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The ones I deal with only ever stung/bit me twice despite dealing with them all year by the minute. Do the stings/bites have any difference? My thumb feels felt like it got a flu shot jab, but it didn't hurt after five minutes except for a very mild flu shot kind of soreness. No stinger in the skin either, at least none I can see.
I don't believe there's a venom difference. They got called "killer bees" because they tend to swarm people much more often than European, not because an individual sting is worse.
With that reaction, and no stinger, are you sure it was a honey bee? They pretty much always leave a stinger.
There's a tiny, tiny black spot on my thumb, like the size of a dust mite due to how small it is. I'm lucky with my glasses I can even see it, but I don't know if that's the stinger or just a dent it left. The bee did fly away unharmed afterward.
It sounds like the stinger did not come out when you were stung, so you were probably stung by a wasp rather than a bee.
Well shoot, I always was taught wasps were the ones I should be worried about health-wise. Seeing this to be wrong, now I'm having thoughts.
When the stinger comes out, it's basically the whole back end of the bee. It's kind of fiendish: the venom sack and a little muscle are in the very end of their butt. The stinger has a barb, so when they stick it in you, and you brush them off, the whole assembly rips off the bee and the muscle keeps pumping the venom into you. The bee dies.
So it's very obvious if the stinger came off.