Please share an interesting fact about dealing with bee stings.

Bee: Bee stings: melittin injected into skin by a bee causes significant sharp pain.

Bee: Bee stings: intense pain dissipates w/i minutes w marked reduction of pain w/in a couple hours.

Bee: Pain from a bee sting goes from sharp to dull and is usually resolved within three days or so.

Bee: Only 1 to 2 people out of 1, 000 are allergic to bee stings.

Bee: Bee stings: the toxic dose (ld50) for honey bee venom is 8.6 stings/ pound of body weight.

Honey: Honey bee sting: an average healthy (non-allergic) adult would take >1, 000 stings for risk of dying.

Bee/Wasp: Bee/wasp stings: insects that stings are hymenoptera.

Honey: Honey bee sting: the barbed stinger will remain in your skin even after the bee flies off.

The: The africanized (killer) honey bee ; the european honey bee both have the same venom composition.

Africanized: Africanized (killer) honey bees defend a larger area surrounding their nest than european honey bees.

Africanized: Africanized honey bees attack faster ; w larger numbers than their cousin, the european honey bee.

Wasp/Bee: Wasp/bee stings: delayed renal insufficiency from multiple stings can sometimes be lethal.

Social: Social hymenopterans (yellow jackets, bumble bees, honey bees) aggressively defend their nests.

Bee: Bee / wasp stings: anaphylactic reactions can start right after a sting or up to 30 minutes later.

Bee: Bee / wasp stings: yellow jackets are wasps.

Bee: Bee / wasp stings: yellow jackets (wasp) can sting and bite.

The: The yellow jacket is a wasp (not a bee).

Bumblebees: Bumblebees and yellow jackets both lack barbs on their stingers, meaning they can sting repeatedly.

Female: Female yellow jackets release pheromones that signal other yellow jackets to sting at the same time.

Hornet: Hornet stings are more painful than other wasps because their venom contains 5% acetylcholine.

The: The asian giant hornet has the most dangerous venom of the wasps ; leads to many deaths every year.

Wasp: Wasp stings: both yellow jackets ; hornets release attack pheromones.

Neither: Neither hornets nor yellow jackets have barbs on their stingers -so they can sting repeatedly.

Wasp: Wasp stings: marked pain from a yellow jacket sting may be experienced for 1 to 2 hours.

Wasp: Wasp stings: swelling from yellow jacket sting can ^ for over 24 hours ; last for up to a full week.

Wasp: Wasp stings: redness from yellow jackets stings often lasts for three days.

Yellow: Yellow jackets eat insects ; spiders, but watch out because they are attracted to human food too.

Avoid: Avoid wasp stings: yellow jackets most often nest in the ground.

Wasp: Wasp stings: there is no barb on a yellow jacket stinger – so they can remove it after stinging.

Wasp: Wasp stings: it is the venom that causes the pain – not the sting.

Wasp: Wasp stings: normal sx's include pain, itching, swelling, redness ; tenderness of affected area.

Wasp/: Wasp/ bee severe allergic reactions: swelling of tongue, mouth, lips, throat ; difficulty swallowing.

Wasp/: Wasp/ bee severe allergic reactions: difficulty breathing, wheezing, chest tightness ; hives.

Wasp/: Wasp/ bee severe allergic reactions: generalized weakness, confusion ; slurring of speech.

Ground: Ground hornet (aka cicada killer wasp) are not usually aggressive to people.

Wasp: Wasp stings: hornets / wasps do not die after they sting (unlike most bees).

Yellow: Yellow jack stings: allergic symptoms can occur up to 20 hours after sting.

Bee: Bee stingers are barbed and become dislodged in the skin after a sting.

Ignore: Honey bees sting only once and then die. Hornets, wasps, & yellow jackets can sting more than once.

Ignore: The stinger needs to be removed. After that cold compress +/- benadryl (diphenhydramine) is helpful.

Ignore: Bee venom is 88% water. The rest is constituted of at least 21 different active "ingredients.".