regular bee, but it turns out i have 2 stings, one on my hand and one on my foot.. i thought it was a regular honey bee at first, but this morning realized the was a hornets nest close to where i was wounded...
Answers:
hornets and wasps can multiple sting
bees can only sting once .after it has stung it's stinger stays in you and the poison sack keeps pumping in the poison.
for the bee, stinging is a death sentence as it flys away basically it abdomen pulls out.
so if it was a bee it would almost certanly leave a stinger in you
hornets or wasps have a sting probe no poison,bees have a poison sack that excretes on puncture a bee will then die and a hornet may not
don't know where she got the idea hornets have no poison,, obviously she has never been stung!! are you talking of hornets or wasps?? bees give you an owee with selling and redness goes down after a few hours,,, wasps can burn bad with redness and swelling,,last a couple of days,,,, hornets will mess up your week bad!! like a wasp but way more potent and painful...bees usually do not sting away from the hive,, unless messed with!! hornets a mean little boogers and will chase you where ever,,, just to get a piece of you
I wonder how you didn't see the critter that did the dirt.
Kind of makes me think of a spider bite that you might
get while sleeping. I have known people who called a
wasp a bee or yellow jacket a hornet. Wasps are reddish
brown an normally go for the eyes. They are more
aggressive in July and Aug. Hornets are larger and black.
some have white on there head. there nests can be as big
as a 5 gallon bucket and has only one opening with 1 to 10
guards around it. Yellow jackets live in holes in the ground.
and as the name implies are mostly yellow. If you already
knew all that, sorry I wasted your time. Otherwise I hope
this helped, and I would look at the wounds very close and
see if I could find 2 punctures very close together.
Hope it gets OK.
i think hornet bstings are far more painful than bee stings... at least for me
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