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2) What happens when an Africanized bee stings you? What do you do if this happens?
3) What is the best way to avoid bees and being stung by them?
Answers:
1) It can inject more venom.
2) About a thousand more will try to sting you.
3) stay away from them and don't antagonize them.
4) get to a doctor immediately because the swelling can occule your airway and cause death.
Other answers:
1) I believe the bee loses its stinger so that more of the "poison" will continue to pump into you, so it's best to remove it asap (have you noticed that there is a small sac just behind the stinger in the part that detaches that continues to expand and contract?)
2) The sting of an African bee is no different than that of European honey bees (the kind that we mostly have in the U.S.). It's just that as a group, African bees are more vicious about defending their hives. Out gathering nectar, they are about like all other bees---focused mainly on gathering nectar.
3) Stay away from areas with many flowers in bloom (opt for mowed areas). You may live in an area between a hive (or beekeeper's concentration of hives) and its main source of nectar (a field for example).
4) I'm not sure on this one, but what I'm told about caterpillar barbs/ "hairs" that shed and cause whelps on my skin is that the eyes are a different type of tissue and don't react the same as skin does. Also, I've been told that the eyes thus would not lead to shock, since they don't react the same as the skin does (swelling, etc.). I was stung in the eye once but nothing happened, but then I'm not allergic to bee stings, so it'd be best to ask a doctor about such a case.
1) I believe the bee loses its stinger so that more of the "poison" will continue to pump into you, so it's best to remove it asap (have you noticed that there is a small sac just behind the stinger in the part that detaches that continues to expand and contract?)
2) The sting of an African bee is no different than that of European honey bees (the kind that we mostly have in the U.S.). It's just that as a group, African bees are more vicious about defending their hives. Out gathering nectar, they are about like all other bees---focused mainly on gathering nectar.
3) Stay away from areas with many flowers in bloom (opt for mowed areas). You may live in an area between a hive (or beekeeper's concentration of hives) and its main source of nectar (a field for example).
4) I'm not sure on this one, but what I'm told about caterpillar barbs/ "hairs" that shed and cause whelps on my skin is that the eyes are a different type of tissue and don't react the same as skin does. Also, I've been told that the eyes thus would not lead to shock, since they don't react the same as the skin does (swelling, etc.). I was stung in the eye once but nothing happened, but then I'm not allergic to bee stings, so it'd be best to ask a doctor about such a case.
I do not know.