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  2. Severe reaction to a bee sting as a child signals how ... - AOL

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    A 2004 study from Johns Hopkins University found that, unless they’d received allergy treatments for bee stings, a significant percentage of those who’d had severe reactions to bee stings as ...

  3. Bee sting - Wikipedia

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    A bee sting is the wound and pain caused by the stinger of a female bee puncturing skin. Bee stings differ from insect bites, with the venom of stinging insects having considerable chemical variation. The reaction of a person to a bee sting may vary according to the bee species.

  4. Stinger - Wikipedia

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    The barbs of a honey bee's attack are only suicidal if the skin is elastic, as is characteristic of vertebrates such as birds and mammals; honey bees can sting other insects repeatedly without dying. [6] The sting of nearly all other bees and other sting-bearing organisms is not barbed and can be used to sting repeatedly.

  5. Andrenidae - Wikipedia

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    The Andrenidae (commonly known as mining bees) are a large, nearly cosmopolitan family of solitary, ground-nesting bees. Most of the family's diversity is located in temperate or arid areas (warm temperate xeric). It includes some enormous genera (e.g., Andrena with over 1300 species, and Perdita with over 700).

  6. Mosquitoes, bees, ticks and more: How to treat bites and ...

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    In the case of a bee sting, he recommends making sure the stinger is removed — use the back of a knife to scrape it off rather than tweezers, which can pinch the stinger and release more venom ...

  7. Carpenter bees can sting you and drill into wood. Here are ...

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    Carpenter bees are different from honey bees and can cause damage this spring and summer. Here’s what you need to know.

  8. Stingless bee - Wikipedia

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    These species bear a variety of names, including Australian native honey bees, native bees, sugar-bag bees, and sweat bees (because they land on people's skin to collect sweat). [115] The various stingless species look quite similar, with the two most common species, Tetragonula carbonaria and Austroplebeia australis , displaying the greatest ...

  9. Schmidt sting pain index - Wikipedia

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    The duration of the pain of insect stings categorized into Pain Level 1 generally is five minutes or less. [2] Many small bees are categorized into a pain level of 1, with their venom containing polypeptides such as melittin, apamin, and MCD peptide. Melittin is the main toxin of bee venom, and it damages red blood cells and white blood cells.